| corner kick | a free kick from the corner awarded to the other side when a player has sent the ball behind his own goal line |
| amen corner | area reserved for persons leading the responsive `amens' |
| blast furnace | a furnace for smelting of iron from iron oxide ores, combustion is intensified by a blast of air |
| blind corner | a street corner that you cannot see around as you are driving |
chimney corner
inglenook | a corner by a fireplace |
corner
street corner
turning point | the intersection of two streets, standing on the corner watching all the girls go by |
| corner quoin | (architecture) solid exterior angle of a building, especially one formed by a cornerstone |
| corner nook | an interior angle formed by two meeting walls, a piano was in one corner of the room |
| corner pocket | a pocket at the corner of a billiard table |
| corner post | a square post supporting a structural member at the corner of a building |
| electric furnace | any furnace in which the heat is provided by an electric current |
| furnace | an enclosed chamber in which heat is produced to heat buildings, destroy refuse, smelt or refine ores, etc. |
furnace lining
refractory | lining consisting of material with a high melting point, used to line the inside walls of a furnace |
| furnace room | a room (usually in the basement of a building) that contains a furnace for heating the building |
| gas furnace | a furnace that burns gas |
oil burner
oil furnace | a furnace that burns oil |
| open-hearth furnace | a furnace for making steel in which the steel is placed on a shallow hearth and flames of burning gas and hot air play over it |
| reverberatory furnace | a furnace in which the material that is being treated is heated indirectly by flames that are directed at the roof and walls of the furnace |
solar dish
solar collector
solar furnace | a concave mirror that concentrates the rays of the sun, can produce high temperatures |
Stassano furnace
electric-arc furnace | an electric furnace in which an electric arc provides the source of heat for making steel |
| tank furnace | furnace into one end of which a batch of measured raw materials is shoveled and from the other end molten glass is obtained |
| corner | the point where two lines meet or intersect, the corners of a rectangle |
| corner | a place off to the side of an area, he tripled to the rightfield corner, the southeastern corner of the Mediterranean |
| corner | a remote area, in many corners of the world they still practice slavery |
| corner | the point where three areas or surfaces meet or intersect, the corners of a cube |
| corner | a projecting part where two sides or edges meet, he knocked off the corners |
| end man corner man | a man at one end of line of performers in a minstrel show, carries on humorous dialogue with the interlocutor |
recess
recession
niche
corner | a small concavity |
| corner box | a predicament from which a skillful or graceful escape is impossible, his lying got him into a tight corner |
| corner | a temporary monopoly on a kind of commercial trade, a corner on the silver market |
| corner | turn a corner, the car corners |
| corner tree | force a person or an animal into a position from which he cannot escape |
| corner | gain control over, corner the gold market |
discharged
dismissed
fired
laid-off
pink-slipped | having lost your job |
coal-fired
coal-burning | fueled by burning coal, a coal-fired ship |
wood-fired
wood-burning | fueled by wood, a wood-burning stove' |
| oil-fired | fueled by burning oil, an oil-fired furnace |
| all-fired | extreme, used as an intensifier, why is he in such an all-fired hurry? |
clandestine
cloak-and-dagger
hole-and-corner(a)
hugger-mugger
hush-hush
secret surreptitious
undercover
underground | conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods, clandestine intelligence operations, cloak-and-dagger activities behind enemy lines, hole-and-corner intrigue, secret missions, a secret agent, secret sales of arms, surreptitious mobilization of troops, an undercover investigation, underground resistance |
catacorner
cata-cornered
catercorner
cater-cornered
catty-corner
catty-cornered
kitty-corner
kitty-cornered | slanted across a polygon on a diagonal line, set off in a catty-corner direction across the vacant lot |
hole-and-corner
hole-in-corner | relating to the peripheral and unimportant aspects of life, a hole-and-corner life in some obscure community- H.G.Wells |
bloody
damn
all-fired | extremely, you are bloody right, Why are you so all-fired aggressive? |