Almond furnace () A kind of furnace used in refining, to separate the metal from cinders and other foreign matter. |
Ash-furnace (n.) Alt. of Ash-oven |
Electro-metallurgy (n.) The act or art precipitating a metal electro-chemical action, by which a coating is deposited, on a prepared surface, as in electroplating and electrotyping |
Furnace (n.) An inclosed place in which heat is produced by the combustion of fuel, as for reducing ores or melting metals, for warming a house, for baking pottery, etc. |
Furnace (n.) A place or time of punishment, affiction, or great trial |
Furnace (n.) To throw out, or exhale, as from a furnace |
Hearth (n.) The pavement or floor of brick, stone, or metal in a chimney, on which a fire is made |
Hearth (n.) The house itself, as the abode of comfort to its inmates and of hospitality to strangers |
Hearth (n.) The floor of a furnace, on which the material to be heated lies, or the lowest part of a melting furnace, into which the melted material settles. |
Metallurgy (n.) The art of working metals, comprehending the whole process of separating them from other matters in the ore, smelting, refining, and parting them |
Pernot furnace () A reverberatory furnace with a circular revolving hearth, -- used in making steel. |
-type (n.) A combining form signifying impressed form |
Type (n.) The mark or impression of something |
Type (n.) Form or character impressed |
Type (n.) A figure or representation of something to come |
Type (n.) That which possesses or exemplifies characteristic qualities |
Type (n.) A general form or structure common to a number of individuals |
Type (n.) The original object, or class of objects, scene, face, or conception, which becomes the subject of a copy |
Type (n.) A simple compound, used as a mode or pattern to which other compounds are conveniently regarded as being related, and from which they may be actually or theoretically derived. |
Type (n.) A raised letter, figure, accent, or other character, cast in metal or cut in wood, used in printing. |
Type (n.) Such letters or characters, in general, or the whole quantity of them used in printing, spoken of collectively |
Type (v. t.) To represent by a type, model, or symbol beforehand |
Type (v. t.) To furnish an expression or copy of |
Woodbury-type (n.) A process in photographic printing, in which a relief pattern in gelatin, which has been hardened after certain operations, is pressed upon a plate of lead or other soft metal. An intaglio impression in thus produced, from which pictures may be directly printed, but by a slower process than in common printing. |
Woodbury-type (n.) A print from such a plate. |
blast furnace | a furnace for smelting of iron from iron oxide ores, combustion is intensified by a blast of air |
electric furnace | any furnace in which the heat is provided by an electric current |
fireplace hearth open fireplace | an open recess in a wall at the base of a chimney where a fire can be built, the fireplace was so large you could walk inside it, he laid a fire in the hearth and lit it, the hearth was black with the charcoal of many fires |
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 |
hearth fireside | home symbolized as a part of the fireplace, driven from hearth and home, fighting in defense of their firesides |
n-type semiconductor | a semiconductor in which electrical conduction is due chiefly to the movement of electrons |
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 |
p-type semiconductor | a semiconductor in which electrical conduction is due chiefly to the movement of positive holes |
pump-type pliers | a type of pliers |
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 |
type | a small metal block bearing a raised character on one end, produces a printed character when inked and pressed on paper, he dropped a case of type, so they made him pick them up |
type slug slug | a strip of type metal used for spacing |
body type somatotype | a category of physique |
asthenic type ectomorphy | slender, weak, and lightweight |
endomorphy pyknic type | round, fat, and heavy |
athletic type mesomorphy | muscular and big-boned |
blood group blood type | human blood cells (usually just the red blood cells) that have the same antigens |
A type A group A | the blood group whose red cells carry the A antigen |
B type B group B | the blood group whose red cells carry the B antigen |
AB type AB group AB | the blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens |
O type O group O | the blood group whose red cells carry neither the A nor B antigens, people with type O blood are universal donors |
Rh-positive blood type Rh positive | the blood group (approximately % of people) whose red cells have the Rh factor (Rh antigen) |
Rh-negative blood type Rh-negative blood Rh negative | the blood group whose red cells lack the Rh factor (Rh antigen) |
type | a subdivision of a particular kind of thing, what type of sculpture do you prefer? |
architectural style style of architecture type of architecture | architecture as a kind of art form |
type specimen holotype | the original specimen from which the description of a new species is made |
metallurgy | the science and technology of metals |
powder metallurgy | the metallurgy of powdered metals, how to produce solid metal objects from powdered metal by compaction and sintering |
type | all of the tokens of the same symbol, the word `element' contains five different types of character |
type | printed characters, small type is hard to read |
type family | a complete set of type suitable for printing text |
roman roman type roman letters roman print | a typeface used in ancient Roman inscriptions |
type genus | (biology) genus from which the name of a family or subfamily is formed, it is not necessarily the most representative genus but often the largest or best known or earliest described |
type | (biology) the taxonomic group whose characteristics are used to define the next higher taxon |
type species | (biology) the species that best exemplifies the essential characteristics of the genus to which it belongs |
hearth fireside | an area near a fireplace (usually paved and extending out into a room), they sat on the hearth and warmed themselves before the fire |
Alpine glacier Alpine type of glacier | a glacier that moves down from a high valley |
Piedmont glacier Piedmont type of glacier | a type of glaciation characteristic of Alaska, large valley glaciers meet to form an almost stagnant sheet of ice |
character eccentric type case | a person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities), a real character, a strange character, a friendly eccentric, the capable type, a mental case |
hearth money Peter's pence | an annual contribution made by Roman Catholics to support the papal see |
open-hearth process | a process for making steel using an open-hearth furnace |
type I diabetes insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus IDDM juvenile-onset diabetes juvenile diabetes growth-onset diabetes ketosis-prone diabetes ketoacidosis-prone diabetes autoimmune diabetes | severe diabetes mellitus with an early onset, characterized by polyuria and excessive thirst and increased appetite and weight loss and episodic ketoacidosis, diet and insulin injections are required to control the disease |
d type II diabetes non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus NIDDM non-insulin-dependent diabetes ketosisesistant diabetes mellitus ketosisesistant diabetes ketoacidosisesistant diabetes mellitus ketoacidosisesistant diabetes adult-onset diabetes mellitus adult-onset diabetes maturity-onset diabetes mellitus maturity-onset diabetes mature-onset diabetes | mild form of diabetes mellitus that develops gradually in adults, can be precipitated by obesity or severe stress or menopause or other factors, can usually be controlled by diet and hypoglycemic agents without injections of insulin |