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 |
-blast
() A suffix or terminal formative, used principally in biological terms, and signifying growth, formation |
Blast
(n.) A violent gust of wind. |
Blast
(n.) A forcible stream of air from an orifice, as from a bellows, the mouth, etc. Hence: The continuous blowing to which one charge of ore or metal is subjected in a furnace |
Blast
(n.) The exhaust steam from and engine, driving a column of air out of a boiler chimney, and thus creating an intense draught through the fire |
Blast
(n.) The sound made by blowing a wind instrument |
Blast
(n.) A sudden, pernicious effect, as if by a noxious wind, especially on animals and plants |
Blast
(n.) The act of rending, or attempting to rend, heavy masses of rock, earth, etc., by the explosion of gunpowder, dynamite, etc. |
Blast
(n.) A flatulent disease of sheep. |
Blast
(v. t.) To injure, as by a noxious wind |
Blast
(v. t.) Hence, to affect with some sudden violence, plague, calamity, or blighting influence, which destroys or causes to fail |
Blast
(v. t.) To confound by a loud blast or din. |
Blast
(v. t.) To rend open by any explosive agent, as gunpowder, dynamite, etc. |
Blast
(v. i.) To be blighted or withered |
Blast
(v. i.) To blow |
Blast pipe
() The exhaust pipe of a steam engine, or any pipe delivering steam or air, when so constructed as to cause a blast. |
Cement
(n.) Any substance used for making bodies adhere to each other, as mortar, glue, etc. |
Cement
(n.) A kind of calcined limestone, or a calcined mixture of clay and lime, for making mortar which will harden under water. |
Cement
(n.) The powder used in cementation. See Cementation, n., 2. |
Cement
(n.) Bond of union |
Cement
(n.) The layer of bone investing the root and neck of a tooth |
Cement
(n.) To unite or cause to adhere by means of a cement. |
Cement
(n.) To unite firmly or closely. |
Cement
(n.) To overlay or coat with cement |
Cement
(v. i.) To become cemented or firmly united |
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 |
Hot blast
() See under Blast. |
Pernot furnace
() A reverberatory furnace with a circular revolving hearth, -- used in making steel. |
Portland cement
() A cement having the color of the Portland stone of England, made by calcining an artificial mixture of carbonate of lime and clay, or sometimes certain natural limestones or chalky clays. It contains a large proportion of clay, and hardens under water. |
Water cement
() Hydraulic cement. |
Whirl-blast
(n.) A whirling blast or wind. |
| blast | a very long fly ball |
solo homer
solo blast | a home run with no runners on base |
| blast furnace | a furnace for smelting of iron from iron oxide ores, combustion is intensified by a blast of air |
concrete mixer
cement mixer | a machine with a large revolving drum in which cement is mixed with other materials to make concrete |
| 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 |
cementum
cement | a specialized bony substance covering the root of a tooth |
fire
attack
flak
flack
blast | intense adverse criticism, Clinton directed his fire at the Republican Party, the government has come under attack, don't give me any flak |
good time
blast | a highly pleasurable or exciting experience, we had a good time at the party, celebrating after the game was a blast |
shock wave
blast wave | a region of high pressure travelling through a gas at a high velocity, the explosion created a shock wave |
bang
clap
eruption blast bam | a sudden very loud noise |
| blast | an explosion (as of dynamite) |
| bomb blast | the explosion of a bomb |
backblast
back-blast | backfire from a recoilless weapon |
gust
blast
blow | a strong current of air, the tree was bent almost double by the gust |
| blast trauma | injury caused the explosion of a bomb (especially in enclosed spaces) |
| cement | something that hardens to act as adhesive material |
| rubber cement | an adhesive made by dissolving unvulcanized rubber in a solvent like benzene or naphtha |
| cement | a building material that is a powder made of a mixture of calcined limestone and clay, used with water and sand or gravel to make concrete and mortar |
| cement | concrete pavement is sometimes referred to as cement, they stood on the grey cement beside the pool |
| cement | any of various materials used by dentists to fill cavities in teeth |
hydraulic cement
Portland cement | a cement that hardens under water, made by heating limestone and clay in a kiln and pulverizing the result |
| blast | shrivel or wither or mature imperfectly |
| blast knock down | shatter as if by explosion |
savage
blast pillory crucify | criticize harshly or violently, The press savaged the new President, The critics crucified the author for plagiarizing a famous passage |
| blast shoot | fire a shot, the gunman blasted away |
blast
shell | use explosives on, The enemy has been shelling us all day |
| cement | make fast as if with cement, We cemented our friendship |
| cement | bind or join with or as if with cement |
| cement | cover or coat with cement |
smash
nail boom
blast | hit hard, He smashed a -run homer |
| blast off | launch with great force, the rockets were blasted off |
| blast | make with or as if with an explosion, blast a tunnel through the Alps |
blast
shell | create by using explosives, blast a passage through the mountain |
| blast | apply a draft or strong wind to to, the air conditioning was blasting cold air at us |
blast
blare | make a strident sound, She tended to blast when speaking into a microphone |