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kiln
(kĭln, kĭl)n.
Any of various ovens for hardening, burning, or drying substances such as grain, meal, or clay, especially a brick-lined oven used to bake or fire ceramics.
tr.v. kilned, kiln·ing, kilns
To process in one of these ovens.
[Middle English kilne, from Old English cyln, from Latin culīna, kitchen, stove; see pekw- in Indo-European roots.]
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kiln
(kɪln)n
(Ceramics) a large oven for burning, drying, or processing something, such as porcelain or bricks
vb
(Ceramics) (tr) to fire or process in a kiln
[Old English cylen, from Late Latin culīna kitchen, from Latin coquere to cook]
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kiln
(kɪl, kɪln)n.
1. a furnace or oven for burning, baking, or drying something, esp. one for firing pottery, calcining limestone, or baking bricks.
v.t. 2. to burn, bake, or treat in a kiln.
[before 900; Middle English kiln(e), Old English cylen < Latin culīna kitchen]
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kiln
- hovel - A conical building enclosing a kiln.
- oast - A kiln used to dry hops or malt or tobacco.
- battledore - Can refer to various tools, such as the paddle of a canoe or a utensil for inserting loaves into an oven or wares into a kiln.
- china - Comes from Persian chini, for the delicate and valuable ware first made in China; the word describes pieces made from certain kinds of clay that have been glazed, usually decorated, and fired in a kiln at high temperatures.
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kiln
Past participle: kilned
Gerund: kilning
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kiln
A chamber in which clay is fired.
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| Noun | 1. |  kiln - a furnace for firing or burning or drying such things as porcelain or bricksbrickkiln - a kiln for making bricks dry kiln - a kiln for drying and seasoning lumber furnace - an enclosed chamber in which heat is produced to heat buildings, destroy refuse, smelt or refine ores, etc. limekiln - a kiln used to reduce naturally occurring forms of calcium carbonate to lime muffle - a kiln with an inner chamber for firing things at a low temperature oast - a kiln for drying hops |
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Translations
أتون، فُرْن
ovn
भट्टा
égetõkemenceégetőkemence
brennsluofn
ceplis
drooghutdroogkameroven
fırınkireç ocağıtuğla ocağı
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
kiln
n (for baking, burning) → (Brenn)ofen m; (for minerals) → Röst- or Kiesofen m; (for drying bricks etc) → Trockenofen m; (for hops etc) → Darre f, → Darrofen m
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
kiln
(kiln) noun a type of large oven for baking pottery or bricks, drying grain etc.
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