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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
| Imperative |
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| kiln |
| kiln |
| Present |
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| I kiln |
| you kiln |
| he/she/it kilns |
| we kiln |
| you kiln |
| they kiln |
| Preterite |
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| I kilned |
| you kilned |
| he/she/it kilned |
| we kilned |
| you kilned |
| they kilned |
| Present Continuous |
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| I am kilning |
| you are kilning |
| he/she/it is kilning |
| we are kilning |
| you are kilning |
| they are kilning |
| Present Perfect |
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| I have kilned |
| you have kilned |
| he/she/it has kilned |
| we have kilned |
| you have kilned |
| they have kilned |
| Past Continuous |
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| I was kilning |
| you were kilning |
| he/she/it was kilning |
| we were kilning |
| you were kilning |
| they were kilning |
| Past Perfect |
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| I had kilned |
| you had kilned |
| he/she/it had kilned |
| we had kilned |
| you had kilned |
| they had kilned |
| Future |
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| I will kiln |
| you will kiln |
| he/she/it will kiln |
| we will kiln |
| you will kiln |
| they will kiln |
| Future Perfect |
|---|
| I will have kilned |
| you will have kilned |
| he/she/it will have kilned |
| we will have kilned |
| you will have kilned |
| they will have kilned |
| Future Continuous |
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| I will be kilning |
| you will be kilning |
| he/she/it will be kilning |
| we will be kilning |
| you will be kilning |
| they will be kilning |
| Present Perfect Continuous |
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| I have been kilning |
| you have been kilning |
| he/she/it has been kilning |
| we have been kilning |
| you have been kilning |
| they have been kilning |
| Future Perfect Continuous |
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| I will have been kilning |
| you will have been kilning |
| he/she/it will have been kilning |
| we will have been kilning |
| you will have been kilning |
| they will have been kilning |
| Past Perfect Continuous |
|---|
| I had been kilning |
| you had been kilning |
| he/she/it had been kilning |
| we had been kilning |
| you had been kilning |
| they had been kilning |
| Conditional |
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| I would kiln |
| you would kiln |
| he/she/it would kiln |
| we would kiln |
| you would kiln |
| they would kiln |
| Past Conditional |
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| I would have kilned |
| you would have kilned |
| he/she/it would have kilned |
| we would have kilned |
| you would have kilned |
| they would have kilned |
Collins English Verb Tables © HarperCollins Publishers 2011
kiln
A chamber in which clay is fired.
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Noun 1. [画像:kiln - a furnace for firing or burning or drying such things as porcelain or bricks]kiln - a furnace for firing or burning or drying such things as porcelain or bricks
brickkiln - 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
drooghutdroogkamer oven
fırın kireç 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
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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. steenoond أتون، فُرْن пещ fornalha pec der Brennofen ovn καμίνι horno põletusahi کوره uuni four כבשן ईंटों का भट्टा peć za pečenje (vapna, opeke) égetőkemence pembakaran (leir)brennsluofn fornace かま (벽돌 등을 굽는) 가마 krosnis ceplis tanur oven brenne-/tegl-/tørkeovn piec do wypalania بټي،د خښتو داش،كوره fornalha cuptor de ardere печь pec žgalna peč peć za pečenje grnčarije brännugn เตาเผา tuğla ocağı, fırın 窯,乾燥爐 сушильна, випалювальна піч بھٹّی یا تنور lò nung 窑,干燥炉
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