kiln

CEFRB2

/kɪln/

noun

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A special oven used to bake pottery or harden materials.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    To bake in a kiln; to fire.

Examples

  • I used to make ash trays in a kiln at school.

  • The kiln must reach 1400 degree centigrade in order to melt glass.

At a glance

Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
3
Parts of speech
1
Citations
1

Also pronounced

  • /kɪl/

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meaning

  1. An oven or furnace or a heated chamber, for the purpose of hardening, burning, calcining or drying anything; for example, firing ceramics, curing or preserving tobacco, or drying grain.

More examples

In context

  • When making pottery we need to allow the bisque to dry before we kiln it.

  • One typical Grecian kiln engorged one thousand muleloads of juniper wood in a single burn. Fifty such kilns would devour six thousand metric tons of trees and brush annually.

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Origin

noun

From Middle English kilne, from Old English cyln, cylen, cylin (“large oven, kiln”), from Latin culīna (“kitchen, kitchen stove”). Middle English -ln(e) usually becomes modern -ll as in mill. The pronunciation /kɪln/ may be based on dialects in which this simplification did not take place, but it must have been at least reinforced by spelling pronunciation.