Look up: hearth

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   hearth
   [n] - an area near a fireplace (usually paved and extending out into a room 2. [n] - home symbolized as a part of the fireplace (synecdoche)
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   hearth
   The floor of a fireplace.
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   Hearth
   The floor of a fireplace that extends into the room
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   Hearth
   The place where a fire is set upon the ground, in a pit or on stones. These can be detected by geophysical techniques.
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   hearth
   the lining of a blast furnace at the bottom of the hearth Category: Iron and steel industries • a structure on which the charge materials are placed,and which may be fixed or moving Category: Iron and steel industries • the car-type furnace has a moveable hearth, which, however, is stationary during the heating period, and sometimes also during the cooling period. Catego...
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   Hearth
   The inner or outer floor of a fireplace, usually made of brick, tile, or stone.
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   Hearth
   Hearth (härth) noun [ Middle English harthe , herth , herthe , Anglo-Saxon heorš ; akin to Dutch haard , heerd , Swedish härd , German herd ; confer Goth. haśri a coal, Icelandic hyrr embers, and Latin cremare to burn.] 1. The pavement or floor of brick, stone, or metal in a chimney, on which a fire is made; t ...
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   hearth
   1. The pavement or floor of brick, stone, or metal in a chimney, on which a fire is made; the floor of a fireplace; also, a corresponding part of a stove. 'There was a fire on the hearth burning before him.' (Jer. Xxxvi. 22) 'Where fires thou find'st unraked and hearths unswept. There pinch the maids as blue as bilberry.' (Shak) ... 2. The house its ...
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   hearth
   fireside noun home symbolized as a part of the fireplace; `driven from hearth and home`; `fighting in defense of their firesides`
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    hearth
    fireside noun an area near a fireplace (usually paved and extending out into a room); `they sat on the hearth and warmed themselves before the fire`
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    hearth
    noun 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`
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    Hearth
    In common historic and modern usage, a `hearth` (Har-th) is a brick- or stone-lined fireplace or oven used for cooking and/or heating. Because of its nature, in historic times the hearth was considered an integral part of a home, often its central or most important feature: its Latin name is `focus`. This concept has been generalized to refer to a homeplace or household, as in the terms `hearth and home` and `keep the home fires burning.` In fire...
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    Hearth
    • (n.) The house itself, as the abode of comfort to its inmates and of hospitality to strangers; fireside. • (n.) The pavement or floor of brick, stone, or metal in a chimney, on which a fire is made; the floor of a fireplace; also, a corresponding part of a stove. • (n.) The floor of a furnace, on which the material to be heated lie...
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    hearth
    (from the article `blast furnace`) The bosh is the hottest part of the furnace because of its close proximity to the reaction between air and coke. Molten iron accumulates in the ... ...low shaft furnaces with water power to drive the bellows, and the bloom, which might weigh over 100 kilograms, was extracted through the top of ... [...
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    Hearth
    Hearth Greek: Hestia (goddess) Latin: Vesta (goddess) Goddess of hearth and home. Symbols: the hearth fire. Winners of the Ancient Olympic events visited the Temple of Zeus to sacrifice to the gods, and half of every animal was delivered to the priests to be prepared for the Olympic feast. That feast, held on the third day of the Games, was marked b...
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    Hearth
    - The fireproof area directly in front of a fireplace. The inner or outer floor of a fireplace, usually made of brick, tile, or stone.
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