Difference between Open-hearth and Furnace

Open-hearth

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Describing a reverberatory furnace used to make high-quality steel Designating the steel so produced

Furnace

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To heat in a furnace.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A device for heating.A device that heats materials being processed in a factory.A device that provides heat for a building.Any area that is excessively hot.

Example sentence: My parents were brutal to each other, so I slept in the basement by an old coal-fired furnace. I became a street kid. Occasionally, I'd live with aunts or uncles, then I'd run away to live in the woods, trapping and hunting game to survive. The wilderness pulled at me; still does.