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# kiln

«kiln» in Mova's school dictionary: **A very hot oven used for baking (firing) clay pots…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a kiln, kilns)

### meaning for a pupil

A very hot oven used for baking (firing) clay pots, bricks or tiles to make them hard, or for drying things like wood or hops. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kiln/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In art lessons: clay models are fired in a kiln at school, and they become hard ceramics. In science: heating clay causes an irreversible change — it cannot turn back into soft clay. In history: old brick kilns and lime kilns. Safety: kilns are extremely hot, only adults use them. Phrases: «fire in a kiln», «pottery kiln», «brick kiln».

### examples

- Our clay pots went into the kiln to be fired. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kiln/#x1)
- The kiln gets much hotter than a kitchen oven. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kiln/#x2)
- After the kiln, the clay was hard and shiny. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kiln/#x3)
- Only the art teacher can open the kiln. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kiln/#x4)
- The old brick kiln is now a museum. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kiln/#x5)
- Bricks are baked in a kiln. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kiln/#x6)
- And toward evening he came to another brick-kiln. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kiln/#x7)

### note

Countable. Pronounced «kiln» (some people say «kill»). Firing clay in a kiln is an irreversible change.

### In the corpora

- [A kiln for firing clay is extremely hot and is for adults only.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/303-console-games-building-crafts-and-music/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «kiln» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kiln/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.