英和和英

形容詞

open-hearth (not comparable)

1. Describing a reverberatory furnace used to make steel, usually in mass-produced quantities.

   a then-new steel mill with three large open-hearth furnaces

2. Designating the steel so produced.

   Early open-hearth steels, beating crucible steels on price but often unable to match their quality, were nonetheless well suited to many applications where extreme strength was superfluous but low cost was essential.

3. Describing an open hearth in the home, especially in premodern centuries when such hearths were more common.

   the little tricks of open-hearth cooking that she had nearly forgotten after years behind a coal range

派生語

名詞

open hearth (複数形 open hearths)

1. An open hearth furnace (open-hearth furnace).

   extra shifts for the workers prepping the open hearth

2. A home hearth comprising a hearthstone alone, as opposed to one comprising a hearthstone and fireplace or oven.

   cooking over an open hearth

形容詞

open hearth (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of open-hearth (open compound attributive form)