kiln: [OE] Etymologically a kiln is for ‘cooking’, not for burning or drying. Its distant ancestor was Latin coquīna ‘kitchen’, a derivative of the verb coquere ‘cook’. This produced an unexplained variant culīna (source of English culinary [17]), which was used not only for ‘kitchen’, but also for ‘cooking-stove’. Old English adopted it as cylene, which has become modern English kiln. => cook, culinary, kitchen
kiln (n.)
Old English cyln, cylen "kiln, oven," from Latin culina "kitchen, cooking stove," unexplained variant of coquere "to cook" (see cook (n.)). Old Norse kylna, Welsh cilin probably are from English.
实用例句
1. That morning we fired our first kiln of charcoal.
那天上午,我们烧了我们的第一窑木炭.
来自《简明英汉词典》
2. Bricks are baked in a kiln.
砖是在窑里烧成的.
来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
3. Bricks are fired in a kiln.
砖是在窑中烧制的.
来自辞典例句
4. The kiln had been in use for some time and was not in good condition.
该窑使用过一段时间,情况并不好.
来自辞典例句
5. Porcelain from a government kiln is usually more costly.
