Wort des Tages
7 August 2026
fired
adjectiveIndustriekeramik
Heated in a furnace, kiln, etc., to become permanently hardened.
Warum dieses Wort
One syllable covering an entirely irreversible transformation. Nothing that has been fired can be unfired.
In use
Don't touch the tolerances yet, they've been fired so the shrinkage is already in them; measure what came out of the kiln.
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- Zusätzliche QuelleCuratorial care of ceramic, glass, and stone objectsU.S. National Park Service