Overfire

Quick meaning: Overfire is an adjective meaning Of a boiler, furnace, or other heating device: relating to components or other things that are located above the fire.

Meaning

Of a boiler, furnace, or other heating device: relating to components or other things that are located above the fire.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To create too large a fire in a fireplace, furnace, firebox, etc.
2. (transitive, ceramics) To fire at a high (or excessively high) temperature.
3. (transitive, physiology) Of a cell or group of cells: to fire excessively.

Example Sentences

Overfiring the appliance may cause a house fire. If a unit or chimney connector glows, you are overfiring.

I found that the Chapelon steamed almost too freely, because on a strange locomotive and road one usually tends to overfire a little through a natural lack of confidence.

We have so far concentrated on creosote fires as a source of elevated flue gas temperatures. But overfiring the stove or fireplace – building a large, hot fire – can also produce very high temperatures.

In the interest of smoke abatement, overfire jets are now installed on thousands of commercial and industrial coal-fired furnaces. [...] The overfire jet is a device for providing turbulence and/or overfire air above the fuel bed of hand-fired and stoker-fired furnaces.

Word Forms

• over-fire
• overfires
• overfiring
• overfired

Synonyms for overfire

Depending on context, synonyms include overstoke.

Antonyms for overfire

Common opposites include underfire.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include overfired, overbore, afire, high-pitched, flagrant, overbridging.

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