Kiln vs. Kin — What's the Difference?

A kiln is a thermally insulated chamber, a type of oven, that produces temperatures sufficient to complete some process, such as hardening, drying, or chemical changes. Kilns have been used for millennia to turn objects made from clay into pottery, tiles and bricks.

(used with a pl. verb) One's relatives or family

Any of various ovens for hardening, burning, or drying substances such as grain, meal, or clay, especially a brick-lined oven used to bake or fire ceramics.

A relative or family member

To process in one of these ovens.

(used with a pl. verb) Organisms that are genetically related to another or others

An oven or furnace or a heated chamber, for the purpose of hardening, burning, calcining or drying anything; for example, firing ceramics, curing or preserving tobacco, or drying grain.

Related genetically or in the same family.

To bake in a kiln; to fire.

Related or similar; akin

A large stove or oven; a furnace of brick or stone, or a heated chamber, for the purpose of hardening, burning, or drying anything; as, a kiln for baking or hardening earthen vessels; a kiln for drying grain, meal, lumber, etc.; a kiln for calcining limestone.

Race; family; breed; kind.

A furnace for burning bricks; a brickkiln.

(collectively) Persons of the same race or family; kindred.

A large oven for firing or burning or drying such things as porcelain or bricks

One or more relatives, such as siblings or cousins, taken collectively.

Relationship; same-bloodedness or affinity; near connection or alliance, as of those having common descent.

(fandom) A fictional character who one deeply relates to.

Someone who relates deeply to a certain fictional character.

Related by blood or marriage, akin. Generally used in "kin to".

To identify with; as in empathize or emotionally relate to a fictional character.

A primitive Chinese instrument of the cittern kind, with from five to twenty-five silken strings.

Relationship, consanguinity, or affinity; connection by birth or marriage; kindred; near connection or alliance, as of those having common descent.

Relatives; persons of the same family or race.

The unit velocity in the C. G. S. system - a velocity of one centimeter per second.

Of the same nature or kind; kinder.

A person having kinship with another or others;

Group of people related by blood or marriage

Related by blood