Chimney
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English
Noun
Chimney (plural Chimneys)- A vertical tube or hollow column used to emit environmentally polluting gaseous and solid matter (including but not limited to by-products of burning carbon or hydro-carbon based fuels); a flue.
- The glass flue surrounding the flame of an oil lamp.
- (UK) The smokestack of a steam locomotive.
- A narrow cleft in a rock face; a narrow vertical cave passage.
Verb
Chimney (third-person singular simple present Chimneys, present participle Chimneying, simple past and past participle Chimneyed)
- (climbing) To negotiate a chimney (sense #4) by pushing against the sides with back, feet, hands, etc.
Adjectives for Chimney
spiraled; defective; tottering; stumpy; low; ungainly; blackened; ghostly clustering; open-throated; sparkless; disused; rotten; smoking; natural; stubborn; ample; curious;
Verbs for Chimney
decorate—; design—; escape through— extend—; fire—; inspect—; lodge in— muffle—; block—; blow down—; clean—; connect— construct—; convey through—; dampen—; obstruct—; pass through— suck up—; support—; —breathes; —carries off; —diffuses; —discharges; —draws off; —exhales; —fumes; —leaks; —reeks —smokes; —topples; —tumbles.
Derived terms
Thesaurus
funnel, furrow, gangue, gap, gape, gash, gorge, groove, gulch, gulf, gully, hearth, hearthstone, hob, hole, hub, incision, ingle, inglenook, ingleside, joint, kloof, leak, lode, lodestuff, matrix, mineral deposit, moat, notch, nullah, opening, ore bed, pass, passage, pay dirt, ravine, rent, rift, rime, rupture, scissure, seam, shoot, slit, slot, smokehole, smokeshaft, smokestack, split, stack, stock, stovepipe, trench, valley, vein, void, wadi, abysm, abyss, arroyo, box canyon, breach, break, canyon, cavity, chap, chasm, check, chimney corner, chink, chute, cleft, cleuch, clough, col, coulee, couloir, country rock, crack, cranny, crevasse, crevice, cut, cwm, defile, dell, deposit, dike, ditch, donga, draw, excavation, fault, fender, fire screen, fireboard, fireguard, fireplace, fireside, fissure, flaw, flue, flue pipe, flume, fracture, fumarole, cowl; fireplace; flaunching; flue; smokestack; stove
Etymology
From Old French cheminee, from Latin caminus, from Ancient Greek κάμινος (“furnace”).
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