chimney
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- noun
- /ˈtʃɪmni/
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chimenea
- When he hiked through drifts to the cabin, no smoke wisped from the chimney; no fire burned.
- smoke from a chimney
- chimney vent
- a chimney sweep
Who thinks Santa enters through the chimney, Santa enters through the heart.
- Who thinks Santa enters through the chimney, Santa enters through the heart.
- How real, how startlingly alive, is a factory chimney compared with an Elm tree?
- So I think once we get this done, we should do the downstairs chimney once the container is here.
- You know, oh, something's in the chimney.
- And young Russians in need of discipline and love will have to do without flying nannies and chimney sweeps.
- A common world, the chimney in disuse, the smokestack, bricks and vines.
- And they were called chimney sweeps when they when they went to seed because they looked exactly like a chimney sweeper's broom.
Examples
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Smoke rose from farmhouse chimneys and flattened out to the east.
Fiction book (1991) -
From here, we can see a narrow ribbon of brown smoke escape from the chimney pipe.
Academic text (2007) -
I saw the chimney on the way in.
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My mother had it blocked off after she found birds living in the chimney.
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This house has so many chimneys.
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Only its two chimneys and a bit of its roof were visible as my car approached.
Academic text (1999) -
The farmhouses were white, with slate roofs and two white chimneys, one at each end of the house.
Fiction book (1991) -
The smoke billowed out of the chimney when the fire was lit.
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During the winter, we sometimes see birds build nests inside the chimney.
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The old house had a tall chimney that could be seen from miles away.
Synonyms
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A tall chimney on a factory, ship, or power plant that sends smoke and gas into the air
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A tall chimney at a factory that releases smoke
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A passage that carries smoke and gas from a fireplace to the outside
A tall pipe on a roof that carries smoke from a fire inside a building
Tall part that sticks out above a roof and often has several pipes for smoke
Idioms
Compounds
A small fast North American bird that nests in chimneys and eats flying insects
- Archaic
A glass tube that covers a lamp flame to protect it and help it burn steadily
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Chimney comes from the old Latin caminus and the Old French cheminee, which both meant 'furnace' or 'fireplace'. So a chimney is the vertical part of a house that lets smoke go up and out.