smokestack
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5.3
- noun
- /ˈsmoʊkˌstæk/
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chimenea
- Two large red and black smokestacks rose in the sky, almost disappearing out of sight.
- factory smokestacks
- smokestack emissions
- power plant smokestacks
And the first question she asks is, is that a smokestack over there?
- And the first question she asks is, is that a smokestack over there?
- Two weeks from now, smokestacks will still belch in industrial heartlands.
- A common world, the chimney in disuse, the smokestack, bricks and vines.
Examples
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You can see the large smokestack of the power plant from miles away.
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Aren't they ever gonna paint that smokestack?
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That smokestack, second one from the left.
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- There we are, the big red smokestack.
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There's no smoke coming out of that smokestack.
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Smoke billowed from two giant smokestacks 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Academic text (2009) -
If the utilities were generally required to install smokestack scrubbers, the cost would be $4.8 billion annually.
Academic text (1998) -
Some plants added desulfurizing scrubbers to their smokestacks or switched to low sulfur, coal and natural gas.
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Soon the bus began to approach brick warehouses, tall smokestacks, clumps of trailers with tiny dirt yards.
Fiction book (1994) -
Sparks shot from the smokestacks of unseen locomotives, while protracted whistles rent the darkness.
Fiction book (2000)
Synonyms
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1.0
A tall structure on a house that lets smoke from a fire go outside
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5.0
A tall chimney at a factory that releases smoke
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5.2
A tall chimney on a ship that sends out smoke from the engines
Tall part that sticks out above a roof and often has several pipes for smoke
How Tall
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5.3
131
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word smokestack comes from joining smoke and stack, where stack means 'a pile' or tall pile. So a smokestack is literally the tall chimney that sends smoke up into the air on factories, ships, or power plants.