Definition of chimney in English:

chimney

nounPlural chimneys ˈtʃɪmniˈtʃɪmni

1A vertical channel or pipe which conducts smoke and combustion gases up from a fire or furnace and typically through the roof of a building.
a coal fire thrust yellow flames up the chimney
a factory chimney
Example sentencesExamples
- Examine the condition of the flashings around chimneys, flue pipes, vent caps and anyplace where the roof and walls intersect.
- The briquettes do not produce a fire hot enough to draw the combustion products up the chimney.
- Images are beamed into the ops center; the towers are smoking like chimneys over the furnaces of Hell.
- It chokes the flues in the smoking chimneys, damping the fires so low that they burn badly, filling the houses with noxious fumes.
- Low hills crested with trees poked from the fog like islands and a village - just a cluster of huts really - floated in the white carpet, smoke from early fires trickling from chimneys.
- There were many houses - hundreds or even thousands with slanted, white-topped roofs and chimneys that billowed thick smoke so heavy as it hung almost frozen in the air.
- Now what greets one are soot and smoke, high rise buildings and chimneys.
- Smoke curled from the chimneys of the wooden buildings below, nothing larger than two stories high.
- The talk of the town was almost as important as the smoke of the factory chimneys in creating a prosperous industrial economy.
- Check the flashings-the metal pieces used to waterproof interruptions in the roof plane such as pipes, chimneys and skylights.
- Above the red tile roofs, wisps of smoke drifted from the chimneys.
- Most of us inhale far less smoke than our ancestors did, with their wood fires and poorly constructed chimneys, so it seems unlikely that ambient smoke can have caused the recent increase.
- The houses were wooden, with thatched roofs and smoking chimneys.
- A small town was nearby as I noticed some stone, slate roofed buildings with smoking chimneys all about.
- Rather than look at street level, he encouraged us all to look at the roofs, the chimneys, the building join lines, as they show so much more about the development of an area.
- An additional 5,500 fires were attributed to chimneys and chimney connectors serving heating systems burning liquid and other fuels.
- About four o'clock, smoke would go up from the chimneys, as the fire was made up and the big iron boiler, or the three-legged pot, was slung on the hook of the chimney-chain.
- Atop the huge craft were, here and there, clusters of brassy and silvery machinery, like boilers and furnaces, with shiny chimneys that belched no smoke, but seemed only to vent a thin steam.
- Hardwoods are better because they burn hotter and form less creosote, an oily, black tar that sticks to chimneys and stove pipes.
- As a teenager, Jack Elphick used to cycle past giant factories studded with chimneys that exhaled foul smoke into a post-war Birmingham sky.
Synonyms
stack, smokestack
1. 1.1 A chimney stack.
  the outlines of rooftops and chimneys stood out against the pale sky
  Example sentencesExamples
  Our room has been done up in keeping with the rest of the hotel - bold strokes of colour and decorative flourishes such as the multiple close-up photographs of the hotel chimneys.
  Colorful banners waved in the air, long strips of black and purple flickered from long poles that jutted from the rooftops of houses and chimneys.
  John Gray, of Tythebarn Street, Darwen, climbed 50 feet onto the roof of the town's India Mill and then went on to the top of the chimney using ladders running up the side.
  Looking out of my bedroom window last night, making out the dusted redbrick chimneys of the parallel terraces, it was as if the discordance had shifted.
  But for all its glories, Victorian was also a time of grinding hard work, belching mill chimneys and the sort of poverty scarcely imaginable today.
  All he wanted me to do was stand on the chimney, chuck a few bricks off and he would point the camera and it would be a film about people with funny jobs.
  Outside it is all whitewashed walls and chimneys and inside exposed beams, plates and a roaring log fire.
  I love looking out of my study (my studio) windows and seeing rooftops, chimneys and sky rather than tram lines and shops.
  Anne-Marie held up her drawing of a red house with a charcoal chimney surrounded by green lawn.
  She has had to wring out water from insulation in her loft, endure water trickling down the walls in her hall and scaffolding around her chimney.
  It is also set among some fine church towers and mill chimneys.
  Its weathered wood-shingle walls, brick chimneys and prettily striped canopied windows are set amid the maple, birch and pine clad slopes of the Laurentian mountains.
  This Christmas, there are more outside lights than ever in town and country, hanging off trees, bushes, walls, railings, rooftops and chimneys.
  The green terraced fields and the smoke coming from the kitchen chimneys of the cottages below look like a picturesque oil painting.
  As you enter parkland laid out by Capability Brown, the distant view of the house's towers and chimneys is a romantic sight.
  Finally, while standing upon his chimney, a helicopter flew by with a ladder lowered, and yet again called for him to save himself.
  today we take a look back at the days when slums, mill chimneys and river docks were a more common sight.
  There's a little woodsmoke on the air, from the chimneys of the cottages across the valley, different from autumn bonfire smoke and infinitely sweeter.
  Prisoners in Auschwitz, watching smoking crematoria chimneys from behind locked gates and electrified fences, considered Theresienstadt a place of well-being.
  The five-bay double-pile Georgian house has a gabled roof with dormer windows and massive chimneys that accommodate flues for fifteen fireplaces.
  Synonyms
  stack, smokestack
2A glass tube protecting the flame of a lamp.
he trimmed the wick and put the glass chimney over the flame
Example sentencesExamples
- Afterwards we'd lie naked on the shadowy porch drinking beer and watching moths batter themselves against the lamp's chimney.
- I'd copied Max's Coleman, improving on the Sathe design by putting a pale glass bulb and chimney around a hollow wick.
- It was cool and dark there, and on a low table by the bed there was already a kerosene lamp burning dully through its dirty chimney.
- Ms Tomlin said: ‘We have not been able to light that one yet because the chimney is capped with a piece of lead.’
- Candles are an inexpensive and easy-to-store lighting option, but to be safe, use them with glass chimneys.
- Add a few drops of ammonia to the rinse water for glass lamps, chimneys, and globes.
- Integral to this burner assembly is a cylindrical glass chimney, which is placed over the burner to induce two constant upward drafts.
- The improved draft system, utilizing a glass chimney, yielded a brighter light that burned more cleanly.
- This can crack the chimney, allowing the flames to spread within the house.
- The flame in the chimney flickered barely, just breathing its existence into the room, then disappeared again.
- After getting the dust off the glass she lit the wide wick and replaced the chimney.
- Let's say the item being offered is a nice old oil lamp with an unblemished glass chimney and a base with some decoration that is in good shape.
- A thermal chimney between the glass layers exhausts heat gains at the top and prevents interior heat gains.
3A very steep narrow cleft by which a rock face may be climbed.
he slid fifty feet down a chimney, and became wedged there
Example sentencesExamples
- In these steep underwater cliff areas were chimneys of gravel that contained datolite nodules.
- Making stemming moves with my feet and pushing against the rock with the palm of my hand I found myself in an awkward chimney position in an open flaring section off rock.
- In his long career he has climbed most of the chimneys in Bradford and left his mark on the historic Lister's Mill in Manningham.
- An offwidth is a crack which is too wide to use as a finger, hand or fist jam but too narrow to get right inside and climb as a chimney.
- From the recess next to the chimney climb up and left until you're right under the overhang.
- Crawl through then traverse around the corner and along the small ledge to belay in the corner beneath the chimney.
- He went up and took a look at the cliff and rock chimneys above the pegmatites, but he didn't like heights.
- This was followed by a level stretch of grassy scree which leads to the crux, a steep shallow chimney, well marked by crampon scratches.
- It looked impossible to step onto the chimney directly above, as it was undercut at its base, and the surface was smooth, with no holds to be seen.
- Sadly, I don't have photos of the chimney we climbed in the Red Banks.
- The last pitch is a memorable chimney with a thorny bush that you have to climb through.
- Above the chimney lies the Black Pyramid, a triangle of notoriously unstable slabs of ice and rock at about 24,500 feet.
- After a short crawl and a climb down a narrow chimney, South Chamber is reached.
- This chimney was the only possible path available for us to take, unless we were to back track and find a different route, and in the process lose our last rays of sunlight.
- The rocks were greasy and slippery and the narrow chimneys and gullies, so delightful in dry summer conditions, were muddy and wet.
- She whirled around as rocks fell from the chimney.
- Climb the obvious chimney / groove near the left hand end of the crag, stepping left at the top to finish up the steep wall above on excellent holds.
- Spider up a chimney, then climb easy ramps and short steps to the top.
- As soon as he cleared the narrow neck of the chimney, his cave light locked on to Shaw, floating eerily upright, his arms spread and the back of his head and shoulders jammed against the ceiling.
- The chimney pushes through the steep roofline and splits in two.

Origin

Middle English (denoting a fireplace or furnace): from Old French cheminee 'chimney, fireplace', from late Latin caminata, perhaps from camera caminata 'room with a fireplace', from Latin caminus 'forge, furnace', from Greek kaminos 'oven'.

A chimney was at first ‘a fireplace or furnace’ and comes via Old French from late Latin caminata, perhaps from camera caminata ‘room with a fireplace’, via Latin caminus ‘forge, furnace’ from Greek kaminos ‘oven’.

Definition of chimney in US English:

chimney

nounˈtʃɪmniˈCHimnē

1A vertical channel or pipe that conducts smoke and combustion gases up from a fire or furnace and typically through the roof of a building.
Example sentencesExamples
- An additional 5,500 fires were attributed to chimneys and chimney connectors serving heating systems burning liquid and other fuels.
- As a teenager, Jack Elphick used to cycle past giant factories studded with chimneys that exhaled foul smoke into a post-war Birmingham sky.
- A small town was nearby as I noticed some stone, slate roofed buildings with smoking chimneys all about.
- Now what greets one are soot and smoke, high rise buildings and chimneys.
- Rather than look at street level, he encouraged us all to look at the roofs, the chimneys, the building join lines, as they show so much more about the development of an area.
- It chokes the flues in the smoking chimneys, damping the fires so low that they burn badly, filling the houses with noxious fumes.
- The briquettes do not produce a fire hot enough to draw the combustion products up the chimney.
- Examine the condition of the flashings around chimneys, flue pipes, vent caps and anyplace where the roof and walls intersect.
- Smoke curled from the chimneys of the wooden buildings below, nothing larger than two stories high.
- Atop the huge craft were, here and there, clusters of brassy and silvery machinery, like boilers and furnaces, with shiny chimneys that belched no smoke, but seemed only to vent a thin steam.
- The houses were wooden, with thatched roofs and smoking chimneys.
- There were many houses - hundreds or even thousands with slanted, white-topped roofs and chimneys that billowed thick smoke so heavy as it hung almost frozen in the air.
- Low hills crested with trees poked from the fog like islands and a village - just a cluster of huts really - floated in the white carpet, smoke from early fires trickling from chimneys.
- Hardwoods are better because they burn hotter and form less creosote, an oily, black tar that sticks to chimneys and stove pipes.
- Most of us inhale far less smoke than our ancestors did, with their wood fires and poorly constructed chimneys, so it seems unlikely that ambient smoke can have caused the recent increase.
- The talk of the town was almost as important as the smoke of the factory chimneys in creating a prosperous industrial economy.
- About four o'clock, smoke would go up from the chimneys, as the fire was made up and the big iron boiler, or the three-legged pot, was slung on the hook of the chimney-chain.
- Check the flashings-the metal pieces used to waterproof interruptions in the roof plane such as pipes, chimneys and skylights.
- Above the red tile roofs, wisps of smoke drifted from the chimneys.
- Images are beamed into the ops center; the towers are smoking like chimneys over the furnaces of Hell.
Synonyms
stack, smokestack
1. 1.1 The part of a chimney that extends above the roof; a chimney stack.
  Example sentencesExamples
  There are problems with the roof and chimney and tarmac paths surrounding the bungalow have been badly laid.
  It has the appearance of a permanent dwelling with a pitched roof and chimney.
  The outside of the house appeared to be a small cottage with a thatched roof and chimney.
  The houses and buildings of Thermis started getting closer and they could see the smoke rising out of the chimneys and above the tiled roofs of the town.
  The Drummonds chimney which towers high above Lumb Lane is one of Bradford's most distinctive landmarks.
  Most often his camera looks to where chimneys meet the sky above the decorative program of a building's exterior.
  Each line in a drawing, each passage through space, each timber in a structure, each chimney in a landscape, was located precisely and sized acutely.
  I want to take down an old, small chimney that is on the roof, and runs down between the living room and the kitchen.
  If the house is fairly tight, the simplest route for makeup air to enter the structure is often the unused fireplace chimney.
  What were simple functional parts of the building, now became highly pattered and ostentatious - as the chimneys above show.
  Looking ashore to Crosshaven, I could see the smoke lazily rising above the slate roofs from the town's many chimneys.
  It is the Defendants' case that the Zyklon-B pellets were fed into the chamber by means of wire mesh column which ran upwards through the roof of the chamber with the chimney protruding above roof level.
  Idande was sitting not far from me on the chimney, raised above my head, his legs dangling and swinging gently like a child might sit.
  Further on, the grey shape of a roof and chimney showed over the rise.
  The mushroom was white with red dots on the cap and an almost chimney like structure on the top.
  He scurried across the roof and ducked behind the great brick chimney just as his pursuers reached the window.
  Oh. It's just that I'm learning how to renovate the roof and chimney on the next house and it's thirsty going.
  Hiring an inspector at the end of the project is not in itself a bad idea since you are unlikely to crawl around the roof and discover there's no chimney flashing.
  The only real clue to its after-hours possibilities is a large graphic on top that contains a house symbol with familiar gabled roof and chimney.
  Synonyms
  stack, smokestack
2. 1.2 A glass tube that protects the flame of a lamp.
  Example sentencesExamples
  Candles are an inexpensive and easy-to-store lighting option, but to be safe, use them with glass chimneys.
  Add a few drops of ammonia to the rinse water for glass lamps, chimneys, and globes.
  After getting the dust off the glass she lit the wide wick and replaced the chimney.
  Integral to this burner assembly is a cylindrical glass chimney, which is placed over the burner to induce two constant upward drafts.
  This can crack the chimney, allowing the flames to spread within the house.
  Afterwards we'd lie naked on the shadowy porch drinking beer and watching moths batter themselves against the lamp's chimney.
  I'd copied Max's Coleman, improving on the Sathe design by putting a pale glass bulb and chimney around a hollow wick.
  The improved draft system, utilizing a glass chimney, yielded a brighter light that burned more cleanly.
  Ms Tomlin said: ‘We have not been able to light that one yet because the chimney is capped with a piece of lead.’
  It was cool and dark there, and on a low table by the bed there was already a kerosene lamp burning dully through its dirty chimney.
  Let's say the item being offered is a nice old oil lamp with an unblemished glass chimney and a base with some decoration that is in good shape.
  The flame in the chimney flickered barely, just breathing its existence into the room, then disappeared again.
  A thermal chimney between the glass layers exhausts heat gains at the top and prevents interior heat gains.
3. 1.3 A steep narrow cleft by which a rock face may be climbed.
  Example sentencesExamples
  Climb the obvious chimney / groove near the left hand end of the crag, stepping left at the top to finish up the steep wall above on excellent holds.
  In his long career he has climbed most of the chimneys in Bradford and left his mark on the historic Lister's Mill in Manningham.
  The chimney pushes through the steep roofline and splits in two.
  Spider up a chimney, then climb easy ramps and short steps to the top.
  The rocks were greasy and slippery and the narrow chimneys and gullies, so delightful in dry summer conditions, were muddy and wet.
  This chimney was the only possible path available for us to take, unless we were to back track and find a different route, and in the process lose our last rays of sunlight.
  She whirled around as rocks fell from the chimney.
  This was followed by a level stretch of grassy scree which leads to the crux, a steep shallow chimney, well marked by crampon scratches.
  Above the chimney lies the Black Pyramid, a triangle of notoriously unstable slabs of ice and rock at about 24,500 feet.
  After a short crawl and a climb down a narrow chimney, South Chamber is reached.
  Sadly, I don't have photos of the chimney we climbed in the Red Banks.
  An offwidth is a crack which is too wide to use as a finger, hand or fist jam but too narrow to get right inside and climb as a chimney.
  As soon as he cleared the narrow neck of the chimney, his cave light locked on to Shaw, floating eerily upright, his arms spread and the back of his head and shoulders jammed against the ceiling.
  Making stemming moves with my feet and pushing against the rock with the palm of my hand I found myself in an awkward chimney position in an open flaring section off rock.
  Crawl through then traverse around the corner and along the small ledge to belay in the corner beneath the chimney.
  He went up and took a look at the cliff and rock chimneys above the pegmatites, but he didn't like heights.
  In these steep underwater cliff areas were chimneys of gravel that contained datolite nodules.
  It looked impossible to step onto the chimney directly above, as it was undercut at its base, and the surface was smooth, with no holds to be seen.
  The last pitch is a memorable chimney with a thorny bush that you have to climb through.
  From the recess next to the chimney climb up and left until you're right under the overhang.

Origin

Middle English (denoting a fireplace or furnace): from Old French cheminee ‘chimney, fireplace’, from late Latin caminata, perhaps from camera caminata ‘room with a fireplace’, from Latin caminus ‘forge, furnace’, from Greek kaminos ‘oven’.

单词	chimney
释义	Definition of chimney in English: chimney nounPlural chimneys ˈtʃɪmniˈtʃɪmni 1A vertical channel or pipe which conducts smoke and combustion gases up from a fire or furnace and typically through the roof of a building. a coal fire thrust yellow flames up the chimney a factory chimney Example sentencesExamples Examine the condition of the flashings around chimneys, flue pipes, vent caps and anyplace where the roof and walls intersect. The briquettes do not produce a fire hot enough to draw the combustion products up the chimney. Images are beamed into the ops center; the towers are smoking like chimneys over the furnaces of Hell. It chokes the flues in the smoking chimneys, damping the fires so low that they burn badly, filling the houses with noxious fumes. Low hills crested with trees poked from the fog like islands and a village - just a cluster of huts really - floated in the white carpet, smoke from early fires trickling from chimneys. There were many houses - hundreds or even thousands with slanted, white-topped roofs and chimneys that billowed thick smoke so heavy as it hung almost frozen in the air. Now what greets one are soot and smoke, high rise buildings and chimneys. Smoke curled from the chimneys of the wooden buildings below, nothing larger than two stories high. The talk of the town was almost as important as the smoke of the factory chimneys in creating a prosperous industrial economy. Check the flashings-the metal pieces used to waterproof interruptions in the roof plane such as pipes, chimneys and skylights. Above the red tile roofs, wisps of smoke drifted from the chimneys. Most of us inhale far less smoke than our ancestors did, with their wood fires and poorly constructed chimneys, so it seems unlikely that ambient smoke can have caused the recent increase. The houses were wooden, with thatched roofs and smoking chimneys. A small town was nearby as I noticed some stone, slate roofed buildings with smoking chimneys all about. Rather than look at street level, he encouraged us all to look at the roofs, the chimneys, the building join lines, as they show so much more about the development of an area. An additional 5,500 fires were attributed to chimneys and chimney connectors serving heating systems burning liquid and other fuels. About four o'clock, smoke would go up from the chimneys, as the fire was made up and the big iron boiler, or the three-legged pot, was slung on the hook of the chimney-chain. Atop the huge craft were, here and there, clusters of brassy and silvery machinery, like boilers and furnaces, with shiny chimneys that belched no smoke, but seemed only to vent a thin steam. Hardwoods are better because they burn hotter and form less creosote, an oily, black tar that sticks to chimneys and stove pipes. As a teenager, Jack Elphick used to cycle past giant factories studded with chimneys that exhaled foul smoke into a post-war Birmingham sky. Synonyms stack, smokestack 1.1 A chimney stack. the outlines of rooftops and chimneys stood out against the pale sky Example sentencesExamples Our room has been done up in keeping with the rest of the hotel - bold strokes of colour and decorative flourishes such as the multiple close-up photographs of the hotel chimneys. Colorful banners waved in the air, long strips of black and purple flickered from long poles that jutted from the rooftops of houses and chimneys. John Gray, of Tythebarn Street, Darwen, climbed 50 feet onto the roof of the town's India Mill and then went on to the top of the chimney using ladders running up the side. Looking out of my bedroom window last night, making out the dusted redbrick chimneys of the parallel terraces, it was as if the discordance had shifted. But for all its glories, Victorian was also a time of grinding hard work, belching mill chimneys and the sort of poverty scarcely imaginable today. All he wanted me to do was stand on the chimney, chuck a few bricks off and he would point the camera and it would be a film about people with funny jobs. Outside it is all whitewashed walls and chimneys and inside exposed beams, plates and a roaring log fire. I love looking out of my study (my studio) windows and seeing rooftops, chimneys and sky rather than tram lines and shops. Anne-Marie held up her drawing of a red house with a charcoal chimney surrounded by green lawn. She has had to wring out water from insulation in her loft, endure water trickling down the walls in her hall and scaffolding around her chimney. It is also set among some fine church towers and mill chimneys. Its weathered wood-shingle walls, brick chimneys and prettily striped canopied windows are set amid the maple, birch and pine clad slopes of the Laurentian mountains. This Christmas, there are more outside lights than ever in town and country, hanging off trees, bushes, walls, railings, rooftops and chimneys. The green terraced fields and the smoke coming from the kitchen chimneys of the cottages below look like a picturesque oil painting. As you enter parkland laid out by Capability Brown, the distant view of the house's towers and chimneys is a romantic sight. Finally, while standing upon his chimney, a helicopter flew by with a ladder lowered, and yet again called for him to save himself. today we take a look back at the days when slums, mill chimneys and river docks were a more common sight. There's a little woodsmoke on the air, from the chimneys of the cottages across the valley, different from autumn bonfire smoke and infinitely sweeter. Prisoners in Auschwitz, watching smoking crematoria chimneys from behind locked gates and electrified fences, considered Theresienstadt a place of well-being. The five-bay double-pile Georgian house has a gabled roof with dormer windows and massive chimneys that accommodate flues for fifteen fireplaces. Synonyms stack, smokestack 2A glass tube protecting the flame of a lamp. he trimmed the wick and put the glass chimney over the flame Example sentencesExamples Afterwards we'd lie naked on the shadowy porch drinking beer and watching moths batter themselves against the lamp's chimney. I'd copied Max's Coleman, improving on the Sathe design by putting a pale glass bulb and chimney around a hollow wick. It was cool and dark there, and on a low table by the bed there was already a kerosene lamp burning dully through its dirty chimney. Ms Tomlin said: ‘We have not been able to light that one yet because the chimney is capped with a piece of lead.’ Candles are an inexpensive and easy-to-store lighting option, but to be safe, use them with glass chimneys. Add a few drops of ammonia to the rinse water for glass lamps, chimneys, and globes. Integral to this burner assembly is a cylindrical glass chimney, which is placed over the burner to induce two constant upward drafts. The improved draft system, utilizing a glass chimney, yielded a brighter light that burned more cleanly. This can crack the chimney, allowing the flames to spread within the house. The flame in the chimney flickered barely, just breathing its existence into the room, then disappeared again. After getting the dust off the glass she lit the wide wick and replaced the chimney. Let's say the item being offered is a nice old oil lamp with an unblemished glass chimney and a base with some decoration that is in good shape. A thermal chimney between the glass layers exhausts heat gains at the top and prevents interior heat gains. 3A very steep narrow cleft by which a rock face may be climbed. he slid fifty feet down a chimney, and became wedged there Example sentencesExamples In these steep underwater cliff areas were chimneys of gravel that contained datolite nodules. Making stemming moves with my feet and pushing against the rock with the palm of my hand I found myself in an awkward chimney position in an open flaring section off rock. In his long career he has climbed most of the chimneys in Bradford and left his mark on the historic Lister's Mill in Manningham. An offwidth is a crack which is too wide to use as a finger, hand or fist jam but too narrow to get right inside and climb as a chimney. From the recess next to the chimney climb up and left until you're right under the overhang. Crawl through then traverse around the corner and along the small ledge to belay in the corner beneath the chimney. He went up and took a look at the cliff and rock chimneys above the pegmatites, but he didn't like heights. This was followed by a level stretch of grassy scree which leads to the crux, a steep shallow chimney, well marked by crampon scratches. It looked impossible to step onto the chimney directly above, as it was undercut at its base, and the surface was smooth, with no holds to be seen. Sadly, I don't have photos of the chimney we climbed in the Red Banks. The last pitch is a memorable chimney with a thorny bush that you have to climb through. Above the chimney lies the Black Pyramid, a triangle of notoriously unstable slabs of ice and rock at about 24,500 feet. After a short crawl and a climb down a narrow chimney, South Chamber is reached. This chimney was the only possible path available for us to take, unless we were to back track and find a different route, and in the process lose our last rays of sunlight. The rocks were greasy and slippery and the narrow chimneys and gullies, so delightful in dry summer conditions, were muddy and wet. She whirled around as rocks fell from the chimney. Climb the obvious chimney / groove near the left hand end of the crag, stepping left at the top to finish up the steep wall above on excellent holds. Spider up a chimney, then climb easy ramps and short steps to the top. As soon as he cleared the narrow neck of the chimney, his cave light locked on to Shaw, floating eerily upright, his arms spread and the back of his head and shoulders jammed against the ceiling. The chimney pushes through the steep roofline and splits in two. Origin Middle English (denoting a fireplace or furnace): from Old French cheminee 'chimney, fireplace', from late Latin caminata, perhaps from camera caminata 'room with a fireplace', from Latin caminus 'forge, furnace', from Greek kaminos 'oven'. A chimney was at first ‘a fireplace or furnace’ and comes via Old French from late Latin caminata, perhaps from camera caminata ‘room with a fireplace’, via Latin caminus ‘forge, furnace’ from Greek kaminos ‘oven’. Definition of chimney in US English: chimney nounˈtʃɪmniˈCHimnē 1A vertical channel or pipe that conducts smoke and combustion gases up from a fire or furnace and typically through the roof of a building. Example sentencesExamples An additional 5,500 fires were attributed to chimneys and chimney connectors serving heating systems burning liquid and other fuels. As a teenager, Jack Elphick used to cycle past giant factories studded with chimneys that exhaled foul smoke into a post-war Birmingham sky. A small town was nearby as I noticed some stone, slate roofed buildings with smoking chimneys all about. Now what greets one are soot and smoke, high rise buildings and chimneys. Rather than look at street level, he encouraged us all to look at the roofs, the chimneys, the building join lines, as they show so much more about the development of an area. It chokes the flues in the smoking chimneys, damping the fires so low that they burn badly, filling the houses with noxious fumes. The briquettes do not produce a fire hot enough to draw the combustion products up the chimney. Examine the condition of the flashings around chimneys, flue pipes, vent caps and anyplace where the roof and walls intersect. Smoke curled from the chimneys of the wooden buildings below, nothing larger than two stories high. Atop the huge craft were, here and there, clusters of brassy and silvery machinery, like boilers and furnaces, with shiny chimneys that belched no smoke, but seemed only to vent a thin steam. The houses were wooden, with thatched roofs and smoking chimneys. There were many houses - hundreds or even thousands with slanted, white-topped roofs and chimneys that billowed thick smoke so heavy as it hung almost frozen in the air. Low hills crested with trees poked from the fog like islands and a village - just a cluster of huts really - floated in the white carpet, smoke from early fires trickling from chimneys. Hardwoods are better because they burn hotter and form less creosote, an oily, black tar that sticks to chimneys and stove pipes. Most of us inhale far less smoke than our ancestors did, with their wood fires and poorly constructed chimneys, so it seems unlikely that ambient smoke can have caused the recent increase. The talk of the town was almost as important as the smoke of the factory chimneys in creating a prosperous industrial economy. About four o'clock, smoke would go up from the chimneys, as the fire was made up and the big iron boiler, or the three-legged pot, was slung on the hook of the chimney-chain. Check the flashings-the metal pieces used to waterproof interruptions in the roof plane such as pipes, chimneys and skylights. Above the red tile roofs, wisps of smoke drifted from the chimneys. Images are beamed into the ops center; the towers are smoking like chimneys over the furnaces of Hell. Synonyms stack, smokestack 1.1 The part of a chimney that extends above the roof; a chimney stack. Example sentencesExamples There are problems with the roof and chimney and tarmac paths surrounding the bungalow have been badly laid. It has the appearance of a permanent dwelling with a pitched roof and chimney. The outside of the house appeared to be a small cottage with a thatched roof and chimney. The houses and buildings of Thermis started getting closer and they could see the smoke rising out of the chimneys and above the tiled roofs of the town. The Drummonds chimney which towers high above Lumb Lane is one of Bradford's most distinctive landmarks. Most often his camera looks to where chimneys meet the sky above the decorative program of a building's exterior. Each line in a drawing, each passage through space, each timber in a structure, each chimney in a landscape, was located precisely and sized acutely. I want to take down an old, small chimney that is on the roof, and runs down between the living room and the kitchen. If the house is fairly tight, the simplest route for makeup air to enter the structure is often the unused fireplace chimney. What were simple functional parts of the building, now became highly pattered and ostentatious - as the chimneys above show. Looking ashore to Crosshaven, I could see the smoke lazily rising above the slate roofs from the town's many chimneys. It is the Defendants' case that the Zyklon-B pellets were fed into the chamber by means of wire mesh column which ran upwards through the roof of the chamber with the chimney protruding above roof level. Idande was sitting not far from me on the chimney, raised above my head, his legs dangling and swinging gently like a child might sit. Further on, the grey shape of a roof and chimney showed over the rise. The mushroom was white with red dots on the cap and an almost chimney like structure on the top. He scurried across the roof and ducked behind the great brick chimney just as his pursuers reached the window. Oh. It's just that I'm learning how to renovate the roof and chimney on the next house and it's thirsty going. Hiring an inspector at the end of the project is not in itself a bad idea since you are unlikely to crawl around the roof and discover there's no chimney flashing. The only real clue to its after-hours possibilities is a large graphic on top that contains a house symbol with familiar gabled roof and chimney. Synonyms stack, smokestack 1.2 A glass tube that protects the flame of a lamp. Example sentencesExamples Candles are an inexpensive and easy-to-store lighting option, but to be safe, use them with glass chimneys. Add a few drops of ammonia to the rinse water for glass lamps, chimneys, and globes. After getting the dust off the glass she lit the wide wick and replaced the chimney. Integral to this burner assembly is a cylindrical glass chimney, which is placed over the burner to induce two constant upward drafts. This can crack the chimney, allowing the flames to spread within the house. Afterwards we'd lie naked on the shadowy porch drinking beer and watching moths batter themselves against the lamp's chimney. I'd copied Max's Coleman, improving on the Sathe design by putting a pale glass bulb and chimney around a hollow wick. The improved draft system, utilizing a glass chimney, yielded a brighter light that burned more cleanly. Ms Tomlin said: ‘We have not been able to light that one yet because the chimney is capped with a piece of lead.’ It was cool and dark there, and on a low table by the bed there was already a kerosene lamp burning dully through its dirty chimney. Let's say the item being offered is a nice old oil lamp with an unblemished glass chimney and a base with some decoration that is in good shape. The flame in the chimney flickered barely, just breathing its existence into the room, then disappeared again. A thermal chimney between the glass layers exhausts heat gains at the top and prevents interior heat gains. 1.3 A steep narrow cleft by which a rock face may be climbed. Example sentencesExamples Climb the obvious chimney / groove near the left hand end of the crag, stepping left at the top to finish up the steep wall above on excellent holds. In his long career he has climbed most of the chimneys in Bradford and left his mark on the historic Lister's Mill in Manningham. The chimney pushes through the steep roofline and splits in two. Spider up a chimney, then climb easy ramps and short steps to the top. The rocks were greasy and slippery and the narrow chimneys and gullies, so delightful in dry summer conditions, were muddy and wet. This chimney was the only possible path available for us to take, unless we were to back track and find a different route, and in the process lose our last rays of sunlight. She whirled around as rocks fell from the chimney. This was followed by a level stretch of grassy scree which leads to the crux, a steep shallow chimney, well marked by crampon scratches. Above the chimney lies the Black Pyramid, a triangle of notoriously unstable slabs of ice and rock at about 24,500 feet. After a short crawl and a climb down a narrow chimney, South Chamber is reached. Sadly, I don't have photos of the chimney we climbed in the Red Banks. An offwidth is a crack which is too wide to use as a finger, hand or fist jam but too narrow to get right inside and climb as a chimney. As soon as he cleared the narrow neck of the chimney, his cave light locked on to Shaw, floating eerily upright, his arms spread and the back of his head and shoulders jammed against the ceiling. Making stemming moves with my feet and pushing against the rock with the palm of my hand I found myself in an awkward chimney position in an open flaring section off rock. Crawl through then traverse around the corner and along the small ledge to belay in the corner beneath the chimney. He went up and took a look at the cliff and rock chimneys above the pegmatites, but he didn't like heights. In these steep underwater cliff areas were chimneys of gravel that contained datolite nodules. It looked impossible to step onto the chimney directly above, as it was undercut at its base, and the surface was smooth, with no holds to be seen. The last pitch is a memorable chimney with a thorny bush that you have to climb through. From the recess next to the chimney climb up and left until you're right under the overhang. Origin Middle English (denoting a fireplace or furnace): from Old French cheminee ‘chimney, fireplace’, from late Latin caminata, perhaps from camera caminata ‘room with a fireplace’, from Latin caminus ‘forge, furnace’, from Greek kaminos ‘oven’.
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