Chimney
noun
A vertical structure on top of a building through which smoke and gases escape from a fire or furnace.
Smoke rose from the chimney of the house.
Often appears as...
- smoke from the chimney
- chimney sweep
noun
A narrow, high rock formation that looks like a chimney.
He climbed to the top of the rock chimney.
Often appears as...
- rock chimney
- chimney formation
noun
In a glass factory, a furnace for softening glass when it has become stiff in offhand working and for fire-polishing glass.
The glass is heated in the chimney before it's shaped.
Often appears as...
- glass chimney
- chimney furnace
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Technical
noun
A part of a locomotive from which smoke expels.
The steam locomotive belched smoke from its chimney.
Often appears as...
- locomotive chimney
- chimney smoke
noun
A vertical channel or pipe in an oil well or an oil rig that permits fluid to move upwards.
The oil moved upwards through the rig's chimney.
Often appears as...
- oil rig chimney
- well chimney
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A vertical structure on top of a building through which smoke and gases escape from a fire or furnace.
Smoke rose from the chimney of the house.
Often appears as...
- smoke from the chimney
- chimney sweep
noun
A narrow, high rock formation that looks like a chimney.
He climbed to the top of the rock chimney.
Often appears as...
- rock chimney
- chimney formation
noun
In a glass factory, a furnace for softening glass when it has become stiff in offhand working and for fire-polishing glass.
The glass is heated in the chimney before it's shaped.
Often appears as...
- glass chimney
- chimney furnace
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A part of a locomotive from which smoke expels.
The steam locomotive belched smoke from its chimney.
Often appears as...
- locomotive chimney
- chimney smoke
noun
A vertical channel or pipe in an oil well or an oil rig that permits fluid to move upwards.
The oil moved upwards through the rig's chimney.
Often appears as...
- oil rig chimney
- well chimney
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 5
Pro Tip 1/3Home Imagery
Associated with coziness, warmth or a homely atmosphere.
The cabin had a comforting glow, with smoke curling from its chimney.
Pro Tip 2/3Santa's Entry
Culturally, often mentioned in stories as where Santa enters a house.
Kids hung stockings by the fireplace, hoping Santa would come down the chimney.
Pro Tip 3/3Industrial Era
Symbol of industry due to its association with factories and steam engines.
The city's skyline was dotted with chimneys from numerous factories.
Pro Tip 1/3Home Imagery
Associated with coziness, warmth or a homely atmosphere.
The cabin had a comforting glow, with smoke curling from its chimney.
Pro Tip 2/3Santa's Entry
Culturally, often mentioned in stories as where Santa enters a house.
Kids hung stockings by the fireplace, hoping Santa would come down the chimney.
Pro Tip 3/3Industrial Era
Symbol of industry due to its association with factories and steam engines.
The city's skyline was dotted with chimneys from numerous factories.
Pro Tip 1/3Home Imagery
Associated with coziness, warmth or a homely atmosphere.
The cabin had a comforting glow, with smoke curling from its chimney.
Pro Tip 2/3Santa's Entry
Culturally, often mentioned in stories as where Santa enters a house.
Kids hung stockings by the fireplace, hoping Santa would come down the chimney.
Pro Tip 3/3Industrial Era
Symbol of industry due to its association with factories and steam engines.
The city's skyline was dotted with chimneys from numerous factories.
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Fossil fuel companies...
The simplest option is to capture the carbon dioxide as it's generated from the chimney of a power station, or blast furnace, or refinery. You purify it, compress it, and re-inject it back underground. If you inject it deep enough and into the right rock formations, it stays there, just like the hydrocarbons it came from.
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Floating cities, the...
we are right now finishing this waste-to-energy power plant. It's going to be the cleanest waste-to-energy power plant in the world, there are no toxins coming out of the chimney. An amazing marvel of engineering that is completely invisible. So we thought, how can we express this?
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Natalie Jeremijenko:...
the transmission qualities of the atmosphere. Carbon black is that grime that otherwise lodges in your pretty pink lungs, and it's associated with. It's not good stuff, and it's from inefficient combustion, not from combustion itself. When we put it through our solar chimney,
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Sanga Moses: Using Waste...
remodify them and give them a chimney, and design them in a way that limits the amount of oxygen that goes into the combustion process. We go back to the villages, find farmers with the help of local leaders, train these farmers how to use these kilns,
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How art can help you...
that invites analysis not unlike that required of a patient's symptoms or the scene of a crime. A miniature train whose origin and destination are unknown is emerging from a fireplace, and the smoke from the locomotive appears to flow up the chimney
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Solar System Exploration:...
what they found was that life doesn't just exist at these hydrothermal vents life thrives you can see in some of this video that there are microbes around the chimneys you see the whites and the yellows and stuff those are all microbes there's a
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Swarm of Ants Flies For...
just beneath the surface is a network of chambers and linking tunnels from these a single vertical chimney extends 2 meters down into the concrete hard earth to reach the colonies nerve center this deep the soil is still moist the air
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How to rebuild the world...
the camera to come in nice and close so I'm covering myself in some of that newspaper coming out as ash I've gonna take off this chimney and being careful of your eyebrows there and the Ted camera more importantly you should be
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Ghostly Yeti Crab Swarms...
in a car wash they even spotted a colorless octopus one of the rarest finds on the team's expedition it's about two feet long and was filmed walking around on the sea floor black smoke or chimneys in the cold
Video examples
Earth's Hidden Volcanos...
known as deep sea vents superheated by magma they erupt with mineral-rich water forming chimneys up to 18 stories tall
Video examples
Fossil fuel companies...
The simplest option is to capture the carbon dioxide as it's generated from the chimney of a power station, or blast furnace, or refinery. You purify it, compress it, and re-inject it back underground. If you inject it deep enough and into the right rock formations, it stays there, just like the hydrocarbons it came from.
Video examples
Floating cities, the...
we are right now finishing this waste-to-energy power plant. It's going to be the cleanest waste-to-energy power plant in the world, there are no toxins coming out of the chimney. An amazing marvel of engineering that is completely invisible. So we thought, how can we express this?
Video examples
Natalie Jeremijenko:...
the transmission qualities of the atmosphere. Carbon black is that grime that otherwise lodges in your pretty pink lungs, and it's associated with. It's not good stuff, and it's from inefficient combustion, not from combustion itself. When we put it through our solar chimney,
Video examples
Sanga Moses: Using Waste...
remodify them and give them a chimney, and design them in a way that limits the amount of oxygen that goes into the combustion process. We go back to the villages, find farmers with the help of local leaders, train these farmers how to use these kilns,
Video examples
How art can help you...
that invites analysis not unlike that required of a patient's symptoms or the scene of a crime. A miniature train whose origin and destination are unknown is emerging from a fireplace, and the smoke from the locomotive appears to flow up the chimney
Video examples
Solar System Exploration:...
what they found was that life doesn't just exist at these hydrothermal vents life thrives you can see in some of this video that there are microbes around the chimneys you see the whites and the yellows and stuff those are all microbes there's a
Video examples
Swarm of Ants Flies For...
just beneath the surface is a network of chambers and linking tunnels from these a single vertical chimney extends 2 meters down into the concrete hard earth to reach the colonies nerve center this deep the soil is still moist the air
Video examples
How to rebuild the world...
the camera to come in nice and close so I'm covering myself in some of that newspaper coming out as ash I've gonna take off this chimney and being careful of your eyebrows there and the Ted camera more importantly you should be
Video examples
Ghostly Yeti Crab Swarms...
in a car wash they even spotted a colorless octopus one of the rarest finds on the team's expedition it's about two feet long and was filmed walking around on the sea floor black smoke or chimneys in the cold
Video examples
Earth's Hidden Volcanos...
known as deep sea vents superheated by magma they erupt with mineral-rich water forming chimneys up to 18 stories tall
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Quote examples
Tim Walker
British Photographer
Even the pictures I was doing at college - a little narrative based on a butterfly catcher, or a chimney sweep - the images were always telling stories. They were all scenarios and moods which I storyboarded and worked through - it's exactly what I do now.
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Oti Mabuse
South African Dancer
I was born and raised in Pretoria. Nobody ever really talked about Santa because the whole concept just didn't make sense to us. Think about what South Africa looks like: I mean, we don't even have any chimneys for him to come down!
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Rebecca Harding Davis
American Author
Sitting by the chimney corner as we grow old, the commonest things around us take on live meanings and hint at the difference between these driving times and the calm, slow moving days when we were young.
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Richard Morris Hunt
American Architect
Your goal is to achieve the best results by following their wishes. If they want you to build a house upside down standing on its chimney, it's up to you to do it.
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Tony Pulis
Welsh Manager
I always think the best players come from the areas where there are loads of chimney pots, where they have been brought up a little bit tougher than the others.
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Benjamin Franklin
American Politician
Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.
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Kyle Dunnigan
American Comedian
Every year, dads will dress up as Santa and try to surprise their kids by coming down the chimney, and every year, a dad gets stuck and dies.
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Mickey Spillane
American Author
Authors want their names down in history; I want to keep the smoke coming out of the chimney.
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Christopher Columbus
Italian Explorer
Their houses are all built in the shape of tents, with very high chimneys.
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Malorie Blackman
British Writer
I work in my attic, and the view is next door's chimney stack.
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Tim Walker
British Photographer
Even the pictures I was doing at college - a little narrative based on a butterfly catcher, or a chimney sweep - the images were always telling stories. They were all scenarios and moods which I storyboarded and worked through - it's exactly what I do now.
Quote examples
Oti Mabuse
South African Dancer
I was born and raised in Pretoria. Nobody ever really talked about Santa because the whole concept just didn't make sense to us. Think about what South Africa looks like: I mean, we don't even have any chimneys for him to come down!
Quote examples
Rebecca Harding Davis
American Author
Sitting by the chimney corner as we grow old, the commonest things around us take on live meanings and hint at the difference between these driving times and the calm, slow moving days when we were young.
Quote examples
Richard Morris Hunt
American Architect
Your goal is to achieve the best results by following their wishes. If they want you to build a house upside down standing on its chimney, it's up to you to do it.
Quote examples
Tony Pulis
Welsh Manager
I always think the best players come from the areas where there are loads of chimney pots, where they have been brought up a little bit tougher than the others.
Quote examples
Benjamin Franklin
American Politician
Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.
Quote examples
Kyle Dunnigan
American Comedian
Every year, dads will dress up as Santa and try to surprise their kids by coming down the chimney, and every year, a dad gets stuck and dies.
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Mickey Spillane
American Author
Authors want their names down in history; I want to keep the smoke coming out of the chimney.
Quote examples
Christopher Columbus
Italian Explorer
Their houses are all built in the shape of tents, with very high chimneys.
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Malorie Blackman
British Writer
I work in my attic, and the view is next door's chimney stack.
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