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 chimney ['tʃimni]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 烟囱, 灯罩

[电] 烟囱


  1. The factory chimneys poured smoke into the air.
    工厂的烟囱向空中排烟。
  2. Volumes of black smoke poured fromthe chimney.
    烟囱里冒出来团团黑烟.
  3. Smoke puffed from the chimney.
    烟从烟囱里一股一股地喷出来.


chimney
[ noun ]
  1. a vertical flue that provides a path through which smoke from a fire is carried away through the wall or roof of a building

  2. <noun.artifact>
  3. a glass flue surrounding the wick of an oil lamp

  4. <noun.artifact>


Chimney \Chim"ney\, n.; pl. {Chimneys}. [F. chemin['e]e, LL.
caminata, fr. L. caminus furnace, fireplace, Gr. ? furnace,
oven.]
1. A fireplace or hearth. [Obs.] --Sir W. Raleigh.

2. That part of a building which contains the smoke flues;
esp. an upright tube or flue of brick or stone, in most
cases extending through or above the roof of the building.
Often used instead of chimney shaft.

Hard by a cottage chimney smokes. --Milton.

3. A tube usually of glass, placed around a flame, as of a
lamp, to create a draft, and promote combustion.

4. (Min.) A body of ore, usually of elongated form, extending
downward in a vein. --Raymond.

{Chimney board}, a board or screen used to close a fireplace;
a fireboard.

{Chimney cap}, a device to improve the draught of a chimney,
by presenting an exit aperture always to leeward.

{Chimney corner}, the space between the sides of the
fireplace and the fire; hence, the fireside.

{Chimney hook}, a hook for holding pats and kettles over a
fire,

{Chimney money}, hearth money, a duty formerly paid in
England for each chimney.

{Chimney pot} (Arch.), a cylinder of earthenware or sheet
metal placed at the top of a chimney which rises above the
roof.

{Chimney swallow}. (Zo["o]l.)
(a) An American swift ({Ch[ae]ture pelasgica}) which lives
in chimneys.
(b) In England, the common swallow ({Hirundo rustica}).

{Chimney sweep}, {Chimney sweeper}, one who cleans chimneys
of soot; esp. a boy who climbs the flue, and brushes off
the soot.

  1. The man apparently had been trying to get into the home through the chimney and became stuck, said Sid Stell, a spokesman for the Midwest City Police Department.
  2. A clogged chimney prevented the fumes from the gas furnace from escaping, Flynn said.
  3. About 12,000 bees, apparently swarming or looking for a new hive, had flown down the chimney and tried to take up residence in the Brehm house.
  4. In English: "Tomorrow the chimney sweep is coming."
  5. Four chimney stacks are dangerously unstable, 90 per cent of the masonry needs attention, the window frames are rotten, and many flats are damp. No local estate agents or solicitors will touch the place.
  6. The body literally cooked or baked." Keeno E. Exum, 27, was found Monday inside the 30-foot-high chimney of Mount Sinai Baptist Church.
  7. A man who was prowling at his estranged wife's house spent the night in her chimney and had inhaled so much soot he was unable to thank his rescuers Tuesday, authorities said.
  8. Pinson said Joseph and another boy apparently were beating on the chimney with sticks when it collapsed.
  9. The chimney was 16-by-16 inches in diameter, said Andress, who did not know what the man was doing in the chimney.
  10. The chimney was 16-by-16 inches in diameter, said Andress, who did not know what the man was doing in the chimney.
  11. "Work or up the chimney," inmates were told, in word and crushing deed, "the choice is yours."
  12. A naked man pulled from the Warwick Public Library's chimney wasn't Santa Claus and he wasn't spreading holiday cheer, police say.
  13. At Hungary's Dorog Incinerator there is more embarrassment in the air than fumes from the chimney.
  14. Some boys will make it into the chorus even if their singing isn't quite stellar because they're needed on stage as nonvocalizing lamplighters, chimney sweeps and masons' assistants.
  15. Lars-Gunnar Borjesson, vice president of the Swedish Master Sweep Association, said each region or city in Sweden has one master chimney sweep.
  16. It uses 'optical scintillation' technology to measure dust levels from the variation in a light beam across the chimney. However, not all the innovations at ET94 came from new companies.
  17. Unless local protest forces a climb-down, that idyllic vista will soon be interrupted by a chemical factory pumping 100,000 gallons of treated effluent into the Womanagh river every day, and by an incinerator chimney 80 feet high.
  18. Friday's Yangcheng Evening News, seen in Beijing today, said the 130-foot chimney was at a brick factory in Canton's Kaiping county.
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