Chimney vs. Smokestack — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Chimney and Smokestack
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Chimney
A chimney is an architectural ventilation structure made of masonry, clay or metal that isolates hot toxic exhaust gases or smoke produced by a boiler, stove, furnace, incinerator or fireplace from human living areas. Chimneys are typically vertical, or as near as possible to vertical, to ensure that the gases flow smoothly, drawing air into the combustion in what is known as the stack, or chimney effect.
Smokestack
A large chimney or vertical pipe through which combustion vapors, gases, and smoke are discharged.
Chimney
A passage through which smoke and gases escape from a fire or furnace; a flue.
Smokestack
Of, relating to, or being firms, industries, or places involved in heavy manufacturing or in the processing of materials
Smokestack industries such as steel and iron.
Chimney
The usually vertical structure containing a chimney.
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Smokestack
A conduit or group of conduits atop a structure allowing smoke to flow out, as on a steam locomotive, ship, factory, or power plant using fossil fuels.
Chimney
The part of such a structure that rises above a roof.
Smokestack
A chimney; esp., a pipe serving as a chimney, as the pipe which carries off the smoke of a locomotive, the funnel of a steam vessel, etc.
Chimney
Chiefly British A smokestack, as of a ship or locomotive.
Smokestack
A large tall chimney through which combustion gases and smoke can be evacuated
Chimney
A glass tube for enclosing the flame of a lamp.
Chimney
Something, such as a narrow cleft in a cliff, resembling a chimney.
Chimney
A vertical tube or hollow column used to emit environmentally polluting gaseous and solid matter (including but not limited to by-products of burning carbon- or hydrocarbon-based fuels); a flue.
Chimney
The glass flue surrounding the flame of an oil lamp.
Chimney
(British) The smokestack of a steam locomotive.
Chimney
A narrow cleft in a rock face; a narrow vertical cave passage.
Chimney
A vagina.
Chimney
A black eye; a shiner.
Chimney
(climbing) To negotiate a chimney (narrow vertical cave passage) by pushing against the sides with back, feet, hands, etc.
Chimney
A fireplace or hearth.
Chimney
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.
Chimney
A tube usually of glass, placed around a flame, as of a lamp, to create a draft, and promote combustion.
Chimney
A body of ore, usually of elongated form, extending downward in a vein.
Chimney
A vertical flue that provides a path through which smoke from a fire is carried away through the wall or roof of a building
Chimney
A glass flue surrounding the wick of an oil lamp
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