Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - chimney
Chimney
chimney
n. (pl. -eys) 1 a vertical channel conducting smoke or combustion gases etc. up and away from a fire, furnace, engine, etc. 2 the part of this which projects above a roof. 3 a glass tube protecting the flame of a lamp. 4 a narrow vertical crack in a rock-face, often used by mountaineers to ascend. Phrases and idioms chimney-breast a projecting interior wall surrounding a chimney. chimney-piece an ornamental structure around an open fireplace; a mantelpiece. chimney-pot an earthenware or metal pipe at the top of a chimney, narrowing the aperture and increasing the up draught. chimney-stack 1 a number of chimneys grouped in one structure. 2 = sense 2. chimney-sweep a person whose job is removing soot from inside chimneys. Etymology: ME f. OF chemin{eacute}e f. LL caminata having a fire-place, f. L caminus f. Gk kaminos oven CHIMP n. colloq. = CHIMPANZEE. Etymology: abbr.
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noun (plural ~s) Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French chiminee, from Late Latin caminata, from Latin caminus furnace, fireplace, from Greek kaminos; perhaps akin to Greek kamara vault Date: 14th century fireplace, hearth, a vertical structure incorporated into a building and enclosing a flue or flues that carry off smoke, smokestack, a tube usually of glass placed around a flame (as of a lamp), something resembling a ~: as, a narrow cleft or passage in rock, a tall column of rock on the ocean floor that is formed by the precipitation of minerals from superheated water issuing from a vent in the earth's crust and rising through the column of rock, ~like adjective ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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