Definizione monolingua

chimney

chimney (third-person singular simple present chimneys, present participle chimneying, simple past and past participle chimneyed)

1. (climbing) To negotiate a chimney (sense #4) by pushing against the sides with back, feet, hands, etc.

chimney (plural chimneys)

1. 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 hydro-carbon based fuels); a flue.
   • 1883: Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

     Our chimney was a square hole in the roof: it was but a little part of the smoke that found its way out, and the rest eddied about the house, and kept us coughing and piping the eye.

2. The glass flue surrounding the flame of an oil lamp.
3. (UK) The smokestack of a steam locomotive.
4. A narrow cleft in a rock face; a narrow vertical cave passage.

Definizione dizionario chimney

	camino
	narrow cleft in a rock face
	vertical tube or hollow column; a flue
	A vertical structure of brick, masonry, or steel that carries smoke or steam away from a fire, engine, etc. (Source: CED)

	fumaiolo
	glass flue surrounding the flame of an oil lamp
	UK: smokestack of a steam locomotive

	chimney
	A collection of offloaded protocol state objects and the semantics associated with them.

ciminiera

comignolo

fumaiuolo

Altri significati:

(UK) The smokestack of a steam locomotive.

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 hydro-carbon based fuels); a flue.

(climbing) To negotiate a chimney (sense #4) by pushing against the sides with back, feet, hands, etc.

funnel (of a ship)

The glass flue surrounding the flame of an oil lamp.

A narrow cleft in a rock face; a narrow vertical cave passage.