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单词 smokestack
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smokestackn.

Etymology: smoke n.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈsmoke-stack.
1. Chiefly U.S.
a. The funnel of a steamboat.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > propulsion machinery > [noun] > funnel
chimney1815
funnel1834
smokestack1859
smoke-head1915
society > occupation and work > industry > [adjective] > types of industry generally
heavy1888
light industrial1919
sheltered1924
military-industrial1925
Tayacian1934
footloose1939
linked1942
low technology1956
high technology1964
smokestack1976
old economy1990
1859 Harper's Mag. Apr. 606/1 The hoarse breath of the smoke stacks..came from the rosin-fed furnaces.
1862 W. H. Russell My Diary North & South I. 166 The funnel, Yankeeicé smoke stack.
1864 Daily Tel. 30 Aug. The Tennessee..surrendered, her rudder disabled, her smokestack carried away.
1903 J. Masefield Ballads 19 Dirty British coaster with a salt-caked smoke stack.
1942 E. Paul Narrow Street ix. 70 All tugs had smoke-stacks that could be tilted flat when the craft passed under a bridge.
1976 National Observer (U.S.) 7 Aug. 7/6 Her smokestacks are lowered..so she can get under some bridges.
b. The chimney of a locomotive.
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society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [noun] > locomotive > steam locomotive > chimney of
smokestack1875
chimney1878
exhaust stack1927
1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2227/1.
1890 Daily News 22 Sept. 5/5 The locomotive's smokestack was just out of the water.
2. The chimney of a stove; a chimney-stack.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > that which or one who heats > [noun] > a device for heating or warming > devices for heating buildings, rooms, etc. > chimney
tewelc1384
chimneyc1440
tun1463
lum1697
stack1825
smokestack1859
1859 Cairo City (Illinois) Gaz. 8 July 3/1 A number of mischievous boys,..lighting a bunch of fire crackers,..threw them into the smoke stack.
1871 Daily News 9 Feb. Carrying the smoke-stack of a stove through the aperture.
1903 Westm. Gaz. 27 Jan. 7/1 The brick smoke-stack of the stoke-house.

Draft additions 1993

smokestack industry n. originally U.S. any of the heavy manufacturing industries, typically coal-powered and associated with high levels of pollution and outmoded technology (usually in plural); also absol. used attributively, of, pertaining to, or characterized by the smokestack industries, as smokestack city, smokestack economy, etc.
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society > occupation and work > industry > [noun] > types of industry generally
rural industry1735
heavies1900
sunset1906
cottage industry1911
light industry1916
heavy industry1932
resource industry1938
nuclear industry1954
growth industry1957
space industry1957
knowledge industry1959
sex industry1965
sunrise1972
smokestack industry1979
Tayacian1979
sausage fest1995
1979 Business Week 31 Dec. 118/2 The mostly bedrock, smokestack industry stocks that make up the Dow held little fascination for investors.
1980 N.Y. Times 24 Aug. i. 38/1 Now, with fewer resources to spend..the odds are to go with the winners... ‘The smokestack cities’ face the most problems, Mr. Sternlieb said.
1982 in Amer. Speech (1983) 58 179 This is not a smokestack economy as it was 10 years ago.
1983 Chicago Sun-Times 21 May 13 The new cliches about the decline of ‘smokestack industries’ have dramatic power when you drive past the miles of cold, quiet stacks along Lake Erie.
1985 Sunday Times 4 Aug. 51 Those lorries with gas cylinders, associated with the bygone days of smokestack industries, are also less important.
1988 Business Rev. Weekly 8 Apr. 6/2 For the past 10 years or so smokestack industries have been unpopular because they have been seen as pollutors of the environment.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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