单词 | smokestack |
释义 | smokestackn. 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.1859 |
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