| 单词 | smokestack |
| 释义 | smokestack (once / 13906 pages) n The chimney on top of a factory or a ship can be called a smokestack. If you look at Google Images for the word "pollution," you'll see lots of pictures of smokestacks spewing thick, gray smoke. The main difference between the words chimney and smokestack is that you're more likely to call the flue on top of your house a chimney, saving smokestack for more industrial uses. Steam locomotives used smokestacks to release smoke and steam — the exhaust from the train's smokebox. Without the smokestack, the pressure would become dangerously high inside the train, causing it to explode. WORD FAMILYsmokestack: smokestacks USAGE EXAMPLES“I worry that people will think all warehouses are smokestacks. A lot of warehouses and creative spaces are run really well.” Los Angeles Times(Dec 31, 2016) Actual pollution from the smokestack — by far the greatest source of carbon pollution from wood energy — is overlooked. Salon(Dec 25, 2016) Dumb policy would be to fire up the smokestacks, stop collecting all that annoying climate data and marginalize federal employees who best understand global warming. Washington Post(Dec 15, 2016) n a large tall chimney through which combustion gases and smoke can be evacuated Syn|Hypo|Hyper stack funnel (nautical) smokestack consisting of a shaft for ventilation or the passage of smoke (especially the smokestack of a ship) 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 |
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