chimney

Significado (Inglés)

Noun

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 hydrocarbon-based fuels); a flue.
2. The glass flue surrounding the flame of an oil lamp.
3. (British) The smokestack of a steam locomotive.
4. A narrow cleft in a rock face; a narrow vertical cave passage.
5. (euphemistic, vulgar) A vagina.
6. (Northern-Ireland, slang) A black eye; a shiner.

Verb

To negotiate a chimney (narrow vertical cave passage) by pushing against the sides with back, feet, hands, etc.

Conceptos

chimenea

hogar

🏠

olla

tubo

tubo de lámpara

chimeneas

chimenea de quinqué

bombilla

tubo de cristal

cañón

Sinónimos

smokestack

stovepipe

funnel

flue

stack

fireplace

lamp chimney

pipe

window

🪟

hole

🕳️

hearth

neck

oven

profound

shaft

smoke pipe

stock

torch

uptake

vent

volcano

🌋

chimney stack

lamp shade

smoke vent

lamp house

diatreme

smoke stack

smokestock

sound bow

chimney ore body

lamp screen

lamp glass

heating tube

ore pipe

barrel

ore chimney

bubble

bulb

💡

cask

craw

crop

crown

👑

dome

fume

gizzard

Traducciones

cheminée

Schornstein

camino

Kamin

schoorsteen

chaminé

Schlot

καπνοδόχος

xemeneia

ciminiera

Rauchfang

Esse

καμινάδα

schouw

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈt͡ʃɪmni/

Etimología (Inglés)

Heredado de inglés medio: chymeney

In summary

From Middle English chymeney, chymney, chymne, from Old French cheminee, from Late Latin camīnāta, from Latin camīnus, from Ancient Greek κάμῑνος (kámīnos, “furnace”). Doublet of chimenea.