chimney

Senso (Inglese)

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.

Concetti

camino

ciminiera

fumaiolo

caminetto

canna fumaria

cammino

🚶

comignolo

fumaiuolo

tubo

chimney

sinonimi

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

Traduzioni

cheminée

chimenea

Schornstein

Kamin

schoorsteen

chaminé

Schlot

καπνοδόχος

xemeneia

Rauchfang

Esse

καμινάδα

schouw

baca

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/ˈt͡ʃɪmni/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da inglese 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.