smokestack

Noun

Meaning

A chimney; esp., a pipe serving as a chimney, as the pipe which carries off the smoke of a locomotive, the funnel of a steam vessel, etc.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

stack hood fireside chase modern business fire flue mantel deal technical channel mechanical tube passage
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Antonyms

whit pennyworth domestic halfpenny little bit defined band of
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Hypernyms

chimney

Hyponyms

funnel

Examples

HISTORICAL SLUMMING: the act of visiting locations such as diners, smokestack industrial sites, rural villageslocations where time appears to have been frozen many years backso as to experience relief when one returns back to'the present'. Douglas Coupland

There's a smokestack on the back of every government program. Milton Friedman

The Soviet Union and its empire disappeared in large part because its smokestack economy could no longer keep up with the technological progress of the world's major economic powers. John Mearsheimer

I always loved smokestack industry, and I love towns or cities that have grown up around factories. David Lynch

And there was this sergeant in mortars, big redhead, damn if he couldn’t put an eighty-one down a smokestack at maximum range.” Source: Internet

To make the vessel more seaworthy a convert funnel shaped smokestack was placed over the smoke outlet while taller fresh air vents were installed. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

smokeshop smokeshow smokesploitation smokestack industry smoketight smoketree