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smokestack

/smohk-stak/US // ˈsmoʊkˌstæk //UK // (ˈsməʊkˌstæk) //

烟囱,烟烟囱,烟筒,烟尘

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Also called stack. a pipe for the escape of the smoke or gases of combustion, as on a steamboat, locomotive, or building.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : pertaining to, engaged in, or dependent on a basic heavy industry, as steel or automaking: smokestack companies.

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Examples

  • For instance, they hunted down the locations of industrial smokestacks.

  • The plants are turned on when the need for electricity peaks, which tends to occur in the steamy summer months, igniting rows of fume-spewing smokestacks during peak electricity usage.

  • After the fall of factories, knowledge has become the new face of capitalism with university bell towers lauded as the smokestacks of today’s cities.

  • When David asks about the smoke rising from a smokestack at the plant, his father tells him that that’s where the male chicks are burned.

  • That’s why another option is to combine hydrogen with carbon—which can be captured from the atmosphere in a process called air capture or from smokestacks—to produce liquid synthetic hydrocarbon fuels that are easier to handle than hydrogen.

  • Americans learned to look at a smokestack and see dying trees and fish downwind.

  • Poison comes out of a smokestack and, downwind, birds fall from the sky.

  • You seem to be finding a great deal to interest you in that smokestack, young man!

  • Railroads cause fires by their locomotives sending out sparks through the smokestack or dropping hot ashes along the right-of-way.

  • Sampson had called his sleeping companion, and already the black smoke began to pour out of the smokestack.

  • Immediately the boat listed and threw him away from the window, after which he sought a place of safety behind the smokestack.

  • Soon after, a heavy roll of the vessel broke the smokestack, and it was pitched overboard.