chimney

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈt͡ʃɪmni/|/ˈt͡ʃɪməni/    美 /ˈt͡ʃɪmni/|/ˈt͡ʃɪməni/

英文释义

名词 n.
  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.
    — Our chimney was a square hole in the roof: it was but a little part of the smoke that found its way out, and the rest eddied about the house, and kept us coughing and piping the eye.
  2. The glass flue surrounding the flame of an oil lamp.
    — By next winter he was spending every evening poring over the work of Théodore Agrippa d'Aubigné on the French Reformation by the light of a little oil lamp, with a tiny cistern the size of an orange and no chimney[.]
  3. The smokestack of a steam locomotive. UK
  4. A narrow cleft in a rock face; a narrow vertical cave passage.
  5. A vagina. euphemistic,vulgar
  6. A black eye; a shiner. Northern-Ireland,slang
动词 v.
  1. To negotiate a chimney (narrow vertical cave passage) by pushing against the sides with back, feet, hands, etc.

词形变化

chimneys plural chimnies archaic,plural chimley alternative,dialectal chimbley alternative,dialectal chimneys present,singular,third-person chimneying participle,present chimneyed participle,past chimneyed past chimley alternative,dialectal chimbley alternative,dialectal

词汇关系

衍生词
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词源

词源 1
From Middle English chymeneye, chymneye, chymene, from Old French cheminee, from Late Latin camīnāta, from Latin camīnus, from Ancient Greek κάμῑνος (kámīnos, “furnace”). Doublet of chimenea.
词源 2
From Middle English chymeneye, chymneye, chymene, from Old French cheminee, from Late Latin camīnāta, from Latin camīnus, from Ancient Greek κάμῑνος (kámīnos, “furnace”). Doublet of chimenea.
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