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chimney stack

noun

Definition of chimney stack

as in chimney

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Recent Examples of chimney stack As logs burn down, their embers are moved from the central chimney stack to a structure of flattops and grates. — Elazar Sontag, Washington Post, 23 July 2026 Two enormous chimney stacks, about 5050 feet tall, in the Liddell coal power plant came crashing down last month. — Ian Dexter Palmer, Forbes.com, 9 June 2026 The starter home of William and Middleton features white stone walls and a slate roof with a trio of chimney stacks. — Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 2 Feb. 2026 Walls that catch a lot of rain, chimney stacks, and windows are all common entry points for water. — Timothy Dale, The Spruce, 27 Jan. 2026

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Noun

When to Call a Professional Reach out to a professional if the raccoon is somewhere inside the house like an attic, chimney, or crawlspace.

— Michelle Mastro, Martha Stewart, 30 Aug. 2026
Sutter health officials cautioned residents to avoid contact with wild animals, place screens on all windows and install chimney caps.

— Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of chimney

Noun

Ray is also an alcoholic, hiding bottles in a toilet tank, an attic, a fireplace flue, even filling a soda bottle with booze for his workout.

— Richard Brody, New Yorker, 12 June 2026
Chinese media described the process as a closed system in which flue gas enters one end of the pipeline and fertiliser emerges from the other.

— Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 17 May 2026

Definition of flue

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Her final studio album, 2023’s Rockstar, was a smokestack of rock and metal covers and duets.

— Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 26 Aug. 2026
Its skyline is dominated by towering smokestacks, hulking arrays of metal tubes and bright flames erupting from flares at petrochemical plants in the global plastics supply chain.

— Michael Hawthorne, Chicago Tribune, 23 Aug. 2026

Definition of smokestack

Noun

Hundreds of acres of land owned by the Port were rezoned for industrial use, hooked up to new water and waste pipes, and powered by substations installed near the Port after Neal lobbied the local utilities.

— Sean Patrick Cooper, Rolling Stone, 24 Nov. 2025
Pay attention to where the kitchen and bathrooms are, too—water supply and waste pipes for the second floor are often found in walls on the first floor, below sinks, tubs, or showers.

— Kevin Cortez, Popular Mechanics, 25 May 2023

Definition of waste pipe

Noun

Aguas de La Habana, the state utilities company in the capital, issues daily updates to clients on service interruptions caused by electricity cuts or burst pipes.

— Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 31 Aug. 2026
The project is expected to start sending water into city pipes as soon as early 2029.

— Alex Hager, NPR, 31 Aug. 2026

Definition of pipe

Noun

Shampoo can come in a rigid plastic bottle, a flexible squeeze tube, a refillable metal canister or a solid bar in a paperboard box.

— Erin Victor, The Conversation, 25 Aug. 2026
One photo showed a boat cruising between towering canyon walls, while another captured a tube ride across the water.

— Lauryn Overhultz, FOXNews.com, 24 Aug. 2026

Definition of tube

Noun

During the protest, participants wore wedding dresses, duct-taped their mouths and chained their wrists on the Capitol steps to call on lawmakers to pass the measure.

— Sofia Williams, Sacbee.com, 25 Aug. 2026
Television guitarist and co-founder Richard Lloyd has been diagnosed with bile-duct cancer, and a GoFundMe has been launched to assist him and his family in covering his medical expenses.

— Jaeden Pinder, Rolling Stone, 24 Aug. 2026

Definition of duct

Noun

Otherwise, after decades of exclusion, Syria could return to the regional map merely as a fragile conduit for others’ commercial exploits.

— Jesse Marks, Foreign Affairs, 31 Aug. 2026
Vessels have continued to endure more attacks for sailing through the conduit, which before the war in Iran harbored as much as 20 percent of the world’s oil supply.

— Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 27 Aug. 2026

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