smokestack
pronunciation
How to pronounce smokestack in British English:
UK [ˈsməʊkstæk]
How to pronounce smokestack in American English:
US [ˈsmoʊkstæk]
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- Noun:
- a large tall chimney through which combustion gases and smoke can be evacuated
Word Origin
- smokestack (n.)
- also smoke-stack, 1833, from smoke (n.1) + stack (n.).
Example
- 1. Men in suits watch an experimental smog-control device on a smokestack in 1948 .
- 2. Enel advertisements for the project show a young girl erasing a plant 's smokestack .
- 3. The president 's keen interest in making things is more than just smokestack nostalgia .
- 4. But those assumptions are based on emissions from the tailpipe or smokestack and don 't account for the methane and other pollution emitted when gas is extracted and piped to power plants and other customers .
- 5. At the other end of shenzhen from longgang , no smoke is visible from the towering smokestack of the baoan incinerator , built by a company owned by the municipal government .