chimney
part of speech
noun (a chimney, chimneys)
meaning for a pupil
1) A chimney is a tall pipe or structure that carries smoke and hot gases from a fire or stove up and out through the roof. tree →
2) A chimney is also the part of it that sticks up above the roof. tree →
sense in the lessons
In houses with fireplaces, smoke goes up the chimney; in stories Father Christmas comes down the chimney, and factories have tall chimneys. In science and safety: chimneys must be cleaned, because soot can catch fire. Phrases: chimney sweep, smoke from the chimney, smoke like a chimney, chimney pot.
examples
- Smoke rose from the chimney of the little cottage. tree →
- In the story, Santa slid down the chimney. tree →
- A bird built a nest on top of the chimney. tree →
- The chimney sweep cleaned out the black soot. tree →
- The factory had two tall brick chimneys. tree →
- Grandpa used to smoke like a chimney, but he stopped. tree →
- We could see chimneys on every roof in the street. tree →
- All the chimneys in the town were smoking. tree →
note
Countable: a chimney, chimneys (just add «s», because the y follows a vowel). Trap: it is spelt «chimney», and people sometimes wrongly say «chimbley» or «chimley».
In the corpora
- Raccoons are common in North American cities like Toronto, where they raid bins and nest in attics and chimneys.
- Badger has also sent Otter, disguised as a chimney-sweep, to the back door.
- They flee through the windows, up the chimney, anywhere away from those sticks.
- Well might the ferrets rush wildly for the fireplace and get hopelessly jammed in the chimney!»
- And poor Bill the Lizard is sent down the chimney, just as real small boys were sent up chimneys to clean them.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «chimney» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.