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Definition: Smokestack |
SmokestackNoun1. A large tall chimney through which combustion gases and smoke can be evacuated. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "smokestack" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1903. (references) |
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Food & Agriculture | A metal trunk through which the combustion gases are led from the uptakes to the open air. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: SmokestackSynonym: stack (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Airpipe | Noun: air pipe, air tube; airhole, blowhole, breathinghole, venthole; shaft, flue, chimney, funnel, vent, nostril, nozzle, throat, weasand, trachea; bronchus, bronchia; larynx, tonsils, windpipe, spiracle; ventiduct, ventilator; louvre, jalousie, Venetian blinds; blowpipe. (wind); pipe. (tube); jhilmil; smokestack. |
Opening | Way, path; thoroughfare; channel; passage, passageway; tube, pipe; water pipe; air pipe; vessel, tubule, canal, gut, fistula; adjutage, ajutage; ostium; smokestack; chimney, flue, tap, funnel, gully, tunnel, main; mine, pit, adit, shaft; gallery. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Smokestack |
| English words defined with "smokestack": Breeching ♦ funnel ♦ spark arrester, sparker. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "smokestack": Air Pollution Control Device ♦ Nonpoint source pollution ♦ rigging screw ♦ smoke tester ♦ turnbuckle. (references) |
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 | Crewmen on deck amidships, in 1863-65. This view looks forward from in front of the pilothouse, with the starboard smokestack in the left background. The name "Choctaw" is visible on the cap ribbons of some of these men. Credit: NAVY. |  | At anchor off Shinagawa, Japan, on 4-10 October 1935. The three bands painted on her after smokestack signify that she is the third ship of the 6th Sentai (squadron). The cruisers Aoba and Kinugasa, also members of Sentai 6, are in the left distance. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Man holding up card with different shades in front of smokestack, in order to identify the extent of air pollution. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Unknown location. Battered smokestack from C.S.S. ironclad ram Virginia No. 2. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | S.S. M.W. [i.e. Howard M.] Hanna, rear cabin and stub of smokestack after storm. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Riverscape with smokestack, probably the Huron River, Ypsilanti, Mich. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Production. Zinc. Smokestack of a large zinc-lead smelting plant. From the Eagle-Picher plant near Cardin, Oklahoma, come great quantities of zinc and lead to serve many important purposes in the war effort. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Lumber camp locomotive. Forest County, Wisconsin. Note special smokestack to catch sparks. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Miscellaneous subjects. Smokestack in field. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Train yard, Washington, D.C. Trains, tracks and smokestack. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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 | Factory; manufacturing; manufacture; industry; industrial; automated; factory-made; industry; industrialized; machine-made; manufactured; manufacturing; mechanical; mechanized; smokestack; streamlined; assembly line. |
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| "Smokestack" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 87.50% of the time. "Smokestack" is used about 16 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 87.5% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 6.25% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 6.25% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 16 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "smokestack": smokestack industries ♦ smokestack industry. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "smokestack": Smokestack-america. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
smokestack | 32 |
smokestack lightning | 8 |
barbecue smokestack | 4 |
maintenance smokestack | 3 |
the smokestack restaurant | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "smokestack"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | oxhak (chimney, family, fire place, kin, noble stock). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مدخنة (brazier, chimney, funnel, stack). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | кюнец (chimney, stovepipe), комин (chimney, chimney stack, shaft, vent), висок комин. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 烟窗. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | komín (chimney, stack). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | skorsten (chimney, fireplace, hearth). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | schoorsteen (chimney, fireplace, hearth). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | kamentubo (chimney), fumtubo (chimney). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | دودکش کشتی , دودکش لکوموتیو, دودکش ساختمان . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | savutorvi (chimney). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | cheminée (smoke pipe, smoke stack). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Schornstein (chimney, funnel, stack). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | καπναγωγός σωλήνας (funnel, smoke pipe, stack), καπνοδόχοσ (chimney, flue, funnel, stack), καπνοδόχος (chimney, flue, funnel, pen, smoke pipe, smoke stack, stack), φουγάρο (funnel, smoke stack). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מעש " (chimney, funnel, louver, stack), ארוב" (chimney, flue, louver, stack, window). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kémény (chimney, chimney-pot, chimney-stack, flue, funnel, stack, vent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | cerobong (chimmey). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | fumaiuolo (chimney). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 煙塵 (battle scene, dust, smokestack smoke). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | え"じ" (ape man, battle scene, circle, dust, eunuch, misanthropy, ring, smokestack smoke). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 굴뚝 (Chimney, Chimneys, flue). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | okestacksmay chaminé (chimney, fireplace, funnel, hearth, lamp-chimney). (various references) дымовая труба (chimney-stalk, funnel, smoke-stack, stack). (various references) sulundar, dimnjak (chimney, funnel, stack). (various references) chimenea (bawl, chimney, fireplace, fireside, hearth, howl, pipe). (various references) skorsten (chimney, chimney stack, chimneypot, funnel, stack), fabriksskorsten (chimney stalk). (various references) ปล่องควันสูง. (various references) baca (chimney, chimney stack, flue, funnel, pipe, shaft, stack). (various references) димова труба (stack). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "smokestack": smokestacks. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "smokestack" (pronounced smō"ksta'k) |
| 4 | -s t a' k | haystack. |
| 3 | -t a' k | counterattack, hackmatack. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-k-k-m-o-s-s-t" | |
-3 letters: caskets, comakes, comates, mascots, sockets. | |
-4 letters: ascots, cameos, casket, castes, cestas, cestos, coasts, comake, comate, comets, comtes, cosets, cosset, costae, escots, mascot, sameks, skates, smacks, smocks, smokes, socket, stacks, stakes, steaks, steams, stocks, stokes, stomas. | |
-5 letters: acmes, amoks, ascot, askos, asset, atoms, cakes, cameo, cames, cases, casks, caste, casts, cates, cesta, coast, coats. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-k-k-m-o-s-s-t" | |
+1 letter: smokestacks. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 6D 6F 6B 65 73 74 61 63 6B |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... -- --- -.- . ... - .- -.-. -.- |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01101101 01101111 01101011 01100101 01110011 01110100 01100001 01100011 01101011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S m o k e s t a c k |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 006D 006F 006B 0065 0073 0074 0061 0063 006B |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)53798177718586676977 |
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