chimney

chimney — noun

1. a tall vertical pipe or brick structure on top of a building that carries smoke

1.名詞B2
釋義

a tall vertical pipe or brick structure on top of a building that carries smoke from a fireplace or heater up and out into the open air

例句

Smoke curled out of the chimney of the old stone farmhouse.

preposition pattern: chimney of [building]

Aiko watched the chimney sweep climb onto the roof with her brushes.

collocation: chimney sweep

同義詞
  • flue

    the inner channel inside a chimney rather than the whole visible structure

  • smokestack

    much taller and used for factories, power plants, or ships, not houses

  • stack

    shorter British term, common for industrial chimneys

文法句型

chimney + of + building

adjective + chimney

chimney + noun

用法筆記

Often combines with a building noun using 'of' (the chimney of the house) or as a compound modifier (factory chimney, brick chimney). The person who cleans chimneys is called a chimney sweep.

常見錯誤

❌Water comes out of the chimney.
✅Smoke comes out of the chimney.
💡a chimney carries smoke and hot gases from a fire, not water.
❌The chimney is in the kitchen.
✅The chimney is on the roof above the kitchen.
💡the chimney is the visible pipe on the outside or top of a building, not the indoor fireplace.

2. a narrow vertical opening in a cliff face or rock wall that is just wide enough

2.名詞C1
釋義

a narrow vertical opening in a cliff face or rock wall that is just wide enough for a climber to go up through

例句

The climbers took turns going up the narrow chimney in the rock face.

climbing term: narrow chimney

Leila squeezed through the chimney and emerged on a wide ledge.

verb pattern: squeeze through a chimney

同義詞
  • crack

    any narrow opening in rock, not necessarily wide enough for a person to fit inside

  • fissure

    more technical geological term implying a split formed by natural forces

  • cleft

    wider than a crack, often V-shaped, but less commonly used in climbing contexts

文法句型

adjective + chimney

verb + through + chimney

用法筆記

Subject is almost always modified by an adjective (narrow, steep, difficult) or paired with a climbing verb (squeeze through, climb up, enter). This sense belongs to rock-climbing vocabulary and is rarely used in everyday conversation.

常見錯誤

❌We entered the chimney of the cave.
✅We climbed up the chimney in the cliff.
💡a rock chimney is an open vertical crack in a cliff, not a passage inside a cave.