smokestack

CEFRB2

/ˈsmoʊkˌstæk/

noun

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

01
noun
A tall pipe that releases smoke from a building or ship.
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noun
Extra detail
A conduit or group of conduits atop a structure allowing smoke to flow out, as on a steam locomotive, ship, factory, or power plant using fossil fuels.

Examples

This smokestack is releasing greenhouse gases and other pollutants into the atmosphere.

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Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

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With its long tapered cowcatcher, massive headlamp and enormous diamond smokestack behind, wagon-top boiler, high running-plate above the driving-wheels reached from a front door in the square side-window cab, cylinders with slide valves mounted on top, and double bogie tender, General in its present form is typical of much earlier American locomotive practice.
1942 February 26, “Notes and News: An Historic American Locomotive”, in Railway Magazine, page 56
One of those areas can be found at the city’s northern edge, where the towering smokestacks of Wuhan Iron and Steel loom behind bent-backed farmers tending vegetable patches. Today Qingshan district is a patchwork of tiny fields, polluted streams and roadside markets selling building materials. But the city government is in the process of transforming this no-man’s-land into a sparkling new suburb. Between the steelworks and the mighty Yangtze River, demolished buildings and hoardings advertise a new logistics centre. Down the road, a giant railway station (Wuhan’s third) and a 6-kilometre bridge (the city’s fifth to cross the Yangtze) were completed in 2010.
2012, Tom Miller, “The Construction Orgy: Paving the Fields”, in China's Urban Billion: The Story Behind the Biggest Migration in Human History, Zed Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 137

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