noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
chimney breast
chimney pot
chimney stack
chimney sweep
unblock a toilet/drain/chimney etc
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
tall
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And a tall chimney with smoke coming out.
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The tall chimneys perfect its proportions.
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He compared it with the scheme 30 years ago when Britain built tall chimneys to disperse pollution over a wide area.
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Around the margins of the hill, the termites construct tall , thin-walled chimneys which stand out from the sides like ribs.
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A tall chimney above the heating plant and workshops made it look rather like a factory under guard.
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Most villages had a sugarmill with a tall , slender chimney , or a modest watermill.
■ NOUN
brick
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Nothing remains but the brick chimney and stone porch.
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Like the new benches that were made, or the new brick chimney for the stove.
factory
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The most commonplace metonymic index of industry - the factory chimney - is also metaphorically a phallic symbol.
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Everyone was looking ahead, where a stick of black smoke stood on the horizon like a factory chimney .
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Look for a factory chimney cloud - or a wisp of smoke curling across the sky; that will be brent geese.
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At the bus stop the breath of the queue is like a row of factory chimneys .
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You can see the smoke from a factory chimney or the oil slick menacing your favourite beach.
piece
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In style Brick House almost resembled Charleston, but more cottagey, with Staffordshire ornaments on the chimney piece .
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The marble chimney piece of the saloon.
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With its low ceiling, bookcases at both ends and plain grey-marble chimney piece , the room combined comfort and dignity.
pot
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The wind still howled through the chimney pots and rattled through the cracks of the window frames.
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The mortar securing the chimney pot would have to be replaced, along with the pot.
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Two marble top wash-stands made £235; a pair Victorian chimney pots , £110 and an oak and marble sideboard, £300.
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Features include two old chimney pots and a sundial.
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When he left, she gave him two chimney pots , which had previously been on her house.
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But before any type of chimney pot is fitted, check the condition of the flue.
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Starlings, blundering among the chimney pots , precipitate small avalanches over their tails.
smoke
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White chimney smoke is the traditional signal that a new pope has been chosen.
stack
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Due to high winds the chimney stack became unsafe.
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There are the inevitable baking ovens beside powerful chimney stacks and meat hooks hanging from kitchen and scullery ceilings.
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The chimney stack was too high to consider pushing it down, so I had to try fishing it out.
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Then my torch showed up streaks of water running down the chimney stack .
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Above the kitchen chimney stack , the sky quavers on a high inaudible note.
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Every room has a fireplace and the double chimney stack rises through the steeply-pitched hipped roof.
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Nearly falling off the roof in fright, Hilary grabbed frantically at the chimney stack to keep her balance.
sweep
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She might even ring the chimney sweep .
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Neighbors had complained that months went by and one never saw a chimney sweep .
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That would not have been a risk incidental to the trade of chimney sweep .
■ VERB
rise
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Smoke rose from several chimneys , straight blue columns in the still air, signs of habitation.
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That smoke rising from the chimney , for example, has never heard of time, space, qualities, or quantities.
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A big house, with no smoke rising from the chimneys .
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He fanned the coals with the pad till the ashes rose up the chimney and the flames jumped.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Smoke drifted from a chimney .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Check chimney flues and heating equipment in summer and do maintenance, make repairs or replace an outmoded system.
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Half way down the row of chimneys is the well.
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Remember your load-bearing walls and chimneys from the roof inspection?
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She is preoccupied with the chimney opposite her balcony, against which a shape is leaning.
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Smoke poured from the central chimney , the rich, black coal smoke from the furnace.
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White chimney smoke is the traditional signal that a new pope has been chosen.
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You don't need a chimney of those proportions nowadays.