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# chimney

«chimney» in Mova's school dictionary: **a tall pipe or structure that carries smoke and hot gases…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chimney/#m1)

2) A chimney is also the part of it that sticks up above the roof. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chimney/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chimney/#x1)
- In the story, Santa slid down the chimney. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chimney/#x2)
- A bird built a nest on top of the chimney. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chimney/#x3)
- The chimney sweep cleaned out the black soot. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chimney/#x4)
- The factory had two tall brick chimneys. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chimney/#x5)
- Grandpa used to smoke like a chimney, but he stopped. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chimney/#x6)
- We could see chimneys on every roof in the street. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chimney/#x7)
- All the chimneys in the town were smoking. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chimney/#x8)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/224-raccoons-opossums-and-skunks/8/)
- [Badger has also sent Otter, disguised as a chimney-sweep, to the back door.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/68-willows-ch11-part4-the-secret-passage/4/)
- [They flee through the windows, up the chimney, anywhere away from those sticks.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/71-willows-ch12-part2-the-battle-of-toad-hall/5/)
- [Well might the ferrets rush wildly for the fireplace and get hopelessly jammed in the chimney!»](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/71-willows-ch12-part2-the-battle-of-toad-hall/15/)
- [And poor Bill the Lizard is sent down the chimney, just as real small boys were sent up chimneys to clean them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/81-alice-s-victorian-world-tea-croquet-pocket-watches-shillings-and-chimney-sweeps/4/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «chimney» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chimney/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.