smokestack

[ smohk-stak ]

/ ˈsmoʊkˌstæk /

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noun

Also called stack. a pipe for the escape of the smoke or gases of combustion, as on a steamboat, locomotive, or building.

adjective

pertaining to, engaged in, or dependent on a basic heavy industry, as steel or automaking: smokestack companies.

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Origin of smokestack

First recorded in 1855–60; smoke + stack

Words nearby smokestack

smoker's cough, smoker's tongue, smoke screen, smoke shelf, smoke shop, smokestack, smokestack industry, smoke tree, smokey, smoking car, smoking-concert

How to use smokestack in a sentence

For instance, they hunted down the locations of industrial smokestacks.
This Is Your Brain on Pollution (Ep. 472)|Stephen J. Dubner|August 12, 2021|Freakonomics
The plants are turned on when the need for electricity peaks, which tends to occur in the steamy summer months, igniting rows of fume-spewing smokestacks during peak electricity usage.
Our go-to weapon against heatwaves? A dirty backup power source.|Sara Kiley Watson|June 26, 2021|Popular-Science
After the fall of factories, knowledge has become the new face of capitalism with university bell towers lauded as the smokestacks of today’s cities.
Higher Education Has a Tax Problem and It's Hurting Local Communities|Davarian L. Baldwin|April 7, 2021|Time
When David asks about the smoke rising from a smokestack at the plant, his father tells him that that’s where the male chicks are burned.
In the Gently Moving Minari, a Korean Family Finds Home in America's Heartland|Stephanie Zacharek|February 26, 2021|Time

That’s why another option is to combine hydrogen with carbon—which can be captured from the atmosphere in a process called air capture or from smokestacks—to produce liquid synthetic hydrocarbon fuels that are easier to handle than hydrogen.
Cheap renewables could make green hydrogen a practical replacement for fossil fuels|Katie McLean|February 24, 2021|MIT Technology Review
Americans learned to look at a smokestack and see dying trees and fish downwind.
Green Politics Has to Get More Radical, Because Anything Less Is Impractical|Jedediah Purdy|April 26, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Poison comes out of a smokestack and, downwind, birds fall from the sky.
Green Politics Has to Get More Radical, Because Anything Less Is Impractical|Jedediah Purdy|April 26, 2014|DAILY BEAST
You seem to be finding a great deal to interest you in that smokestack, young man!
Quin|Alice Hegan Rice
Railroads cause fires by their locomotives sending out sparks through the smokestack or dropping hot ashes along the right-of-way.
Our National Forests|Richard H. Douai Boerker
Sampson had called his sleeping companion, and already the black smoke began to pour out of the smokestack.
Within The Enemy's Lines|Oliver Optic
Immediately the boat listed and threw him away from the window, after which he sought a place of safety behind the smokestack.
The Everett massacre|Walker C. Smith
Soon after, a heavy roll of the vessel broke the smokestack, and it was pitched overboard.
The Naval History of the United States|Willis J. Abbot.

British Dictionary definitions for smokestack

smokestack

/ (ˈsməʊkˌstæk) /

noun

a tall chimney that conveys smoke into the airSometimes shortened to: stack

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