(n.) That part of a building which contains the smoke flues; esp. an upright tube or flue of brick or stone, in most cases extending through or above the roof of the building. Often used instead of chimney shaft.
(n.) A tube usually of glass, placed around a flame, as of a lamp, to create a draft, and promote combustion.
(n.) A body of ore, usually of elongated form, extending downward in a vein.
Example Sentences:
(1) On the banks of the Firth of Forth, the Longannet power station dominates the wintry horizon, a massive box in the shadow of its skyscraper chimney stack.
(2) The tea-shop owner’s home is just a couple of hundred metres from a huge, ageing coal-fired power plant in central Turkey , whose red-and-white chimneys spew dirty fumes.
(3) Air pollution was not the most immediate of problems but the canopy of smoke that belched from industrial and domestic chimneys began to attract attention.
(4) The Prestonpans factory was eclipsed by an even greater one – for a time it boasted the world’s highest chimney – that made bleach and sulphuric acid on the outskirts of Glasgow; and it was in Glasgow that some of the earliest cases of acid violence were recorded.
(5) The rapid acidification is caused by the massive amounts of carbon dioxide belched from chimneys and exhausts that dissolve in the ocean.
(6) In addition, the cleaning of furniture and carpets cost £571.05, new loft insulation cost £546.75, and two claims for a chimney sweep were £43 and £75 respectively.
(7) The refinery was working largely as usual, with steam pouring from vents on the complex of pipes, chimneys and girders which towers over the flatlands of the Humber estuary's south shore.
(8) The chimney-like features on the roofs are ventilators that help the houses to cool naturally.
(9) Up in the foothills of the Pyrenees, in a tiny village nestled amid breathtaking landscapes and eagles in flight, a man in a woolly hat pushes a wheelbarrow up a narrow street whistling to himself as the smell of woodsmoke drifts out of chimneys.
(10) This report documents survival of three consecutive patients treated by an adaptation of the Santulli "chimney" anastomosis.
(11) In about half the world's households, such fuels are used for cooking daily, usually without a flue or chimney and with poor ventilation.
(12) With chimney heights ranging from 12 to 36 mm and their inner diameters from 1 to 4 mm, greater than 70% of the resistance to evaporation is provided by the cover.
(13) The jury of nine men and three women at Maidstone crown court cleared the six, five of whom had scaled a 200m tall chimney at Kingsnorth power station at Hoo, Kent in October 2007.
(14) The refinery chimneys were spewing out 1.7 million tonnes of carbon dioxide into the air per year till 2011.
(15) It is characteristic in persons who already have livido reticularis and who expose themselves for several hours every day to the heat from chimneys or foot-warmers.
(16) Black smoke rising from the chapel's chimney signifies an inconclusive vote (traditionally damp straw was added to make the smoke black but a chemical compound is now used instead); white smoke – and the pealing of the basilica's bell to avoid any confusion about the colour of the smoke – means that a new pope has been elected.
(17) Accessible only on foot, the Needles section of the Canyonlands national park has pink and creamy turrets, chimneys, gullies, mysterious canyons and weird formations.
(18) The main area for improvement was the refinery at Rho where it was aimed to disperse gases at a higher level by raising the chimneys and to use fuel gas in those burners which were connected to lower chimneys.
(19) The power station will become a big Westfield with a shopping centre inside.” But Tincknell says the height of the new buildings will be capped at 60 metres, which means the brick colossus’s four white chimneys will be visible from afar.
(20) If you have a fireplace you don't use, fit either a cap over your chimney pot (best done by a professional) or an inflatable chimney balloon.
Passage
Definition:
(v. i.) The act of passing; transit from one place to another; movement from point to point; a going by, over, across, or through; as, the passage of a man or a carriage; the passage of a ship or a bird; the passage of light; the passage of fluids through the pores or channels of the body.
(v. i.) Transit by means of conveyance; journey, as by water, carriage, car, or the like; travel; right, liberty, or means, of passing; conveyance.
(v. i.) Price paid for the liberty to pass; fare; as, to pay one's passage.
(v. i.) Removal from life; decease; departure; death.
(v. i.) Way; road; path; channel or course through or by which one passes; way of exit or entrance; way of access or transit. Hence, a common avenue to various apartments in a building; a hall; a corridor.
(v. i.) A continuous course, process, or progress; a connected or continuous series; as, the passage of time.
(v. i.) A separate part of a course, process, or series; an occurrence; an incident; an act or deed.
(v. i.) A particular portion constituting a part of something continuous; esp., a portion of a book, speech, or musical composition; a paragraph; a clause.
(v. i.) Reception; currency.
(v. i.) A pass or en encounter; as, a passage at arms.
(v. i.) A movement or an evacuation of the bowels.
(v. i.) In parliamentary proceedings: (a) The course of a proposition (bill, resolution, etc.) through the several stages of consideration and action; as, during its passage through Congress the bill was amended in both Houses. (b) The advancement of a bill or other proposition from one stage to another by an affirmative vote; esp., the final affirmative action of the body upon a proposition; hence, adoption; enactment; as, the passage of the bill to its third reading was delayed.
Example Sentences:
(1) Release of 51Cr was apparently a function of immune thymus-derived lymphocytes (T cells) because it was abrogated by prior incubation of spleen cells with anti-thymus antiserum and complement but was undiminished by passage of spleen cells through nylon-wool columns.
(2) Exposure to nanomolar concentrations of saralasin, an Ang II agonist, attenuated the passage of the fluorophores across the monolayers by 50-75%.
(3) Cultured cells from fourth to ninth passage showed positive labelling for S 100 protein, carbonic anydrase (CAA), glutamine synthetase (GS), alpha cristallin (alpha C) and polyclonal glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) antibody, but were negative for both monoclonal GFAP antibody and also for Muller cells in the retina.
(4) In the case of the latter, it show either a more or less typical appearance of radicolography only or, more rarely, a picture which combines opacification of the epidural space with the subarachnoid passage of the contrast medium.
(5) After approximately 20 in vitro passages, Chinese hamster kidney (CHK) cell cultures transformed upon exposure to different strains of SV 40 can show a diploid modal chromosome number of 22 with chromosome counts exclusively or essentially in the diploid range (20-25).
(6) In late-passage and cloned HUT102 cells, an increase in HTLV production was concordant with a decrease in constitutive interferon production and the loss of mature T lymphocyte antigens.
(7) A reduction of salmonellae during the passage of the pump and pressure conduit-pipe, combining east- and west-side of Kiel fjord, could be seen.
(8) The resulting cell lines have a stable phenotype and retain the changes which result from transformation even after extended passaging.
(9) Abe’s longstanding efforts toward those goals, which include the successful passage of a state secrets act and efforts to expand the scope of Japan’s military activities have already damaged relations with China.
(10) It is inferred that in this experimental model (1) high-density lipoproteins are probably excreted in the glomerular filtrate, (2) alterations in the composition of the excreted lipoproteins may occur during their passage through the nephron.
(11) We report that kainic acid lesions of the posterior corpus striatum, which preferentially spare fibers of passage while destroying striatopallidal neurons, produce a stimulus-sensitive movement pattern in rats that has a highly specific sensory trigger.
(12) The cells have been maintained through 23 serial passages, and the modal number of chromosomes was calculated to be 55.
(13) The rate of passage of digesta was significantly reduced in both pair-fed control (50 per cent) and infected (74 per cent) groups.
(14) Unlike cells grown on plastic, RME cells grown on type I collagen were readily subculturable and serial subculture resulted in the cells undergoing 15-20 population doublings (5-6 passages) before exhibiting any loss of growth potential.
(15) The major difficulty encountered with the current technique is the danger of neurologic injury during the passage and handling of conventional wires, especially in extensive procedures.
(16) In addition, SPT16 is identical to CDC68, a gene previously shown to be required for passage through the cell cycle control point START.
(17) Selective catheterisation enabled opacification under pressure in more than 80 p. cent of cases, with perfect visualisation of the entire tubes and significant peritoneal passage.
(18) The effects of Urocalun and jumping exercise upon the passage of calculi were studied.
(19) The alterations in the glycosaminoglycans and collagen induced by hypoxia may cause changes in the passage of macromolecules through the aortic wall.
(20) Despite the lack of expression of the endogenous CYP17 gene in transfectants from late-passage cells, induced luciferase activity was higher in late-passage transfectants than early-passage transfectants for both the -2544 and -488 constructs.