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Chimney vs Hench - What's the difference?

chimney | hench |

As nouns the difference between chimney and hench

is that chimney is a vertical tube or hollow column used to emit environmentally polluting gaseous and solid matter (including but not limited to by-products of burning carbon or hydro-carbon based fuels); a flue while hench is (architecture) the narrow side of chimney stack, a haunch .

As verbs the difference between chimney and hench

is that chimney is (climbing) to negotiate a chimney (sense #4) by pushing against the sides with back, feet, hands, etc while hench is (comics) to be a henchman or henchwoman, usually for a supervillain.

As an adjective hench is

(uk|slang) big, strong, and muscular.

chimney

English

(wikipedia chimney)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A vertical tube or hollow column used to emit environmentally polluting gaseous and solid matter (including but not limited to by-products of burning carbon or hydro-carbon based fuels); a flue.
  • * 1883:
    • Our chimney was a square hole in the roof: it was but a little part of the smoke that found its way out, and the rest eddied about the house, and kept us coughing and piping the eye.
  • The glass flue surrounding the flame of an oil lamp.
  • (British) The smokestack of a steam locomotive.
  • A narrow cleft in a rock face; a narrow vertical cave passage.

    • Derived terms

    * chimney pot * chimney stack * chimney sweep * chimney-money * chimney-duty

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (climbing) To negotiate a chimney (sense #4) by pushing against the sides with back, feet, hands, etc.

    • See also

    * cowl * fireplace * flaunching * flue * smokestack * stove English refractory feminine rhymes

    hench

    English

    Noun

    (es)
  • (architecture) The narrow side of chimney stack, a haunch .
  • (architecture) The side of an arch from the topmost part (crown) to the bottommost part (impost).

    • Verb

    (es)
  • (comics) To be a henchman or henchwoman, usually for a supervillain.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (UK, slang) Big, strong, and muscular.
    • He's well hench .
    That's a seriously hench doorman.

    Synonyms

    * buff