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What is the difference between chimney and historical?

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As nouns the difference between chimney and historical

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 historical is a historical romance.

As a verb chimney

is {{context|climbing|lang=en}} to negotiate a chimney (sense #4) by pushing against the sides with back, feet, hands, etc.

As a adjective historical is

pertaining to the history, to what happened in the past.

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

    historical

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Pertaining to the history, to what happened in the past.

    • Usage notes

    * * See the usage notes about (m) for more.

    Synonyms

    * historic

    Derived terms

    * ahistorical * art-historical

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A historical romance.
  • * 1999 , Anne K. Kaler, Rosemary E. Johnson-Kurek, Romantic Conventions , page 63:
    • However, as regular romance readers know, the romance novels that appear on the best-seller lists are not Harlequins at all, but rather historicals and contemporaries, which vary widely from the Harlequin pattern in style, plot, and character.