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Chimney vs Tower - What's the difference?

chimney | tower |

As nouns the difference between chimney and tower

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 tower is a structure, usually taller than it is wide, often used as a lookout, usually unsupported by guy-wires.

As verbs the difference between chimney and tower

is that chimney is to negotiate a chimney (sense #4) by pushing against the sides with back, feet, hands, etc while tower is to be very tall.

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

    tower

    English

    (wikipedia tower)

    Alternative forms

    * (obsolete)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) torr, from (etyl) turris. Probably influenced by Welsh .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A structure, usually taller than it is wide, often used as a lookout, usually unsupported by guy-wires.
    • From the top of the tower we could see far off into the distance.
  • (figuratively) Any item, such as a computer case, that is usually higher than it is wide.
  • (informal) An interlocking tower.
  • (figurative) A strong refuge; a defence.
  • * Bible, Psalms lxi. 3
    • Thou hast been a shelter for me, and a strong tower from the enemy.
  • (historical) A tall fashionable headdress.
  • * Hudibras
    • Lay trains of amorous intrigues / In towers , and curls, and periwigs.
  • (obsolete) High flight; elevation.
    • (Johnson)
  • The sixteenth trump or Major Arcana card in many decks, deemed an ill omen.
    • Synonyms
    * donjon
    Derived terms
    * control tower * guardtower * interlocking tower * radio tower * siege tower * tower of Babel * towers of Hanoi * tower of strength * watchtower * water tower

    See also

    * * mast

    Verb

  • To be very tall.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Revenge of the nerds , passage=Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.}}
  • To be high or lofty; to soar.
  • * (William Shakespeare)
    • My lord protector's hawks do tower so well.
  • (obsolete) To soar into.
    • (Milton)

    Derived terms

    * tower over

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who tows.
  • * 1933 , Henry Sturmey, ?H. Walter Staner, The Autocar
    • But as the tower and towee reached the cross-roads again, another car, negligently driven, came round the corner, hit the Morris, and severed the tow rope, sending the unfortunate car back again into the shop window

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