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Chimney vs Lantern - What's the difference?

chimney | lantern |

As nouns the difference between chimney and lantern

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 lantern is a case of translucent or transparent material made to protect a flame, or light, used to illuminate its surroundings.

As verbs the difference between chimney and lantern

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

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

    lantern

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (archaic) lanthorn

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A case of translucent or transparent material made to protect a flame, or light, used to illuminate its surroundings.
  • (architecture) An open structure of light material set upon a roof, to give light and air to the interior.
  • (architecture) A cage or open chamber of rich architecture, open below into the building or tower which it crowns.
  • (architecture) A smaller and secondary cupola crowning a larger one, for ornament, or to admit light.
    • the lantern of the cupola of the Capitol at Washington, or that of the Florence cathedral
  • (engineering) A lantern pinion or trundle wheel.
  • (steam engines) A kind of cage inserted in a stuffing box and surrounding a piston rod, to separate the packing into two parts and form a chamber between for the reception of steam, etc.; a lantern brass.
  • (metalworking) A perforated barrel to form a core upon.
  • (zoology) Aristotle's lantern

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To furnish with a lantern.
    • to lantern a lighthouse

    See also

    * lamp * torch