| anglais > français | |
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| chimney | |
| 1. n. Cheminée. | |
| Smoke lowering down from chimney-pots, making a soft black drizzle, with flakes of soot in it as big as full-grown snowflakes—gone into mourning, one might imagine, for the death of the sun. (Bleak House - Charles Dickens) | |
| La fumée tombe des tuyaux de cheminée, bruine molle et noire, traversée de petites pelotes de suie qu'on prendrait pour des flocons de neige portant le deuil du soleil. | |
| anglais > anglais | |
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| chimney | |
| 1. n. 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 hydrocarbon based fuels); a flue. |  |
| 2. n. The glass flue surrounding the flame of an oil lamp. | |
| 3. n. (British) The smokestack of a steam locomotive. | |
| 4. n. A narrow cleft in a rock face; a narrow vertical cave passage. | |
| 5. v. (climbing) To negotiate a chimney (narrow vertical cave passage) by pushing against the sides with back, feet, hands, etc. | |
| français > anglais | |
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| cheminée | |
| 1. n-f. a chimney | |
| 2. n-f. a fireplace or hearth | |
| 3. n-f. a vertical vent, exhaust or gallery | |
| 4. n-f. a hole at the centre of some models of parachute | |
| 5. n-f. the glass tube protecting the flame of a kerosene or similar wick lamp | |
| 6. n-f. (technology) a vertical vacuum forming in a gasifier | |
| 7. n-f. (welding) a type of welding fault | |
| 8. n-f. (geology) the exhaust of a volcano | |
| 9. n-f. (geology) a vertical mineral vein | |
| 10. n-f. (theatre) large pipe containing ropes that serves to control theater backdrops | |
