different between chimney vs breaching

English

Alternative forms

• chimley, chimbley (dialectal)

Etymology

From Middle English chymeney, chymney, chymne, from Old French cheminee, from Late Latin camin?ta, from Latin caminus, from Ancient Greek ??????? (kám?nos, “furnace”). Doublet of chimenea.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?t??mni/, (proscribed) /?t??m?ni/

Noun

chimney (plural chimneys)

1. 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.
   • 1883: Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

     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.
2. The glass flue surrounding the flame of an oil lamp.
3. (Britain) The smokestack of a steam locomotive.
4. A narrow cleft in a rock face; a narrow vertical cave passage.
5. (vulgar, euphemistic) A vagina.

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Translations

Verb

chimney (third-person singular simple present chimneys, present participle chimneying, simple past and past participle chimneyed)

1. (climbing) To negotiate a chimney (narrow vertical cave passage) by pushing against the sides with back, feet, hands, etc.

See also

• cowl
• fireplace
• flaunching
• flue
• smokestack
• stove

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?i?t???/
• Homophone: breeching
• Rhymes: -i?t???

Verb

breaching

1. present participle of breach

Noun

breaching (plural breachings)

1. The act by which something is breached.

   breachings of decorum