chimneylike

Like a vertical vent

Resembling a chimney in shape or function—tall, narrow, and often hollow or venting: a chimneylike rock formation, smoke rose through a chimneylike opening in the cave ceiling.

In climbing, a chimneylike crack is one wide enough to wedge your body into.

smoke

plume

Ornamental feather or rising column

  • billowingPuffing out dramatically
  • sootCarbon from incomplete burning
  • ashCombustion's powdery remains

fumes · exhaust · smoldering · draft · updraft · rising · puffing · venting · belching · cinders

structure

stack

Items piled vertically

  • flueChimney's inner passage
  • shaftNarrow vertical passage
  • columnVertical structural element

smokestack · tower · spire · turret · steeple · minaret · campanile · obelisk · pillar · funnel

ventilation

airflow

Movement of atmosphere

  • draftPreliminary version of text
  • flueChimney's inner passage
  • exhaustUse up entirely

vent · updraft · circulation · drawing · convection · aeration · extraction · outlet · escape · funnel

industrial

factory

Industrial production facility

refinery · foundry · incinerator · kiln · boiler · mill · emissions · pollution · smog · soot

geological

fumarole

Volcanic gas vent

spire · pillar · crater · caldera · sulfur

Opposites
orientation/shape

chimneylikehorizontal

Parallel to the horizon

flat · low-lying · squat · broad · sprawling

structural quality

chimneylikesolid

Firm matter state

dense · blocklike · impenetrable · massive · compact

Family

chimney, chimneys, chimneystacks, chimneystack

Familiarity
Top 1,000,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G