factory chimney
collocation in Englishmeaningsoffactoryandchimney
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factory
noun[C]
uk/ˈfæk.tər.i/us/ˈfæk.tɚ.i/
a building or set of buildings where large amounts of goods are made ...
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chimney
noun[C]
uk/ˈtʃɪm.ni/us/ˈtʃɪm.ni/
a hollow structure that allows the smoke from a fire inside a building to escape to the ...
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(Definition offactoryandchimneyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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In a short time thatfactorychimneywill no longer smoke.
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Fifty to a hundred years ago, the symbol of industrial society was a smokingfactorychimney.
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The wheels of industry will be turning everywhere and everyfactorychimneywill belch forth smoke.
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I should like to see every guilty man who allows afactorychimneyto emit volumes of dark smoke compelled to live within the vicinity of the factory.
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Two redbrick buildings and the base of an oldfactorychimneynext to the hotel are the only surviving remnants of the large industrial premises.
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In the industrialized areas the atmosphere is polluted by smoke from domestic and factory chimneys and gaseous effluent from a wide variety of factories, motor vehicles and diesel locomotives.
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Factory chimneys have been mentioned this afternoon in this connection.
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Apart from these natural difficulties there are other, man-made, obstacles—main roads, railways, canals, high-voltage power lines, factory chimneys, tall wireless masts and so on.
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You looked into a hollow of smoke and blurred buildings and factory chimneys.
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There are instances where such buildings pollute the atmosphere as much as factory chimneys.
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After all, any effluent which goes into the air, whether from domestic or factory chimneys, is a pollutant of some sort.
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Within a mile of my own house there are many factory chimneys.
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Brighouse secured grants in order to get rid of old disused factory chimneys.
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It is, of course, dangerous to have high trees, towers or factory chimneys or certain buildings near airfields, as, alas, we have seen in the last few days.
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There was only a question of some factory chimneys and the com- parative suitability of the two sites, and, when that was disposed of, the compulsory order was made.
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Here the landscape comprised textile mills and factory chimneys rather than trees.
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The device had two crossing stems of wheat in front of scheme of a neighborhood with two factory chimneys out of which there is smoke.
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