Difference between Chimney and Stack

What is the difference between Chimney and Stack?

Chimney as a noun 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 Stack as a noun is a large pile of hay, grain, straw, or the like, larger at the bottom than the top, sometimes covered with thatch.

Chimney

Part of speech: noun

Definition: 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. The glass flue surrounding the flame of an oil lamp. The smokestack of a steam locomotive. A narrow cleft in a rock face; a narrow vertical cave passage.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To negotiate a chimney (sense #4) by pushing against the sides with back, feet, hands, etc.

Stack

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To arrange in a stack, or to add to an existing stack.To arrange the cards in a deck in a particular manner.To take all the money another player currently has on the table.To deliberately distort the composition of (an assembly, committee, etc.).To fall or crash.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A large pile of hay, grain, straw, or the like, larger at the bottom than the top, sometimes covered with thatch.A pile of similar objects, each directly on top of the last.A pile of poles or wood, indefinite in quantity.A pile of wood containing 108 cubic feet. (~3 m³)A smokestack.A linear data structure in which the last datum stored is the first retrieved; a LIFO queue.A portion of computer memory occupied by a stack data structure, particularly (the stack) that portion of main memory manipulated during machine language procedure call related instructions.A coastal landform, consisting of a large vertical column of rock in the sea.Compactly spaced bookshelves used to house large collections of books.A large amount of an object.A pile of rifles or muskets in a cone shape.The amount of money a player has on the table.A vertical drain pipe.A fall or crash, a prang.

We hope you now know whether to use Chimney or Stack in your sentence.

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