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Myanmar Meaning
extra late edition of a newspaper အထူးထုတ် သတင်းစာ။
Definition
smokestack /'små7kstæk/ n (က) သေဘၤာ၊ စက္႐ံု စသည္၏ မီးခိုးေခါင္းတိုင္။ (ခ) ( US ) မီးရထားေခါင္းတြဲ ေခါင္းတိုင္။
Examples
- ‘Jutting from the murky orange sunset behind them
- the cathedral's three steeples
- flanked by the cupola of the old colonial garrison and the little dome of the city hall
- tower over the masts and the smokestacks of ships at anchor.’
- ‘Instead of viaducts and smokestacks
- the dockside arts complex that bears his name is built with shards of sunlight and steel.’
- ‘He changed power-plant rules affecting emissions
- a move favored by industry
- and has balked at forcing big ships to clean their smokestack pollutants.’
- ‘Though it could pull one car
- smoke from the diminutive machine drifted through the car
- choking out the passengers until an extra-tall smokestack was applied.’
- ‘After 1953
- the only signs of life at the Clarkdale smelter were the demolitionists responsible for toppling the two smokestacks dominating the local skyline in the 1960s.’