Flue

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A pipe, tube, or channel for conveying hot air, gas, steam, or smoke, as from a furnace or fireplace to a chimney.
  • n. Music An organ pipe sounded by means of a current of air striking a lip in the side of the pipe and causing the air within to vibrate. Also called labial.
  • n. Music The lipped opening in such a pipe.
  • n. A fishing net.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A pipe or duct that carries gaseous combustion products away from the point of combustion (such as a furnace).
  • n. An enclosed passageway in which to direct air or other gaseous current along.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. An inclosed passage way for establishing and directing a current of air, gases, etc.; an air passage.
  • n. A compartment or division of a chimney for conveying flame and smoke to the outer air.
  • n. A passage way for conducting a current of fresh, foul, or heated air from one place to another.
  • n. A pipe or passage for conveying flame and hot gases through surrounding water in a boiler; -- distinguished from a tube which holds water and is surrounded by fire. Small flues are called fire tubes or simply tubes.
  • n. In an organ flue pipe, the opening between the lower lip and the languet.
  • n. Light down, such as rises from cotton, fur, etc.; very fine lint or hair.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A duct for the conveyance of air, smoke, heat, or gases.
  • n. A pipe or tube for conveying heat to water in certain kinds of steam-boilers.
  • n. A passage in a wall for the purpose of conducting heated air from one part of a building to another.
  • n. [See etym.] The winding hollow of a sea-shell.
  • n. In organ-building, a flute-pipe as distinguished from a mouth-pipe or reed-pipe.
  • n. The coping of a gable or end-wall of a house, etc.
  • To expand or splay, as the jambs of a window.
  • n. Down or nap; waste downy matter, abounding in spinneries, lint-factories, etc.; downy refuse; fine hair, feathers, flocks of cotton, etc., that cling to clothes.
  • Shallow.
  • n. In whaling, the fluke or barb of a harpoon.
  • n. A money of account of Morocco, of the value of one twenty-fifth of an English penny, or one thirteenth of a cent.
  • n. Influenza.
  • n. A fishing-net, stationary or used as a drag-net.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. flat bladelike projection on the arm of an anchor
  • n. organ pipe whose tone is produced by air passing across the sharp edge of a fissure or lip
  • n. a conduit to carry off smoke
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    projection    organ pipe    pipe    pipework   
    Cross Reference
    flash-flue    dead flue   
    Hyponym
    fire tubes   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    duct    chimney    tunnel    fluff   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Baku    Blue    Cebu    Chengdu    Chou    Chu    Crewe    Drew    Ewe    Few   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    ßue    blower    suction    duct    exhaust