flue

  • 81Flue —   The structure (in a residential heating appliance, industrial furnace, or power plant) into which combustion gases flow and are contained until they are emitted to the atmosphere.   ***   An enclosed passage way for directing products of… …

    Energy terms

  • 82flue — [flu:] noun a duct in a chimney for smoke and waste gases. ↘a channel for conveying heat. Origin ME (denoting the mouthpiece of a hunting horn): of unknown origin …

    English new terms dictionary

  • 83flue — I. n. 1. Smoke vent. 2. Heat pipe, heating tube (in a boiler). 3. Flew, fluff, nap, soft down, downy fur, flossy hair. II. v. n. Flare, splay, spread outward, expand …

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  • 84flue — noun (C) a metal pipe or tube, especially in a chimney, that lets smoke or heat from a fire out of a building …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 85flue — n duct, passage, air passage, air hole, airway, vent, venthole; chimney, smokestack, smokeshaft, stack, funnel, stovepipe, Naut. Sl.Charley Noble …

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  • 86flue — [[t]flu[/t]] n. 1) bui a passage or duct for smoke in a chimney 2) bui mad any duct or passage for air, gas, or the like 3) bui a tube, esp. a large one, in a fire tube boiler 4) mad a narrow slit in the upper end of an organ pipe through which… …

    From formal English to slang

  • 87flue — I. /flu / (say flooh) noun 1. the smoke passage in a chimney. 2. any duct or passage for air, gases, or the like. 3. (in certain steam boilers) any of the pipes or tubes through which hot gases, etc., are conveyed in order to heat surrounding or… …

  • 88flue — Gas or air passage which usually depends on natural convection to cause the combustion gases to flow through it. Forced convection may sometimes be used …

    Dictionary of automotive terms

  • 89chimney flue — Flue gas passageway in a chimney …

    Dictionary of automotive terms

  • 90flue pipe — noun Date: 1852 an organ pipe whose tone is produced by an air current striking the lip and causing the air within to vibrate compare reed pipe …

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