Flue

Definition: Flue

Flue

Noun

1. Flat blade-like projection on the arm of an anchor.

2. Organ pipe whose tone is produced by air passing across the sharp edge of a fissure or lip.

3. A conduit to carry off smoke.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "flue" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references)

Etymology: Flue \Flue\, noun. [Compare to Old French flue a flowing, from fluer to flow, from Latin fluere (compare to Fluent); a perhaps a corruption of English flute.]. (references)

19th Century Satire

Building

Energy

Environment

Fine Arts

Metallurgy

Mining

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Flue

Airpipe

Noun: air pipe, air tube; airhole, blowhole, breathinghole, venthole; shaft, flue, chimney, funnel, vent, nostril, nozzle, throat, weasand, trachea; bronchus, bronchia; larynx, tonsils, windpipe, spiracle; ventiduct, ventilator; louvre, jalousie, Venetian blinds; blowpipe. (wind); pipe. (tube); jhilmil; smokestack.

Levity

Feather, dust, mote, down, thistle, down, flue, cobweb, gossamer, straw, cork, bubble, balloon; float, buoy; ether, air.

Opening

Way, path; thoroughfare; channel; passage, passageway; tube, pipe; water pipe; air pipe; vessel, tubule, canal, gut, fistula; adjutage, ajutage; ostium; smokestack; chimney, flue, tap, funnel, gully, tunnel, main; mine, pit, adit, shaft; gallery.

Uncleanness

Dirt, filth, soil, slop; dust, cobweb, flue; smoke, soot, smudge, smut, grit, grime, raff; sossle, sozzle.

Crosswords: Flue

Danish (fly, housefly), Norwegian (fly, housefly).

Up the Flue (1919)

Caught in a Flue (1914)

Rockin' Pneumonia & The Boogie Woogie Flue (performing artist: Johnny Rivers)

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Books

• Beneficial Reuse of Lime Softening Residuals for Flue Gas Desulfurization (reference)

• Flue Covers Collector's Value Guide: Collector's Value Guide (reference)

• Flue gas cleaning wastes disposal and utilization (reference)

• Flue Gas Desulfurization (reference)

• Flue gas monitoring techniques : manual determination of gaseous pollutants (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Flue Cured Tobacco Farmer (reference)

• Flue Gas Desulfurization Knowledge Network (reference)

• Tobacco Market Review: Flue Cured (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Music

• John Frederick Lampe: Flue Concerto/Pyramus And Thisbe (reference)

• Flowing with the Flue (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Gravely's best flue cured Prepared by C.R. Sisson : Virginia smoking tobacco / / Herline & Hensel, Lith. Credit: Library of Congress.

Steel Production. Worker at steel plant. A flue blower in a blast furnace boiler house performs an inportant duty. Republic, Youngstown. Credit: Library of Congress.

Flue cure tobacco barn on Irwinville Farms, Rural Resettlement Administration project at Irwinville, Georgia. Credit: Library of Congress.

Topeka, Kansas. Worker employed in the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad flue shop. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

This flue, then very much cracked and full of seams, has since fallen, but its traces can still be seen

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Business

Combustion efficiency, low coefficient and flue gas temperature are the main parameters. (references)

Local producers are developing flue gas desulfurization (FGD) equipment that meet national standard, but still production falls well short of satisfying the growing demand in this sector. (references)

The increase in the use of natural gas over lignite and fuel oil will, however, reduce the necessity for the installation of flue gas desulfurization systems (FGDs) and electrostatic precipitator systems (ESPs). (references)

Economic History

China

Products enjoying the best sales prospects include low-cost flue gas desulfurization systems, air and water monitoring instruments, drinking water purification systems, vehicle emissions control and testing devices, industrial wastewater treatment equipment, and resource recovery technologies. (references)

Turkey

In fiscal year 2002, we anticipate major opportunities in new cogeneration (autoproducer) plants, mobile power generating units, power plant automation and control equipment, systems software, electricity trading, electricity distribution network, SCADA systems and flue gas desulphurization systems, as well as new electric transmission and distribution lines supply and installation. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "flue": branched flue system ♦ create flue action/to ♦ Flue boiler ♦ Flue boilers ♦ Flue bridge ♦ flue connector ♦ flue dust ♦ flue gas ♦ flue gases ♦ flue pipe ♦ Flue plate ♦ flue sheet ♦ flue stop ♦ Flue surface ♦ primary flue ♦ return flue ♦ smoke flue. Additional references.

Beginning with "flue": flue-brush, flue-gas, flue-hole, flue-tiles.

Ending with "flue": balanced-flue, chimney-flue.

Albanian

vrimë oxhaku, rrufë (catarrh, cold, flu, snifter), qyngj (pipe, stovepipe, tube, vent), push (bloom, Catkin, fluff, fuzz, nap, pile, pubescence), lloj rrjete peshkimi, gyp i instrumentit muzikor. (various references)

Arabic 

‏أنبوب المدخنة. (various references)

Bulgarian 

тръба за отопление, грип (flu, grip, influenza), газов канал, вентилационна тръба (trunk, uptake), отделна тръба на комин, малък комин, пламъчна тръба, димоотвод. (various references)

Chinese 

乱丝. (various references)

Czech

kouřovod (smoke flue, vent). (various references)

Danish

traekkanal, stinkskab, skorsten (chimney, fireplace, hearth, smokestack), roegroer, rør (barrel, channel, pipe, tube), motorprøvestand (flame chute), ledning (conduction, conductor, conduit, cord, duct, lead, line, trunk, wire), kanal (canal, channel). (various references)

Dutch

zuurkast, vlambuis, schoorsteen (chimney, fireplace, hearth, smokestack), rookkanaal (chimney, smokestack), pijp (pipe, rod), leiding (direction, guide, platform, stage, steering), kanaal (barrel, canal, channel, pipe, strait, tube), gaskanaal (pipe, wormhole). (various references)

Finnish

savukanava, piippu (barrel, pipe), hormi. (various references)

French

cheminée. (various references)

German

rauchfang (chimney hood), rauchabzug (smoke outlet), Flammrohr, Feuerzeug (cigarette lighter, lighter). (various references)

Greek 

καπναγωγός (chimney, pen, smoke vent, stack), καπνοσωλήνας λέβητα, καπνοσωλήνας, καπνοδόχοσ (chimney, funnel, smokestack, stack), καπνοδόχος (chimney, funnel, pen, smoke pipe, smoke stack, smokestack, stack), σωλήνας διαφυγής καπνού, σωλήνας (pipe, tube, tubing), μπουρί, αγωγός (pipeline), ανακλαστήρας καυσαερίων (flame chute), απαγωγός καπνών (chimney, pen, stack). (various references)

Hebrew 

ארוב�" (chimney, louver, smokestack, stack, window). (various references)

Hungarian

kémény (chimney, chimney-pot, chimney-stack, funnel, smokestack, stack, vent), pihe (down, flake, flock, floss, fluff, fuzz, nap, pile), kürtő (chimney-stack, duct, slot, stack, tunnel, vent), füstcsatorna (tunnel), füstcső (stack). (various references)

Indonesian

cerobong asap (chimney). (various references)

Italian

canna fumaria (shunt). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

煙�" (chimney). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

え�"どう (chimney, course, green peas, long walk, roadside, roundabout way, route). (various references)

Korean 

굴뚝 (Chimney, Chimneys, smokestack). (various references)

Manx

towl jaagh, feddan jaagh (flue pipe), beeal (approach, cone, crater, mouth, muzzle, orifice, outlet, passage, rictus, rim). (various references)

Pig Latin

ueflay.(various references)

Portuguese

cano de chaminé (chimney, lamp-chimney, stovepipe, tunnel, vent). (various references)

Romanian

fum (fume, reek, smoke, smother, whiff), se lãrgi (broaden, enlarge, expand, splay, stretch, widen), scamã (fluff, fuzz, lint, nap, squama), puf (bloom, down, floss, fluff, fuzz, lint, nap), horn (chimney), gripã (grippe, influenza), conductã (conduit, duct, pipe, pipe line, tube), coş (acne, basket, basketful, blackhead, cage, chest, chimney, creel, grog-blossom, hamper, hopper, pannier, rising, smoke stack, spot, tidy, tilt), burlan (pipe, shank, stove pipe, tube), şemineu (chimney, fireplace, hearth), ţeavã (barrel, bobbin, pipe, spool, spout, tube, tubing). (various references)

Russian 

дымоход (chimney, funnel, stovepipe, tunnel). (various references)

Scottish

sòrn (a flue, cavity, vent). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

vrsta ribarske mreže. (various references)

Spanish

humero (fumarole). (various references)

Swedish

ludd (down, fluff, fuzz, nap), influensa (flu, influenza). (various references)

Thai

แห (fishnet), ปล่องควัน (funnel, stack), ปุย. (various references)

Turkish

kırpıntı (clipping, clippings, rag, refuse, scrap, shavings, sweeps, trimmings), ince tüy (fuzz, pappus, pile), borulu org (flue pipe), bir tür balık ağı (trammel), baca deliği, baca (chimney, chimney stack, funnel, pipe, shaft, smokestack, stack). (various references)

Ukrainian

пушок (aigrette, pubes, pubescence, puff), димар (chimney, chimney stack, funnel, tunnel). (various references)

Vietnamese 

nùi bông (dabber, fluey), lưới đánh cá ba lớp mắt. (various references)

flowan. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "flue": flued, fluegelhorn, fluegelhorns, fluencies, fluency, fluent, fluently, flueric, fluerics, flues. (additional references)

Words containing "flue": affluence, affluences, affluencies, affluency, affluent, affluently, affluents, circumfluent, confluence, confluences, confluent, confluents, counterinfluence, counterinfluenced, counterinfluences, counterinfluencing, effluence, effluences, effluent, effluents, influence, influenceable, influenced, influences, influencing, influent, influential, influentially, influentials, influents, influenza, influenzal, influenzas, interinfluence, interinfluenced, interinfluences, interinfluencing, mellifluent, mellifluently, nonaffluent, nonfluencies, nonfluency, noninfluence, noninfluences, parainfluenza, parainfluenzas, profluent, refluence, refluences, refluent, unaffluent. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Flue" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Falqui, feluce, flae, fle, fleem, fleep, fleug, flie, floue, flua, fluc, flud, flued, fluer, fluf, flug, fluge, flugel, fluger, fluj, flum, flun, fluo, flup, fluq, flur, flure, flus, flusey, flut, fluxe, flye, foui, Fpu, frue, fue, fuev, fuhe, fuje, fulfer, fuli, Fylke, lue. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: fuel.

-1 letter: elf, feu, flu, leu.

-2 letters: ef, el.

+1 letter: flued, flues, fluke, flume, flute, fuels, fugle, fusel.

+2 letters: befoul, begulf, duffel, duffle, earful, efflux, engulf, eyeful, fecula, ferula, ferule, feudal, fleury, fluent, fluked, flukes, flukey, flumed, flumes, fluted, fluter, flutes, flutey, fluxed, fluxes, fouled, fouler, fuddle, fueled, fueler, fugled, fugles, fulled, fuller, fumble, funnel, furled, furler, fusels, fusile, futile, gulfed, ireful, luffed, muffle, purfle, reflux, refuel, rueful, ruffle, unfelt, useful, waeful, woeful.