flue
IPA: fɫˈu
noun
- A pipe or duct that carries gaseous combustion products away from the point of combustion (such as a furnace).
- An enclosed passageway in which to direct air or other gaseous current along.
- (obsolete, countable and uncountable) A woolly or downy substance; down, nap; a piece of this.
- In an organ flue pipe, the opening between the lower lip and the languet.
adjective
- (UK, dialect) Alternative form of flew (“shallow, flat”) [(UK, dialect) shallow; flat]
Advertisement
Examples of "flue" in Sentences
- Not that I think the flue will be a serious matter.
- The most common method of drying out tobacco leaves, called flue curing, requires an external heat source.
- The plant's unit-three scrubber - also known as a flue gas desulfurization unit - will start operating next week.
- 3Something perhaps to do with the flue, I suggested, since the flue is the only part of the fireplace I can name for you.
- Part of that push is to expand use of synthetic gypsum - a whitish, calcium-rich material known as flue gas desulfurization gypsum, or FGD gypsum.
- These are three in number -- the back centre-flue, which is closed to the heat and smoke coming over the oven from the fire-box by a damper -- and the two back corner-flues.
- Investments in 2008 had been inflated by spending on extraordinary items, such as flue-gas desulfurization scrubbers at Scottish Power's Longannet coal-fired power plant, Mr. Galán said.
- The arrows show its descent through these flues, from which it obliquely strikes and passes over the flue-plate, then under it, and then out through the centre back-flue, which is open at the bottom, up into the smoke-pipe.
- According to the results of a one-time questionnaire-based statistical survey published by the University of Illinois, with 3146 individuals completing the survey, 97% of the actively publishing climate scientists (as opposed to the scientists who are not publishing actively) agree that human activity, such as flue gas emissions from fossil fuel combustion and deforestation, is a significant contributing factor to global climate change [1].
Advertisement
Advertisement