n.

1. A pipe, tube, or channel for conveying hot air, gas, steam, or smoke, as from a furnace or fireplace to a chimney.
2. Music.
   1. 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.
   2. The lipped opening in such a pipe.

[Origin unknown.]

flue² (flū)
n.

A fishing net.

[Middle English, from Middle Dutch vlūwe.]

Chamber in a fireplace that helps direct smoke and airborne soot through the chimney to outside air.

An incombustible, heat-resistant enclosed passage in a chimney to control and carry away products of combustion from a fireplace to the outside air. Often, several fireplaces within a home are connected to a single large flue, but it is also common to carry up one flue for each fireplace.

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IN BRIEF: A tube, pipe, or shaft through which smoke, steam, or hot air can escape.

They cleaned the flue regularly to make sure that all of the smoke could escape from the woodstove.

Tutor's tip: Sick with the "flu," (short for the infection influenza), she closed the "flue" (a shaft that removes smoke from a fireplace) to shut out the cold air. At that moment a flock of geese "flew" (past tense of fly) by..

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - træk-kanal, dun, kernespalte, harpunspids

Nederlands (Dutch)
rookkanaal, kanaal voor lucht, vuur etc., soort visnet, dons, een opening groter maken, uitspreiden

Français (French)
n. - (Constr) tuyau de cheminée, conduit de fumée

Deutsch (German)
n. - Abzugskanal, Flammrohr

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - καπνοσωλήνας, καπναγωγός (κν. μπουρί)

Italiano (Italian)
canna fumaria

Português (Portuguese)
n. - tubo (m) ou cano (m) para expelir fumaça

Русский (Russian)
дымоход, воздухопровод, простые или лабиальные органные трубы

Español (Spanish)
n. - conducto de humo, humero, chimenea, ducto, red barredera

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - rökfång, varmluftsrör i vägg, fint fjun som flyger

中文（简体） (Chinese (Simplified))
烟洞, 暖气管, 烟道

中文（繁體） (Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 煙洞, 暖氣管, 煙道

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 굴뚝, 송기관

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 煙管, 煙道, 熱気送管

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) مدخنه , شبكه صيد‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮ארובה, מעבר לאוויר חם או למים חמים‬

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