flue

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A pipe or duct that carries gaseous combustion products away from the point of combustion (such as a furnace).
    — It has frequently been a subject of inquiry, whether the ancients were acquainted with chimneys, or open fire-places. In the houses discovered at Herculaneum and Pompeii, there are no chimneys; they all appear to have been warmed by furnaces and flues.
  2. An enclosed passageway in which to direct a current of air or other gases along.
  3. A woolly or downy substance; down, nap; a piece of this. countable,obsolete,uncountable
  4. In an organ flue pipe, the opening between the lower lip and the languet.
形容词 adj.
  1. Alternative form of flew (“shallow, flat”). UK,alt-of,alternative,dialectal

词形变化

flues plural more flue comparative most flue superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
balanced flue flued flue-faker flue gas flueless fluelike flue pipe flue stop fluework fluey fluff hot-flue multiflue open flue

词源

From Middle English flue, flewe (“mouthpiece of a hunting horn”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps a back-formation from Middle English *flews (mistaken as a plural), from Old English flēwsa (“a flow, flowing, flux”). Alternatively, perhaps an alteration of Middle English floute, fleute, flote (“a pipe”), see English flute. Compare also Middle Dutch vloegh (“groove, channel, flute of a fluted column”).
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