Flue

/fluː/

Synonyms for "flue" (80 found)

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Closest matches (16)

air blubber breeze bubble butter chaff chimneychimney cornerchip clay cobweb cork cushion dough down

Noun(1 words)

chimneys

Strong matches (24)

Noun(3 words)

ductflue pipefluke

dust eiderdown ether fairy featherfeather bedfeathers fenderfire screenfireboard fireguard fireplace fireside fleece flossflue pipefluff foam froth fumarole

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funnel

Related words (40)

fur fuzz gossamer hearth hearthstone hob hub ingle inglenook ingleside kapok lint mote pile pillow plush pudding puff putty rubber

Show 17 more words

satin shaft silk smokehole smokeshaft smokestack sponge spume stack stovepipe straw swansdown thistledown velvet wax wool zephyr

Noun(3 words)

labial pipestovepipes vent

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More general

7 entries

conduit ductorgan pipepassage pipe pipework projection

More specific

4 entries

chimney fluefurnace fluestove fluestovepipe flue

Collocations

6 entries

chimney flueexhaust flueflue gasflue linerflue pipefurnace flue

Inflections

1 entries

flues

Derivations

1 entries

flueway

Sample sentences

6 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

A number of pollutants are required to be filtered out from the flue gas of power plants before it can be exhausted to the atmosphere.

Source: tatoeba (10599256)

The chimney flue is currently blocked by a bird's nest. We'll need to call a chimney sweep to clean it out before we can safely use the fireplace.

Source: tatoeba (10619164)

A squirrel was trapped in the flue above the fireplace.

Source: tatoeba (10957315)

Matthew picked up a flue in Casablanca.

Source: tatoeba (11587232)

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