flue

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• /fluː/
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• obsolete: /fljuː/
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• rhymes with -uː
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• homophone: flew
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• homophone: flu
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• CMU ARPABET: F L UW1 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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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”).

32 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bashkir: мөрйә (möryə) — pipe that carries gaseous combustion products away from their origin
• Bulgarian: димоотвод (dimootvod) — pipe that carries gaseous combustion products away from their origin
• Catalan: canó — pipe that carries gaseous combustion products away from their origin
• Catalan: fumeral — pipe that carries gaseous combustion products away from their origin
• Czech: sopouch — pipe that carries gaseous combustion products away from their origin
• Czech: kouřovod — pipe that carries gaseous combustion products away from their origin
• Danish: røgrør — pipe that carries gaseous combustion products away from their origin
• Estonian: lõõr — pipe that carries gaseous combustion products away from their origin
• Finnish: savukanava — pipe that carries gaseous combustion products away from their origin
• Finnish: hormi — pipe that carries gaseous combustion products away from their origin
• Finnish: savuhormi — pipe that carries gaseous combustion products away from their origin
• French: conduit — pipe that carries gaseous combustion products away from their origin
• Galician: tiro — pipe that carries gaseous combustion products away from their origin
• German: Abzug — pipe that carries gaseous combustion products away from their origin
• German: Dunstabzug — pipe that carries gaseous combustion products away from their origin
• German: Rauchabzug — pipe that carries gaseous combustion products away from their origin
• Hungarian: kürtő — pipe that carries gaseous combustion products away from their origin
• Italian: canna fumaria — pipe that carries gaseous combustion products away from their origin
• Italian: tubo di scarico — pipe that carries gaseous combustion products away from their origin
• Italian: condotta — pipe that carries gaseous combustion products away from their origin
• Italian: scarico — pipe that carries gaseous combustion products away from their origin
• Macedonian: вула (vula) — pipe that carries gaseous combustion products away from their origin
• Russian: дымохо́д (dymoxód) — pipe that carries gaseous combustion products away from their origin
• Russian: жарова́я труба́ (žarovája trubá) — pipe that carries gaseous combustion products away from their origin
• Serbo-Croatian: сулундар (sulundar) — pipe that carries gaseous combustion products away from their origin
• Serbo-Croatian: сулунар (sulunar) — pipe that carries gaseous combustion products away from their origin
• Spanish: humero — pipe that carries gaseous combustion products away from their origin
• Catalan: canó — enclosed passageway for a gas
• Estonian: lõõr — enclosed passageway for a gas
• Finnish: kanava — enclosed passageway for a gas
• Finnish: putki — enclosed passageway for a gas
• French: conduit — enclosed passageway for a gas