Flue
[fluː] or [flu]
解释:
(n.) An inclosed passage way for establishing and directing a current of air, gases, etc.; an air passage
(n.) A compartment or division of a chimney for conveying flame and smoke to the outer air.
(n.) A passage way for conducting a current of fresh, foul, or heated air from one place to another.
(n.) A pipe or passage for conveying flame and hot gases through surrounding water in a boiler; -- distinguished from a tube which holds water and is surrounded by fire. Small flues are called fire tubes or simply tubes.
(n.) Light down, such as rises from cotton, fur, etc.; very fine lint or hair.
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解释:
adj. (prov.) shallow flat.—Also Flew.
n. a smoke-pipe or small chimney.
n. light down: soft down or fur.—adj. Flu′ey.
录入:凯文
娱乐性解释：
An escape for hot air.
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例句:
- John Stevens of New Jersey was also at work on a steamboat, and had in 1804 built such a boat at his shops, having a screw propeller and a flue boiler. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- It had a cylindrical boiler, eight feet long and thirty-four inches in diameter, with an internal flue tube passing through it. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- In the 18th century Smeaton devised the horizontal lengthened cylindrical boiler traversed by a flue. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- The blast pipe comes through the wall, and enters the fire through a flue which slants downward. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- Fresh air from outside enters a flue at the right, passes the radiator, where it is warmed, and then makes its way to the room through a flue at the left. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- The _hypocaust_ was a hot-air furnace built in the basement or cellar of the house and from which the heat was conducted by flues to the bath rooms and other apartments. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- Nathan Read of Salem, Massachusetts, in 1791, invented a tubular boiler in which the flues and gases are conducted through tubes passing through the boiler into the smokestack. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- Open heat spaces were left between the two flues. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- This warm fresh air then passes through ordinary flues to the rooms above. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- The boiler was 30 inches in diameter and had 72 copper flues 1? inches in diameter, 7 feet long. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- Oliver Evans followed with two longitudinal flues. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- As the excessively hot water gas passes through the boiler flues it furnishes the necessary heat to generate the steam. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
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