FLUES Synonyms
There are 5 hypernyms of the word flues. (close relations)
Definition of FLUES
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Best Alternative Words for FLUES
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channels | verb, nounv, n | |||||||
noun • official routes of communication | ||||||||
airways | nounn | |||||||
noun • a duct that provides ventilation (as in mines) • a designated route followed by airplanes in flying from one airport to another • the passages through which air enters and leaves the body • a commercial enterprise that provides scheduled flights for passengers | ||||||||
canals | nounn | |||||||
noun • (astronomy) an indistinct surface feature of Mars once thought to be a system of channels; they are now believed to be an optical illusion • a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance • long and narrow strip of water made for boats or for irrigation verb • provide (a city) with a canal | ||||||||
chimneys | nounn | |||||||
noun • a vertical flue that provides a path through which smoke from a fire is carried away through the wall or roof of a building • a glass flue surrounding the wick of an oil lamp | ||||||||
conduits | nounn | |||||||
noun • a passage (a pipe or tunnel) through which water or electric wires can pass | ||||||||
cylinders | nounn | |||||||
noun • a solid bounded by a cylindrical surface and two parallel planes (the bases) • a surface generated by rotating a parallel line around a fixed line • a chamber within which piston moves • a cylindrical container for oxygen or compressed air | ||||||||
ducts | nounn | |||||||
noun • a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance • a continuous tube formed by a row of elongated cells lacking intervening end walls • an enclosed conduit for a fluid | ||||||||
passages | nounn | |||||||
noun • the act of passing from one state or place to the next • a section of text; particularly a section of medium length • a way through or along which someone or something may pass • the passing of a law by a legislative body • a journey usually by ship • a short section of a musical composition • a path or channel or duct through or along which something may pass • a bodily reaction of changing from one place or stage to another • the motion of one object relative to another • the act of passing something to another person | ||||||||
pipelines | nounn | |||||||
noun • gossip spread by spoken communication • a pipe used to transport liquids or gases | ||||||||
tubes | nounn | |||||||
noun • conduit consisting of a long hollow object (usually cylindrical) used to hold and conduct objects or liquids or gases • electronic device consisting of a system of electrodes arranged in an evacuated glass or metal envelope • a hollow cylindrical shape • (anatomy) any hollow cylindrical body structure • an electric railway operating below the surface of the ground (usually in a city) verb • provide with a tube or insert a tube into • convey in a tube • ride or float on an inflated tube • place or enclose in a tube | ||||||||
vents | verb, nounv, n | |||||||
noun • a hole for the escape of gas or air • external opening of urinary or genital system of a lower vertebrate • a fissure in the earth's crust (or in the surface of some other planet) through which molten lava and gases erupt • a slit in a garment (as in the back seam of a jacket) • activity that frees or expresses creative energy or emotion verb • give expression or utterance to • expose to cool or cold air so as to cool or freshen | ||||||||
fluke | verb, nounv, n | |||||||
noun • a stroke of luck • a barb on a harpoon or arrow • flat bladelike projection on the arm of an anchor • either of the two lobes of the tail of a cetacean • parasitic flatworms having external suckers for attaching to a host | ||||||||
flue pipe | nounn | |||||||
noun • organ pipe whose tone is produced by air passing across the sharp edge of a fissure or lip | ||||||||
labial pipe | adjectiveadj | |||||||
noun • organ pipe whose tone is produced by air passing across the sharp edge of a fissure or lip |