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"ref": "1815, Robertson Buchanan, A Treatise on the Economy of Fuel, and Management of Heat, Especially as it Relates to Heating and Drying by Means of Steam, Appendix, p. 307.",
"text": "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.",
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"ref": "1944 November and December, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—II”, in Railway Magazine, page 341",
"text": "Besides the usual run of machines, planers, millers, automatics, centre lathes, cranes, etc., there were several power stations, the rolling mills for strip material and for 60 ft. rails, and all the steel furnaces with their complicated systems of flues. If variety is the spice of life, then there was plenty here.",
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"word": "savukanava"
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"_dis1": "73 10 2 15",
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"word": "canna fumaria"
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"_dis1": "73 10 2 15",
"code": "it",
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"sense": "pipe that carries gaseous combustion products away from their origin",
"word": "tubo di scarico"
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"_dis1": "73 10 2 15",
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"sense": "pipe that carries gaseous combustion products away from their origin",
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"_dis1": "73 10 2 15",
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"_dis1": "73 10 2 15",
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"roman": "dymoxód",
"sense": "pipe that carries gaseous combustion products away from their origin",
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"masculine"
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"word": "дымохо́д"
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"_dis1": "73 10 2 15",
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"roman": "žarovája trubá",
"sense": "pipe that carries gaseous combustion products away from their origin",
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"feminine"
],
"word": "жарова́я труба́"
},
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"_dis1": "73 10 2 15",
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"roman": "sulundar",
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"_dis1": "73 10 2 15",
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"masculine"
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"_dis1": "73 10 2 15",
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"word": "tubo"
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"An enclosed passageway in which to direct air or other gaseous current along."
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"_dis1": "7 77 10 6",
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"A woolly or downy substance; down, nap; a piece of this."
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"In an organ flue pipe, the opening between the lower lip and the languet."
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"code": "de",
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"code": "it",
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{
"code": "it",
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{
"code": "it",
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"code": "ru",
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],
"glosses": [
"Alternative form of flowen"
],
"links": [
[
"flowen",
"flowen#Middle English"
]
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"alternative"
]
}
],
"word": "flue"
}
{
"derived": [
{
"word": "fluefiske"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "nb",
"2": "da",
"3": "flue"
},
"expansion": "Danish flue",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nb",
"2": "non",
"3": "fluga",
"g": "f"
},
"expansion": "Old Norse fluga f",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nb",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*flugǭ"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Germanic *flugǭ",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nn",
"2": "fluge"
},
"expansion": "Norwegian Nynorsk fluge",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nn",
"2": "flugu"
},
"expansion": "flugu",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nn",
"2": "flue"
},
"expansion": "flue",
"name": "m"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Danish flue, from Old Norse fluga f, from Proto-Germanic *flugǭ. Compare Norwegian Nynorsk fluge, flugu (dialectal flue).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "flua",
"tags": [
"definite",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "fluen",
"tags": [
"definite",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "fluer",
"tags": [
"indefinite",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "fluene",
"tags": [
"definite",
"plural"
]
}
],
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"lang_code": "nb",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"tags": [
"Nynorsk"
],
"word": "fluge"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Norwegian Bokmål entries with incorrect language header",
"Norwegian Bokmål feminine nouns",
"Norwegian Bokmål lemmas",
"Norwegian Bokmål masculine nouns",
"Norwegian Bokmål nouns",
"Norwegian Bokmål nouns with multiple genders",
"Norwegian Bokmål terms derived from Danish",
"Norwegian Bokmål terms derived from Old Norse",
"Norwegian Bokmål terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
"Norwegian Bokmål terms inherited from Danish",
"Norwegian Bokmål terms inherited from Old Norse",
"Norwegian Bokmål terms inherited from Proto-Germanic",
"Norwegian Bokmål terms with audio links",
"Norwegian Bokmål terms with usage examples",
"nb:Insects"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "fly on the wall",
"text": "flue på veggen",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"a fly"
],
"links": [
[
"fly",
"fly#English"
]
],
"qualifier": "insect",
"raw_glosses": [
"(insect) a fly"
],
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"audio": "No-flue.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/d4/No-flue.ogg/No-flue.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d4/No-flue.ogg",
"text": "Audio"
}
],
"word": "flue"
}
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "fluar",
"tags": [
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "flua",
"tags": [
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "flua",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "fluast",
"tags": [
"infinitive",
"passive"
]
},
{
"form": "fluande",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "flue",
"tags": [
"imperative"
]
},
{
"form": "flu",
"tags": [
"imperative"
]
}
],
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"lang_code": "nn",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "flu"
}
],
"categories": [
"Norwegian Nynorsk entries with incorrect language header",
"Norwegian Nynorsk lemmas",
"Norwegian Nynorsk terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Norwegian Nynorsk verbs",
"Norwegian Nynorsk weak verbs"
],
"glosses": [
"Alternative form of flu"
],
"links": [
[
"flu",
"flu#Norwegian Nynorsk"
]
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"alternative"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/²flʉː.ə/"
}
],
"word": "flue"
}
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