Duct vs. Flue

Duct and Flue Definitions
Duct
An often enclosed passage or channel for conveying a substance, especially a liquid or gas.
Flue
A pipe, tube, or channel for conveying hot air, gas, steam, or smoke, as from a furnace or fireplace to a chimney.
Duct
(Anatomy) A tubular bodily canal or passage, especially one for carrying a glandular secretion
A tear duct.
Flue
An organ pipe sounded by means of a current of air striking a lip in the side of the pipe and causing the air within to vibrate. Also called labial.
Duct
A tube or pipe for enclosing electrical cables or wires.
Flue
The lipped opening in such a pipe.
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Duct
To channel through a duct
Duct the moist air away.
Flue
A fishing net.
Duct
To supply with ducts.
Flue
A pipe or duct that carries gaseous combustion products away from the point of combustion (such as a furnace).
Duct
A pipe, tube or canal which carries gas or liquid from one place to another
Heating and air-conditioning ducts
Air duct
Flue
An enclosed passageway in which to direct air or other gaseous current along.
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Duct
An enclosure or channel for electrical cable runs, telephone cables, or other conductors
Bus duct
Flue
A woolly or downy substance; down, nap; a piece of this.
Duct
(anatomy) a vessel for conveying lymph or glandular secretions such as tears or bile
Flue
In an organ flue pipe, the opening between the lower lip and the languet.
Duct
(botany) a tube or elongated cavity (such as a xylem vessel) for conveying water, sap, or air
Flue
An inclosed passage way for establishing and directing a current of air, gases, etc.; an air passage
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Duct
(physics) a layer (as in the atmosphere or the ocean) which occurs under usually abnormal conditions and in which radio or sound waves are confined to a restricted path
Flue
In an organ flue pipe, the opening between the lower lip and the languet.
Duct
(obsolete) guidance, direction
Flue
Light down, such as rises from cotton, fur, etc.; very fine lint or hair.
Duct
To enclose in a duct
Flue
Flat blade-like projection on the arm of an anchor
Duct
To channel something (such as a gas) or propagate something (such as radio waves) through a duct or series of ducts
Flue
Organ pipe whose tone is produced by air passing across the sharp edge of a fissure or lip
Duct
Any tube or canal by which a fluid or other substance is conducted or conveyed.
Flue
A conduit to carry off smoke
Duct
One of the vessels of an animal body by which the products of glandular secretion are conveyed to their destination.
Duct
A large, elongated cell, either round or prismatic, usually found associated with woody fiber.
Duct
Guidance; direction.
Duct
A bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance;
The tear duct was obstructed
The alimentary canal
Poison is released through a channel in the snake's fangs
Duct
A continuous tube formed by a row of elongated cells lacking intervening end walls
Duct
An enclosed conduit for a fluid