Duct vs. Flue: What's the Difference?

An often enclosed passage or channel for conveying a substance, especially a liquid or gas.

A pipe, tube, or channel for conveying hot air, gas, steam, or smoke, as from a furnace or fireplace to a chimney.

(Anatomy) A tubular bodily canal or passage, especially one for carrying a glandular secretion

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.

A tube or pipe for enclosing electrical cables or wires.

The lipped opening in such a pipe.

To channel through a duct

A fishing net.

To supply with ducts.

A pipe or duct that carries gaseous combustion products away from the point of combustion (such as a furnace).

A pipe, tube or canal which carries gas or liquid from one place to another

An enclosed passageway in which to direct air or other gaseous current along.

An enclosure or channel for electrical cable runs, telephone cables, or other conductors

A woolly or downy substance; down, nap; a piece of this.

(anatomy) a vessel for conveying lymph or glandular secretions such as tears or bile

In an organ flue pipe, the opening between the lower lip and the languet.

(botany) a tube or elongated cavity (such as a xylem vessel) for conveying water, sap, or air

An inclosed passage way for establishing and directing a current of air, gases, etc.; an air passage

(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

In an organ flue pipe, the opening between the lower lip and the languet.

(obsolete) guidance, direction

Light down, such as rises from cotton, fur, etc.; very fine lint or hair.

To enclose in a duct

Flat blade-like projection on the arm of an anchor

To channel something (such as a gas) or propagate something (such as radio waves) through a duct or series of ducts

Organ pipe whose tone is produced by air passing across the sharp edge of a fissure or lip

Any tube or canal by which a fluid or other substance is conducted or conveyed.

A conduit to carry off smoke

One of the vessels of an animal body by which the products of glandular secretion are conveyed to their destination.

A large, elongated cell, either round or prismatic, usually found associated with woody fiber.

Guidance; direction.

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