(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.
Example Sentences:
(1) The major components of an alkaloid-free, flue-cured, tobacco essential oil sample are isolated and identified.
(2) The elevated levels in the winter can be related to the use of NO2-producing heating appliances especially the gas- or oilstove without a flue.
(3) An analytical method is developed to quantitatively determine glucosamine, galactosamine, and mannosamine in dried-and-ground burley and flue-cured tobaccos.
(4) The predominant adverse effects were fatigue, flue-like illness and leukopenia.
(5) In about half the world's households, such fuels are used for cooking daily, usually without a flue or chimney and with poor ventilation.
(6) More experimental techniques to scrub CO2 from flue gas without the two-step process include using seawater to absorb the gas and then returning the mixture back to the ocean for long-term storage.
(7) Dark tobacco smoking was the strongest risk factor, with an RR 2.5 times higher than that showed by light (flue-cured) tobacco smokers and 35 times that of non-smokers.
(8) Three to four weeks following exposure to HIV there is a phase of rapid viral replication, high levels of plasma viremia, and development of a "flue like" illness.
(9) There was no statistically significant difference in specific mouse skin carcinogenicity between smoke condensate from plain, flue-cured tobacco cigarettes with a normal tar to nicotine ratio and condensate from filter-tip cigarettes made from selected flue-cured tobaccos with a reduced tar to nicotine ratio.
(10) Demand for the dark tobaccos which dominate EC production has fallen, while demand for light flue cured tobacco like Virginia has risen.
(11) Squamous cell carcinoma of the lung was observed in rats, when copper ore, flue dust, and arsenic trioxide were instilled into the lung together with benzo[a]pyrene (B[a]P. The incidence of squamous cell carcinoma of the lung in rats exposed to Kinkaseki, flue dust, and As2O3 in addition to B[a]P was higher than that in rats given B[a]P alone.
(12) Losses of methomyl during flue-curing averaged 96% over locations, rates of application, and times of harvest, compared to an average loss of 98% due to weathering in the field for 5 days.
(13) This difficulty becomes especially conspicuous when the carcinogenicity is to be determined after the inhalation of, for example, diesel engine exhaust, coal oven flue gas, or cadmium compounds.
(14) We handed over our credit card details and three days later a £422 Hunter Hawk (4 kilowatt) model arrived on a pallet (since burned) plus the associated flue.
(15) In contrast to the Diesel exhaust exposure group, the lungs of the rats exposed to coal oven flue gas mixed with pyrolyzed pitch had much less severe inflammatory changes, but developed 20 squamous cell tumours (apprx.
(16) Flue gas temperatures, measured from the sampling point at the base of the exhaust stack, varied over the range 186-305 degrees C, and bacteria were recovered from this position in numbers up to 400 cfu m-3 (mean 56 cfu m-3).
(17) Fatty acids obtained by saponification of a hexane-soluble fraction of flue-cured tobacco were converted to their methyl esters.
(18) It seems likely that the chimney sweep's inhalation of soot particles and locally irritating flue gases may have contributed to the increased occurrence of chest symptoms in this occupational group.
(19) Disappearance of monocrotophos from flue-cured tobacco was studied at three locations (Kinston, Clayton, and Reidsville, North Carolina) in 1973.
(20) To exclude the carcinogenicity of trace radioactive elements in the mine powder and flue dust and clarify those inorganic chemical elements related to carcinogenesis of lung cancer, 15 non-radioactive inorganic chemical elements (CM1) responsible for mutagenesis, tumorigenesis and promotion of cancer from mine powder and flue dust were mixed for Ames test and carcinoma-inducing-experiment in animals.
Parget
Definition:
(v. t.) To coat with parget; to plaster, as walls, or the interior of flues; as, to parget the outside of their houses.
(v. t.) To paint; to cover over.
(v. i.) To lay on plaster.
(v. i.) To paint, as the face.
(n.) Gypsum or plaster stone.
(n.) Plaster, as for lining the interior of flues, or for stuccowork.
(n.) Paint, especially for the face.
Example Sentences:
(1) This was followed by a Greek chorus comprising Rebecca Adlington and Lucy Pargeter, who wailed that they looked much, much worse.
(2) Many fewer people at Radio 4, for example, knew that it was Nigel Pargeter who would fatally leave The Archers at Christmas 2011 , another recent example of a script-twist successfully protected.
(3) "The Brotherhood," concludes Alison Pargeter in the new edition of her eponymous biography of the movement , "has shifted from semi-clandestine opponent to legitimate political power almost overnight."
(4) James Pargeter is partner and head of residential projects at Drivers Jonas Deloitte and member of the Homes and Communities Agency's Design and Sustainability Advisory Group This content is brought to you by Guardian Professional.
(5) The protest against the development has received the backing of celebrities such as the actor Dominic West – who grew up in the area – comedian and TV presenter Paul O'Grady and stars of the rural soap Emmerdale including Roxanne Ghawam-Shahidi, Lucy Pargeter and Charley Webb.
(6) James Pargeter, head of residential projects at Deloitte real estate, agreed: "Even in London [£600,000] will get you quite a few options.
(7) For Pargeter the answer is no – or at least, not yet: "The movement can still rely upon a core base who will vote for them because of what they stand for as much as for what they do or achieve politically."