(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.
Pipe
Definition:
(n.) A wind instrument of music, consisting of a tube or tubes of straw, reed, wood, or metal; any tube which produces musical sounds; as, a shepherd's pipe; the pipe of an organ.
(n.) Any long tube or hollow body of wood, metal, earthenware, or the like: especially, one used as a conductor of water, steam, gas, etc.
(n.) A small bowl with a hollow steam, -- used in smoking tobacco, and, sometimes, other substances.
(n.) A passageway for the air in speaking and breathing; the windpipe, or one of its divisions.
(n.) The key or sound of the voice.
(n.) The peeping whistle, call, or note of a bird.
(n.) The bagpipe; as, the pipes of Lucknow.
(n.) An elongated body or vein of ore.
(n.) A roll formerly used in the English exchequer, otherwise called the Great Roll, on which were taken down the accounts of debts to the king; -- so called because put together like a pipe.
(n.) A boatswain's whistle, used to call the crew to their duties; also, the sound of it.
(n.) A cask usually containing two hogsheads, or 126 wine gallons; also, the quantity which it contains.
(v. i.) To play on a pipe, fife, flute, or other tubular wind instrument of music.
(v. i.) To call, convey orders, etc., by means of signals on a pipe or whistle carried by a boatswain.
(v. i.) To emit or have a shrill sound like that of a pipe; to whistle.
(v. i.) To become hollow in the process of solodifying; -- said of an ingot, as of steel.
(v. t.) To perform, as a tune, by playing on a pipe, flute, fife, etc.; to utter in the shrill tone of a pipe.
(v. t.) To call or direct, as a crew, by the boatswain's whistle.
(v. t.) To furnish or equip with pipes; as, to pipe an engine, or a building.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Hamilton-Wentworth regional health department was asked by one of its municipalities to determine whether the present water supply and sewage disposal methods used in a community without piped water and regional sewage disposal posed a threat to the health of its residents.
(2) We ganged up against the tweed-suited, pipe-smoking brigade.
(3) A reduction of salmonellae during the passage of the pump and pressure conduit-pipe, combining east- and west-side of Kiel fjord, could be seen.
(4) His next target, apart from the straightforward matter of retaining his champion's title this winter, is 4,182, being the number of winners trained by Martin Pipe, with whom he had seven highly productive years at the start of his career.
(5) In an emergency, the devices use multiple mechanisms – including clamps and shears – to try to choke off the oil flowing up from a pipe and disconnect the rig from the well.
(6) However, a homemade pipe bomb thrown at a police patrol in north Belfast earlier this year was described as of a new, sophisticated variety that the PSNI had not seen before.
(7) In 1967-1969 survey the ratio of observed to expected concordance for smoking was higher among the monozygotic twins than among the dizygotic twins for those who had never smoked (overall rate ratio, 1.38; 95 percent confidence interval, 1.25 to 1.54), for former smokers (overall rate ratio, 1.59; 95 percent confidence interval, 1.35 to 1.85), for current cigarette smokers (overall rate ratio, 1.18; 95 percent confidence interval, 1.11 to 1.26), and for current cigar or pipe smokers (overall rate ratio, 1.60; 95 percent confidence interval, 1.22 to 2.06).
(8) After visiting the H-blocks, the Catholic archbishop Cardinal Tomás Ó Fiaich compared the conditions to "the sewer pipes in the slums of Calcutta".
(9) Vibratome sectons are incubated at 37 degrees C for 60 min in 0.1 M Pipes buffer, pH 7.8, containing 3 mM cerium chloride and 0.1 mM sodium urate.
(10) Women smokers, cigar, and pipe smokers also face an increased risk for lung cancer.
(11) While studying forced inhale the diaphragms were set up at Fleish pipe airflow input.
(12) In addition, the risk of lung cancer associated with other methods of tobacco consumption--in particular, the use of bamboo water-pipes and long-stem pipes--is uncertain.
(13) Escherichia coli, Citrobacter freundii and Klebsiella pneumoniae grew after the experimental contamination for many weeks on the rubber hose until the test was finally stopped, in the other pipes and hoses (glass, high-grade steel, PVC, PE, PA, PTFE and silicone) E. coli could be found for maximal 7 weeks, Citrobacter freundii for 1 week and Klebsiella pneumoniae for maximal 3 weeks.
(14) Building CHP stations near industrial sites means that the heat can be piped into factories or buildings as high pressure steam or hot water.
(15) The in vitro binding properties of 1-(cyclopropylmethyl)-4-(2'-(4''-fluorophenyl)-2'-oxoethyl)pipe ridi ne HBr, [3H]DuP 734, a novel sigma receptor ligand, were examined in homogenates of guinea pig brain.
(16) Social changes going on in the society were reflected in choice of substance forms by younger people as compared to their elders (e.g., cigarettes vs pipes or cigars, heroin vs opium, manufactured vs village-produced alcohol).
(17) The reaction of an unspecific microorganism flora and of Legionella pneumophila in pipes and hoses has been described in the two previous communications.
(18) One company will effectively control the only data pipe going into a near majority of American homes, whether that’s internet TV or phones,” Stoltz said.
(19) Radical species are formed from the piperazine ring-based buffers Hepes (4-(2-hydroxyethyl)-1-piperazineethanesulfonic acid), Epps 4-(2-hydroxyethyl)-1-piperazinepropanesulfonic acid, and Pipes 1,4-piperazinediethanesulfonic acid, but not from Mes (4-morpholineethanesulfonic acid) which contains a morpholine ring.
(20) "Two guys came and spent several hours tracking down the cause, which turned out to be a blocked pipe.