Flue vs. Flute — What's the Difference?

A flue is a duct, pipe, or opening in a chimney for conveying exhaust gases from a fireplace, furnace, water heater, boiler, or generator to the outdoors. Historically the term flue meant the chimney itself.

The flute is a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group. Unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is an aerophone or reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air across an opening.

A duct for smoke and waste gases produced by a fire, a gas heater, a power station, or other fuel-burning installation

A wind instrument made from a tube with holes that are stopped by the fingers or keys, held vertically or horizontally (in which case it is also called a transverse flute) so that the player's breath strikes a narrow edge. The modern orchestral form is a transverse flute, typically made of metal, with an elaborate set of keys.

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

An ornamental vertical groove in a column.

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 tall, narrow wine glass

The lipped opening in such a pipe.

Play a flute or pipe.

A fishing net.

Make flutes or grooves in.

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

A high-pitched woodwind instrument consisting of a slender tube closed at one end with keys and finger holes on the side and an opening near the closed end across which the breath is blown. Also called transverse flute.

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

Any of various similar reedless woodwind instruments, such as the recorder.

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

An organ stop whose flue pipe produces a flutelike tone.

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

(Architecture) A long, usually rounded groove incised as a decorative motif on the shaft of a column, for example.

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

A similar groove or furrow, as in a pleated ruffle of cloth or on a piece of furniture.

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

A tall narrow wineglass, often used for champagne.

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

(Music) To play (a tune) on a flute.

Flat blade-like projection on the arm of an anchor

To produce in a flutelike tone.

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

To make flutes in (a column, for example).

A conduit to carry off smoke

(Music) To play a flute.

To sing, whistle, or speak with a flutelike tone.

A woodwind instrument consisting of a tube with a row of holes that produce sound through vibrations caused by air blown across the edge of the holes, often tuned by plugging one or more holes with a finger; the Western concert flute, a transverse side-blown flute of European origin.

(colloquial) A recorder, also a woodwind instrument.

A glass with a long, narrow bowl and a long stem, used for drinking wine, especially champagne.

A lengthwise groove, such as one of the lengthwise grooves on a classical column, or a groove on a cutting tool (such as a drill bit, endmill, or reamer), which helps to form both a cutting edge and a channel through which chips can escape

A semicylindrical vertical groove, as in a pillar, in plaited cloth, or in a rifle barrel to cut down the weight.

A long French bread roll, baguette.

An organ stop with a flute-like sound.

A shuttle in weaving tapestry etc.

A kind of flyboat; a storeship.

(intransitive) To play on a flute.

(intransitive) To make a flutelike sound.

(transitive) To utter with a flutelike sound.

(transitive) To form flutes or channels in (as in a column, a ruffle, etc.); to cut a semicylindrical vertical groove in (as in a pillar, etc.).

A musical wind instrument, consisting of a hollow cylinder or pipe, with holes along its length, stopped by the fingers or by keys which are opened by the fingers. The modern flute is closed at the upper end, and blown with the mouth at a lateral hole.

A similar channel or groove made in wood or other material, esp. in plaited cloth, as in a lady's ruffle.

A long French breakfast roll.

A stop in an organ, having a flutelike sound.

A kind of flyboat; a storeship.

To play on, or as on, a flute; to make a flutelike sound.

To play, whistle, or sing with a clear, soft note, like that of a flute.

To form flutes or channels in, as in a column, a ruffle, etc.

A high-pitched woodwind instrument; a slender tube closed at one end with finger holes on one end and an opening near the closed end across which the breath is blown

A tall narrow wineglass

A groove or furrow in cloth etc especially the shallow concave groove on the shaft of a column

Form flutes in