FLUTE
\flˈuːt], \flˈuːt], \f_l_ˈuː_t]\
Definitions of FLUTE
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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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.
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A similar channel or groove made in wood or other material, esp. in plaited cloth, as in a lady's ruffle.
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A long French breakfast roll.
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A stop in an organ, having a flutelike sound.
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A kind of flyboat; a storeship.
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To play on, or as on, a flute; to make a flutelike sound.
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To play, whistle, or sing with a clear, soft note, like that of a flute.
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To form flutes or channels in, as in a column, a ruffle, etc.
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A channel of curved section; - usually applied to one of a vertical series of such channels used to decorate columns and pilasters in classical architecture. See Illust. under Base, n.
By Oddity Software
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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.
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A similar channel or groove made in wood or other material, esp. in plaited cloth, as in a lady's ruffle.
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A long French breakfast roll.
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A stop in an organ, having a flutelike sound.
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A kind of flyboat; a storeship.
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To play on, or as on, a flute; to make a flutelike sound.
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To play, whistle, or sing with a clear, soft note, like that of a flute.
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To form flutes or channels in, as in a column, a ruffle, etc.
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A channel of curved section; - usually applied to one of a vertical series of such channels used to decorate columns and pilasters in classical architecture. See Illust. under Base, n.
By Noah Webster.
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A musical wind-instrument furnished with finger-holes and keys; a long channel or groove cut in the shaft of a column; a similar groove formed for decoration in wood, cloth, etc.
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To sound a flute; form parallel grooves or channels in; as, to flute a ruffle.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A musical pipe with finger holes and keys sounded by blowing; a channel, as on a pillar, called also FLUTING.
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To play the flute.
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To form flutes or channels in.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To corrugate; crimp.
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A small tubular wind - instrument with holes along the sides.
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A groove, as in a column; a corrugation; crimping.
By James Champlin Fernald
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n. [French, Latin] A cylindrical wind instrument, with holes along its length, stopped by the fingers or by keys opened by the fingers;—a channel in a column or pillar;—a similar channel or groove in wood-work, or in muslin, as a lady’s ruffle.
