flute
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Noun (3)flutes
- 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 blownSynonyms: transverse fluteType of woodwind, woodwind instrumentKinds nose flute, fife, C flute, piccolo
- a tall narrow wineglassSynonyms: flute glasschampagne fluteType of wineglass
- a groove or furrow in cloth etc. (particularly a shallow concave groove on the shaft of a column)Synonyms: flutingType of groove, channel
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Translations
Noun woodwind instrument
- Spanish
- flauta
- French
- flûte
- German
- Flöte
- Italian
- flauto
- Portuguese
- flauta
- Turkish
- flüt
- Russian
- фле́йта fléjta
- Arabic
- نَاي nāy
- Chinese
- 长笛 chángdí
- Japanese
- フルート furūto
35 more languages
- Dutch
- fluit
- Polish
- flet
- Swedish
- flöjt
- Greek
- φλάουτο fláouto
- Korean
- 플루트 peulluteu
- Indonesian
- suling
- Vietnamese
- sáo
- Hungarian
- fuvola
- Portuguese (PT)
- flauta
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 長笛 chángdí
- Albanian
- fyell
- Breton
- fleüt
- Catalan
- flauta
- Czech
- flétna
- Danish
- fløjte
- Esperanto
- fluto
- Estonian
- flööt
- Finnish
- huilu
- Georgian
- ფლეიტა pleiṭa
- Hebrew
- חָלִיל khalil
- Icelandic
- flauta
- Kurdish
- bilûr
- Latvian
- flauta
- Lithuanian
- fleita
- Malagasy
- sodina
- Norwegian
- fløyte
- Romanian
- flaut
- Scottish Gaelic
- cuisle-chiùil
- Serbo-Croatian
- flauta
- Slovak
- flauta
- Slovenian
- flavta
- Swahili
- filimbi
- Walloon
- flûte
- Welsh
- ffliwt
- Yiddish
- פֿלייט fleyt
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: OE. floute, floite, fr. OF. flaüte, flahute, flahuste, F. fl…te; cf. LL. flauta, D. fluit. See Flute, intransitive verb
1. 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.
The breathing flute's soft notes are heard around.— Alexander Pope
2. Architecture 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, noun
3. A similar channel or groove made in wood or other material, esp. in plaited cloth, as in a lady's ruffle.
4. A long French breakfast roll. Simonds.
5. A stop in an organ, having a flutelike sound.
Flute bit, a boring tool for piercing ebony, rosewood, and other hard woods. — Flute pipe, an organ pipe having a sharp lip or wind-cutter which imparts vibrations to the column of air in the pipe. Knight, Edward Henry
Origin: Cf. F. flûte a transport, D. fluit.
A kind of flyboat; a storeship.
Armed en flûte (…) Nav., partially armed.
Origin: OE. flouten, floiten, OF. flaüter, fleüter, flouster, F. flûter, cf. D. fluiten; ascribed to an assumed LL. flautare, flatuare, fr. L. flatus a blowing, fr. flare to blow. Cf. Flout, Flageolet, Flatulent.
To play on, or as on, a flute; to make a flutelike sound.
1. To play, whistle, or sing with a clear, soft note, like that of a flute.
Knaves are men, That lute and flute fantastic tenderness.— Alfred Tennyson
The redwing flutes his o-ka-lee.— Ralph Waldo Emerson
2. To form flutes or channels in, as in a column, a ruffle, etc.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54