Flute

Quick meaning: Flute is a noun meaning (colloquial) A recorder, also a woodwind instrument.

Meaning

(colloquial) A recorder, also a woodwind instrument.

More Meanings

1. A glass with a long, narrow bowl and a long stem, used for drinking wine, especially champagne.
2. (architecture, firearms) A semicylindrical vertical groove, as in a pillar, in plaited cloth, or in a rifle barrel to cut down the weight.
3. A long French bread roll, baguette.
4. An organ stop with a flute-like sound.
5. A shuttle in weaving tapestry etc.
6. (music) 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.
7. 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.

Example Sentences

The green turf was velvet underfoot. The blackbirds fluted in the hazels there.

The group played huge drums placed overhead, along with flutes and a kotolike zither.

These are champagne glasses, says Peggy. No, I mean the tall ones, Jamie says. You're thinking of flutes, says Peggy. These are coupes.

After another alternation of the two elements, there is a more playful episode, in which flute and bassoon take up the first element, with swooping glissando on the ondes Martenot.

Word Forms

• flutes
• fluting
• fluted

Synonyms for flute

Depending on context, synonyms include fluting.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include shakuhachi, pipe, piper, recorder, cuss, damn.

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