flute
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (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.Examples: "The breathing flute's ſoft notes are heard around, / And the ſhril trumpets mix their ſilver ſound; / The vaulted roofs vvith echoing muſic ring, / Theſe touch the vocal ſtops, and thoſe the trembling ſtring."; "The group played huge drums placed overhead, along with flutes and a kotolike zither."; "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."Synonyms: Western concert flute, edge-blown aerophone
2. (colloquial) A recorder, also a woodwind instrument.colloquial
3. (architecture, firearms) A semicylindrical vertical groove, as in a pillar, in plaited cloth, or in a rifle barrel to cut down the weight.
verb (English)
1. (intransitive) To play on a flute.intransitive
2. (intransitive) To make a flutelike sound.Examples: "The green turf was velvet underfoot. The blackbirds fluted in the hazels there."intransitive
3. (transitive) To utter with a flutelike sound.Examples: "“Oh, there's my precious Poppet,” said Phyllis, as a distant barking reached the ears. “He's asking for his dinner, the sweet little angel. All right, darling, Mother's coming,” she fluted, and buzzed off on the errand of mercy."transitive
4. (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.).transitive
Definition source: Wiktionary