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flute
  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.
  2. (music) A recorder, also a woodwind instrument.
  3. A glass with a long, narrow bowl and a long stem, used for drinking wine, especially champagne.
  4. 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
  5. (architecture, firearms) A semicylindrical vertical groove, as in a pillar, in plaited cloth, or in a rifle barrel to cut down the weight.
  6. A long French bread roll.
  7. An organ stop with a flute-like sound.
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  9. Examples:
    1. “Walking there, we found many tourists looking on as they saw people dancing to a man dressed as Krishna playing a flute.”
      “He traced a wide, branching fissure down the column's flute with his thick finger.”
fluting
  1. (architecture) A decoration consisting of parallel, normally vertical, flutes (grooves) incised into the surface
  2. The act of making such grooves
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fluter
  1. Someone who plays a flute.
  2. One who makes grooves or flutings.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “The fluter enchanted the audience with their melodic flute solos.”
      “An' the old-witch boy is a fluter, an' when the old lady want to dance it's the same boy playing for the old lady.”
      “Reaction to the interview, which was published on fluter, an otherwise little-read Web magazine sponsored by a government-financed NGO aimed at increasing civic participation, was immense.”
flutonette
  1. (music) A type of flute that has a clarinet mouthpiece
flute
  1. A kind of flyboat; a storeship.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Walking there, we found many tourists looking on as they saw people dancing to a man dressed as Krishna playing a flute.”
      “He traced a wide, branching fissure down the column's flute with his thick finger.”
flutiness
  1. The state or condition of being fluty.
flutings
  1. plural of fluting
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  3. Examples:
    1. “In it is a niche, wherein the statue of St. Canice stood, and inverted stone cones with eight grooves, or flutings, for holy water.”
      “Cypress trunk flutings and druidlike knees rise everywhere, and mud turtles paddle clumsily through the talmin-mirrored waters.”
      “Two broken minarets over the main arch resemble the Qutb in their flutings.”
fluters
flutes
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