Flute meaning

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The definition of a flute is a long tube-shaped wind instrument that makes a high pitched sound by blowing across a hole.

An example of a flute is the instrument that Jeanne Baxtresser from the New York Philharmonic plays.

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Flute is defined as to make rounded grooves in something.

An example of flute is to make rounded edges around the edge of an apple pie.

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A tall narrow wineglass, often used for champagne.
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A high-pitched woodwind instrument consisting of a slender tube closed at one end with keys and finger holes on the side and an opening near the closed end across which the breath is blown.
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Any of various similar reedless woodwind instruments, such as the recorder.
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An organ stop whose flue pipe produces a flutelike tone.
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A long, usually rounded groove incised as a decorative motif on the shaft of a column, for example.
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A similar groove or furrow, as in a pleated ruffle of cloth or on a piece of furniture.
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To play (a tune) on a flute.
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To produce in a flutelike tone.
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To make flutes in (a column, for example).
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To play a flute.
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To sing, whistle, or speak with a flutelike tone.
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A tall, slender wineglass, used esp. for champagne.
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A high-pitched wind instrument consisting of a long, slender tube, played by blowing across a hole near one end: by fingering the holes and keys along its length, the player can produce various tones.
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Any of various similar instruments, as the fipple flute.
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An ornamental groove or pleat in cloth, etc.
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A long, vertical, rounded groove in the shaft of a column.
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A flue pipe.
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A flue organ stop with a flutelike tone.
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To sing, speak, whistle, etc. in a flutelike tone.
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To play on the flute.
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To make long, rounded grooves in (a column, etc.)
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To play on the flute.
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To sing, speak, whistle, etc. in a flutelike tone.
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(music) A woodwind instrument consisting of a metal, wood or bamboo tube with a row of circular holes and played by blowing across a hole in the side of one end or through a narrow channel at one end against a sharp edge, while covering none, some or all of the holes with the fingers to vary the note played.
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A glass with a long, narrow bowl and a long stem, used for drinking wine, especially champagne.
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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.
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(architecture, firearms) A semicylindrical vertical groove, as in a pillar, in plaited cloth, or in a rifle barrel to cut down the weight.
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A long French bread roll.

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An organ stop with a flute-like sound.
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(intransitive) To play on a flute.
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(intransitive) To make a flutelike sound.
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To utter with a flutelike sound.
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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.).
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A kind of flyboat; a storeship.
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Origin of flute

Middle English floute from Old French flaute from Old Provençal flaüt perhaps a blend of flaujol flageolet (from Vulgar Latin flābeolum flageolet) laut lute lute1

Sentence Examples

  • Less frequently we hear of the flute (pipe) and later also of the fiddle (ficYele).

  • And now to-night my flute has waked the echoes over that very water.

  • According to the legend, Athena, who had invented the flute, threw it away in disgust, because it distorted the features.

  • Thus there was quite as much important solo music for the flute as for the violin; and almost more music for the viola da gamba than for the violoncello.

  • The legend that Athena, observing in the water the distortion of her features caused by playing that instrument, flung it away, probably indicates that the Boeotians whom the Athenians regarded with contempt, used the flute in their worship of the Boeotian Athena.

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