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flute

See also: flûte, and flûté

English

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A side-blown flute (noun sense 1).
 
A recorder, sometimes also called a flute (noun sense 2).
 
Champagne in a classic flute (noun sense 3).
 
Baguettes or flutes (noun sense 6).
  • enPR: flo͞ot, IPA(key): /fluːt/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Rhymes: -uːt

Etymology 1

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From Middle English fleute, floute, flote, from Old French flaute, fleüte, from Old Provençal flaüt, of uncertain origin. Perhaps ultimately from three possibilities:

Doublet of flauta and fluyt.

Noun

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flute (plural flutes)

  2. (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.
  3. (colloquial) A recorder, also a woodwind instrument.
  4. A glass with a long, narrow bowl and a long stem, used for drinking wine, especially champagne.
    • 2018, Sally Rooney, “Six Months Later (July 2013)”, in Normal People:
      These are champagne glasses, says Peggy.
      No, I mean the tall ones, Jamie says.
      You're thinking of flutes, says Peggy. These are coupes.
  5. 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.
    Coordinate term: (cutter feature) tooth
  6. (architecture, firearms) A semicylindrical vertical groove, as in a pillar, in plaited cloth, or in a rifle barrel to cut down the weight.
  7. A long French bread roll, baguette.[1]
  8. An organ stop with a flute-like sound.
  9. A shuttle in weaving tapestry etc.
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Descendants
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  • → Irish: fliúit
  • → Welsh: ffliwt
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References
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  1. ^ 1858, Peter Lund Simmonds, The Dictionary of Trade Products

Verb

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fluted pillars

flute (third-person singular simple present flutes, present participle fluting, simple past and past participle fluted)

  1. (intransitive) To play on a flute.
  2. (intransitive) To make a flutelike sound.
    • 1895, S. R. Crockett, A Cry Across the Black Water:
      The green turf was velvet underfoot. The blackbirds fluted in the hazels there.
  3. (transitive) To utter with a flutelike sound.
  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.).
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Etymology 2

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Compare French flûte (“a transport”)?, Dutch fluit.

Noun

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flute (plural flutes)

  1. A kind of flyboat; a storeship.

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French

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Noun

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flute f (plural flutes)

  1. post-1990 spelling of flûte

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flute

  1. inflection of fluten:
    1. first-person singular present
    2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
    3. singular imperative

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Etymology

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From flûte, from French flûte, from Old French fleüte, from Old Occitan flaut.

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  • IPA(key): /ˈflut/
  • Rhymes: -ut
  • Hyphenation: flùte

Noun

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flute m (invariable)

  1. flute (type of glass)
    Synonyms: flûte, fluttino
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