Definition of flute in English:
flute
noun fluːtflut
1A wind instrument made from a tube with holes that are stopped by the fingers or keys, held vertically or horizontally (in which case it is also called a transverse flute) so that the player's breath strikes a narrow edge. The modern orchestral form is a transverse flute, typically made of metal, with an elaborate set of keys.
- Ancient instruments used for court music include zithers, flutes, reed instruments, and percussion.
- Dances for these occasions were performed while wearing ankle bells and were accompanied by traditional instruments such as flutes, horns, and drums.
- Reading the literature, one can hear fiddles, wood flutes, bagpipes, guitar, mandolins and bodhráns.
- Using a variety of home-made instruments including bamboo flutes, the pupils performed a musical piece in the Minister's honour, based on sounds of the rainforest.
- I can play an instrument, the flute, but if I could choose again it would have to be a piano, and I swear I'm going to learn the Ukelele by the time I go to Blackpool next year!
- The satyr's hands are raised as if to play a flute, yet the instrument itself is not represented.
- The traditional instruments are bagpipes, reed flutes, drums, and wind instruments.
- Wooden flutes lay on top of an old-fashioned writing desk, and a lute leaned against a far wall.
- A wooden flute trills what sounds like an Eastern melody.
- He is a multiple award-winning composer who has written numerous compositions for flute and other orchestra instruments.
- The traditional Japanese flute weaved its soulful melody.
- We had people trying saxophone, cello, flutes, recorders, piano and all sorts.
- Two thirds of the children had some musical experience and those with orchestral skills played violins, clarinets, cellos, flutes and saxophones.
- Trained listeners can not only distinguish between the different families of instruments but even recognize individual violins, flutes, clarinets, etc.
- Music students ranging in ages from four to 18 took part in the protest and carried with them their instruments ranging from violins, cellos and clarinets to flutes and guitars.
- It is foolish to try and figure out which is the most important instrument in an orchestra - the violin, the flute or the clarinet.
- Over the next hour she will transport the children with Highland stories about seal folk and bad fairies and music from her collection of wooden and bamboo flutes.
- Richard started playing music with his peers in high school and produced his first handmade flute at 17 which started him on his exploration into the wholeness of sound.
- Some merchants have cassettes and CDs for sale, and more than a few offer handcrafted instruments, usually flutes made from wood or clay, but also more elaborate stringed instruments.
- Drums and the flute were the musical instruments of the Indians before the Spanish conquest.
whistle, penny whistle, flute, recorder, fife- 1.1 An organ stop with wooden or metal flue pipes producing a tone similar to that of a flute.
- A colorful Swell Oboe and Vox Humana provide the organ with attractive solo voices; the latter adds a mystical contribution to the strings and flutes of the organ.
- In Petrusberg, South Africa, churchgoers voted not to get rid of a friend - a cobra who lived in the ceiling, always came out to listen when the organist played the organ's flute stops, fled back to its hole when the preaching started.
- After intermission, the musicians began gently with pieces featuring the organ's flute stops and a quartet of recorders.
2Architecture
An ornamental vertical groove in a column.- This capital cannot be associated with the plain marble drum because of its size and the flutes on the necking.
- A more elaborate Doric capital of white marble, with flutes on the necking, is stored west of the building, to the west of the marble throne in room A.
- The inscriber removed two of the column's flutes, so that five hexameters of verse could be carved upon the marble.
- The semielliptical fanlight over the entrance door is framed by a wooden arch neatly carved with flutes and stylized flowers.
- It was yellowish-brown, and it collected in the flutes of the column.
- 2.1 A trumpet-shaped frill on a dress or other garment.
- Whether it's flute hem, a-lines, or high-waisted pencils, we have the skirt for you.
- On this page look out for the dropped waist bodice, above knee skirt lengths that begin to hesitate and gain illusory length with the addition of flutes and frills.
- Flute skirts emphasise the waist.
- I am absolutely the modern day version of a dame with flute skirts and heels.
- The skirt has seven gores, the seams being concealed by rolling flutes which result from plaits underfolded below the hips.
ruffle, flounce, ruff, furbelow, jabot, peplum, ruche, ruching, gather, tuck, fringe
3A tall, narrow wine glass.
a flute of champagne- Inside, waiters were seen serving guests with flutes of champagne, while deliveries of sushi and presents were taken through the main entrance.
- Serve the champagne, preferably in flutes, filling each glass no more than halfway to allow the wine to breathe.
- Champagne is best served in a tall flute or tulip glasses.
- If you don't own cocktail glasses, champagne flutes are a good substitute.
- His crystal champagne flute was smashed into several million pieces.
- The champagne flute is tall and narrow to slow the loss of the CO2 bubbles, to keep it from going ‘flat’ for as long as possible.
- I began to take photographs of the food on the table, the champagne flutes towering behind the chocolate truffles that I was already dying to eat.
- Sparkling wines should be served in thick glasses with straight sides or flutes so that the fizz is preserved.
- Newlyweds can pick either a starter set of Wedgewood china or a crystal set of eight wine goblets and champagne flutes from Waterford, with a retail value of $440.
- Guests have been asked for eight sherry glasses, eight champagne flutes, eight whisky tumblers, eight brandy goblets and two decanters.
- The cupboards containing the champagne, bucket, and flutes have also been highlighted.
- Bubbly was had with lunch in plastic champagne flutes.
- We are soon surrounded by towels and vases and champagne flutes and all sorts of other gifts.
- Everything from plastic cups, empty beer bottles, used disposable coffee cups, to wine glasses and champagne flutes can be found at the exhibit.
- What normally happens is they fall to the floor by accident with their champagne flutes in their hands and remain down there, flopping around, chatting and laughing hysterically for quite a bit of time.
- Not today, but sometime shortly, I will drink a flute of champagne to you Charlie and express the wish that you will be around for many more years to celebrate many more birthdays.
- Now everyone's in a movie, or a TV show, drinking champagne out of long flutes on a Friday night.
- Her hand gently motions for David's still full flute.
- I picked up the champagne flutes, appreciating the finely cut crystal stems - they were so elegant.
- Amid the hairspray bottles and eye-shadow palettes littering the tables lay overturned plastic champagne flutes.
verb fluːtflut
1literary no object Play a flute or pipe.
- When the corn began to grow the chief put up his altar, sang and fluted, but he did all that alone.
- When he reached the river's edge, he came to a sharp halt, but his fingers fluted on, the instrument still tuneful.
play on a pipe- 1.1 Speak in a melodious way.‘What do you do?’ she fluted
- There are no melodramatic trills or fluting crescendos in her everyday speech.
- Her voice is particularly attractive: fluted and clear, kinder than the hard-edged Sloane of caricature and, most importantly, never sneering.
- "They are doing so much more work, preventing so much more illness, and treating patients much better!" she fluted.
- We could clearly hear the high fluting voice of Toni, and the calmer, flatter tones of Sid.
- In fluting, childish voices, they spoke of their compassion for the poor and homeless.
2with object Make flutes or grooves in.
- On a lightly floured surface, roll out the pastry to form a thin circle or rectangle, place it on a lightly greased baking sheet or tin, and lip or flute the edge.
- These are supported by small round-arched and fluted flying buttresses topped by figurines of scroll-bearing prophets.
- A glaze highlights detailing in the ginger-stained doors and fluted columns.
- The new space was panelled throughout, and fluted Corinthian columns and pilasters were added.
- Fluted columns supported the ceiling in two rows, like massive redwoods.
- There were fluted columns on either side of the broad mahogany double-doors, and they were twined with ivy.
- The windows of this room-the most formal in the house-are framed at the sides and top by wood that has been fluted to resemble Greek columns.
- In all the caves they were surrounded by beautifully fluted and fretted columns whose pure white frosted surfaces shone out like beacons in the harsh magnesium light of their lanterns.
- "The rising white fluted columns supporting the two exquisite domes are special to that era, " he said.
- Finally we were able to descend near to the seafloor, which was littered with fallen chimneys, each several feet in diameter and fluted like a column of a Greek temple.
- Runoff from countless storms has worn the 50-to 60-foot-tall pink sandstone walls smooth, fluting some of its sections.
- The large diameter rolls were fluted to give traction to the feed, and provided with a quick acting-lever operated mechanism for raising or lowering the rolls.
- You walk into the house on shiny wooden floors, topped by rounded skirtings and fluted ceiling with subtle, concealed lighting.
- Neoclassical commodes, desks, and some chairs had fluted tapered legs reminiscent of upside-down obelisks.
- He began by adding a light Baroque facade with pilasters and massive fluted columns at the main, upper tier, topped by a balustrade with vases and statues.
- In some places both fingers from the roof and the floor had joined and formed columns, some fluted, some smooth, which glowed peach or filigree rose when the torchlight fell upon them.
- In 1773-84 the whole church was remodelled in eighteenth - century taste, the columns of the choir were fluted, the apse and doors were finished in Louis XVI style.
- The imposing entrance portico supported by six fluted Doric columns was probably the first exercise in classicism in Deadwood.
- A lovely wall of stone and brick layers and fluted coping stones, with yew above, brought us into the Roman town of Isurium, now Aldborough.
- The smaller one is delicately fluted and covered in mosaic.
grooved, channelled, furrowed, ribbed, corrugated, ridged
Derivatives
flute-like
- But generally it is accepted that choirboys produce a more flute-like, pure, penetrating voice than girls, who have a slightly more breathy and husky quality.
- The flute-like ney and the rebec-like kemenche make peculiar sounds that instantly evoke Turkey or Persia and which have an eerily human affect in their tone that is remarkable.
- The flute-like tones created by blowing air into the pipes is weirdly animal-like.
- The duduk is a small, flute-like instrument made out of apricot wood and played in many parts of the Middle East and Central Asia.
- The village band consisted of five men with flute-like objects, one bloke with an enormous bass drum and a small child with a snare drum and a bad sense of rhythm.
adjective
Origin
Middle English: from Old French flahute, probably from Provençal flaüt, perhaps a blend of flaujol 'flageolet' + laüt 'lute'.
Rhymes
acute, argute, astute, beaut, Beirut, boot, bruit, brut, brute, Bute, butte, Canute, cheroot, chute, commute, compute, confute, coot, cute, depute, dilute, dispute, galoot, hoot, impute, jute, loot, lute, minute, moot, newt, outshoot, permute, pollute, pursuit, recruit, refute, repute, route, salute, Salyut, scoot, shoot, Shute, sloot, snoot, subacute, suit, telecommute, Tonton Macoute, toot, transmute, undershoot, uproot, Ute, volute
Definition of flute in US English:
flute
nounflo͞otflut
1A wind instrument made from a tube with holes along it that are stopped by the fingers or keys, held vertically or horizontally so that the player's breath strikes a narrow edge. The modern orchestral form, typically made of metal, is held horizontally and has an elaborate set of keys.
- Wooden flutes lay on top of an old-fashioned writing desk, and a lute leaned against a far wall.
- We had people trying saxophone, cello, flutes, recorders, piano and all sorts.
- A wooden flute trills what sounds like an Eastern melody.
- Using a variety of home-made instruments including bamboo flutes, the pupils performed a musical piece in the Minister's honour, based on sounds of the rainforest.
- The traditional instruments are bagpipes, reed flutes, drums, and wind instruments.
- He is a multiple award-winning composer who has written numerous compositions for flute and other orchestra instruments.
- Two thirds of the children had some musical experience and those with orchestral skills played violins, clarinets, cellos, flutes and saxophones.
- The satyr's hands are raised as if to play a flute, yet the instrument itself is not represented.
- Richard started playing music with his peers in high school and produced his first handmade flute at 17 which started him on his exploration into the wholeness of sound.
- It is foolish to try and figure out which is the most important instrument in an orchestra - the violin, the flute or the clarinet.
- I can play an instrument, the flute, but if I could choose again it would have to be a piano, and I swear I'm going to learn the Ukelele by the time I go to Blackpool next year!
- The traditional Japanese flute weaved its soulful melody.
- Some merchants have cassettes and CDs for sale, and more than a few offer handcrafted instruments, usually flutes made from wood or clay, but also more elaborate stringed instruments.
- Ancient instruments used for court music include zithers, flutes, reed instruments, and percussion.
- Over the next hour she will transport the children with Highland stories about seal folk and bad fairies and music from her collection of wooden and bamboo flutes.
- Drums and the flute were the musical instruments of the Indians before the Spanish conquest.
- Reading the literature, one can hear fiddles, wood flutes, bagpipes, guitar, mandolins and bodhráns.
- Music students ranging in ages from four to 18 took part in the protest and carried with them their instruments ranging from violins, cellos and clarinets to flutes and guitars.
- Dances for these occasions were performed while wearing ankle bells and were accompanied by traditional instruments such as flutes, horns, and drums.
- Trained listeners can not only distinguish between the different families of instruments but even recognize individual violins, flutes, clarinets, etc.
whistle, penny whistle, flute, recorder, fife- 1.1 An organ stop with wooden or metal flue pipes producing a similar tone.
- A colorful Swell Oboe and Vox Humana provide the organ with attractive solo voices; the latter adds a mystical contribution to the strings and flutes of the organ.
- In Petrusberg, South Africa, churchgoers voted not to get rid of a friend - a cobra who lived in the ceiling, always came out to listen when the organist played the organ's flute stops, fled back to its hole when the preaching started.
- After intermission, the musicians began gently with pieces featuring the organ's flute stops and a quartet of recorders.
2Architecture
An ornamental vertical groove in a column.- A more elaborate Doric capital of white marble, with flutes on the necking, is stored west of the building, to the west of the marble throne in room A.
- This capital cannot be associated with the plain marble drum because of its size and the flutes on the necking.
- The semielliptical fanlight over the entrance door is framed by a wooden arch neatly carved with flutes and stylized flowers.
- It was yellowish-brown, and it collected in the flutes of the column.
- The inscriber removed two of the column's flutes, so that five hexameters of verse could be carved upon the marble.
- 2.1 A trumpet-shaped frill on a dress or other garment.
- I am absolutely the modern day version of a dame with flute skirts and heels.
- On this page look out for the dropped waist bodice, above knee skirt lengths that begin to hesitate and gain illusory length with the addition of flutes and frills.
- Whether it's flute hem, a-lines, or high-waisted pencils, we have the skirt for you.
- Flute skirts emphasise the waist.
- The skirt has seven gores, the seams being concealed by rolling flutes which result from plaits underfolded below the hips.
ruffle, flounce, ruff, furbelow, jabot, peplum, ruche, ruching, gather, tuck, fringe - 2.2 A cylindrical groove, as on pastry.
- Perez-Estaun described typical turbiditic sedimentary structures such as groove and flute casts and prod marks, as well as trace fossils in the pelites.
- If your fingertips can take heat, the flutes may be reshaped after about 3 minutes of baking.
- In addition, they show well-marked bottom-structures, which have not been described from modern deposits, such as groove and flute casts on their undersides.
- Press the pastry into flutes again with the fingers.
- Finish the edges as you like - I like to do flutes, but I warn you that high, dramatic flutes as pictured will droop in the oven, because lard crusts just are too soft for big flutes like that.
3A tall, narrow wine glass.
a flute of champagne- Not today, but sometime shortly, I will drink a flute of champagne to you Charlie and express the wish that you will be around for many more years to celebrate many more birthdays.
- Sparkling wines should be served in thick glasses with straight sides or flutes so that the fizz is preserved.
- His crystal champagne flute was smashed into several million pieces.
- Everything from plastic cups, empty beer bottles, used disposable coffee cups, to wine glasses and champagne flutes can be found at the exhibit.
- Now everyone's in a movie, or a TV show, drinking champagne out of long flutes on a Friday night.
- If you don't own cocktail glasses, champagne flutes are a good substitute.
- The champagne flute is tall and narrow to slow the loss of the CO2 bubbles, to keep it from going ‘flat’ for as long as possible.
- Bubbly was had with lunch in plastic champagne flutes.
- I began to take photographs of the food on the table, the champagne flutes towering behind the chocolate truffles that I was already dying to eat.
- Newlyweds can pick either a starter set of Wedgewood china or a crystal set of eight wine goblets and champagne flutes from Waterford, with a retail value of $440.
- Guests have been asked for eight sherry glasses, eight champagne flutes, eight whisky tumblers, eight brandy goblets and two decanters.
- Inside, waiters were seen serving guests with flutes of champagne, while deliveries of sushi and presents were taken through the main entrance.
- I picked up the champagne flutes, appreciating the finely cut crystal stems - they were so elegant.
- Her hand gently motions for David's still full flute.
- Amid the hairspray bottles and eye-shadow palettes littering the tables lay overturned plastic champagne flutes.
- We are soon surrounded by towels and vases and champagne flutes and all sorts of other gifts.
- Champagne is best served in a tall flute or tulip glasses.
- What normally happens is they fall to the floor by accident with their champagne flutes in their hands and remain down there, flopping around, chatting and laughing hysterically for quite a bit of time.
- Serve the champagne, preferably in flutes, filling each glass no more than halfway to allow the wine to breathe.
- The cupboards containing the champagne, bucket, and flutes have also been highlighted.
verbflo͞otflut
1with direct speech Speak in a melodious way reminiscent of the sound of a flute.
“What do you do?” she fluted- Her voice is particularly attractive: fluted and clear, kinder than the hard-edged Sloane of caricature and, most importantly, never sneering.
- There are no melodramatic trills or fluting crescendos in her everyday speech.
- In fluting, childish voices, they spoke of their compassion for the poor and homeless.
- We could clearly hear the high fluting voice of Toni, and the calmer, flatter tones of Sid.
- "They are doing so much more work, preventing so much more illness, and treating patients much better!" she fluted.
- 1.1literary no object Play, or seem to play, a flute or pipe.to him who sat upon the rocks, and fluted to the morning seawith object some swan fluting a wild carol
- When the corn began to grow the chief put up his altar, sang and fluted, but he did all that alone.
- When he reached the river's edge, he came to a sharp halt, but his fingers fluted on, the instrument still tuneful.
play on a pipe
2often as adjective flutedwith object Make flutes or grooves in.
fluted columns- Fluted columns supported the ceiling in two rows, like massive redwoods.
- You walk into the house on shiny wooden floors, topped by rounded skirtings and fluted ceiling with subtle, concealed lighting.
- A lovely wall of stone and brick layers and fluted coping stones, with yew above, brought us into the Roman town of Isurium, now Aldborough.
- These are supported by small round-arched and fluted flying buttresses topped by figurines of scroll-bearing prophets.
- The windows of this room-the most formal in the house-are framed at the sides and top by wood that has been fluted to resemble Greek columns.
- A glaze highlights detailing in the ginger-stained doors and fluted columns.
- The large diameter rolls were fluted to give traction to the feed, and provided with a quick acting-lever operated mechanism for raising or lowering the rolls.
- The smaller one is delicately fluted and covered in mosaic.
- In some places both fingers from the roof and the floor had joined and formed columns, some fluted, some smooth, which glowed peach or filigree rose when the torchlight fell upon them.
- The imposing entrance portico supported by six fluted Doric columns was probably the first exercise in classicism in Deadwood.
- Finally we were able to descend near to the seafloor, which was littered with fallen chimneys, each several feet in diameter and fluted like a column of a Greek temple.
- There were fluted columns on either side of the broad mahogany double-doors, and they were twined with ivy.
- The new space was panelled throughout, and fluted Corinthian columns and pilasters were added.
- Neoclassical commodes, desks, and some chairs had fluted tapered legs reminiscent of upside-down obelisks.
- In 1773-84 the whole church was remodelled in eighteenth - century taste, the columns of the choir were fluted, the apse and doors were finished in Louis XVI style.
- In all the caves they were surrounded by beautifully fluted and fretted columns whose pure white frosted surfaces shone out like beacons in the harsh magnesium light of their lanterns.
- "The rising white fluted columns supporting the two exquisite domes are special to that era, " he said.
- On a lightly floured surface, roll out the pastry to form a thin circle or rectangle, place it on a lightly greased baking sheet or tin, and lip or flute the edge.
- Runoff from countless storms has worn the 50-to 60-foot-tall pink sandstone walls smooth, fluting some of its sections.
- He began by adding a light Baroque facade with pilasters and massive fluted columns at the main, upper tier, topped by a balustrade with vases and statues.
grooved, channelled, furrowed, ribbed, corrugated, ridged- 2.1 Make trumpet-shaped frills on (a garment)a fluted collar
- Ruffle necklines are big too, as well as fluted sleeves, hem flounces and ruched side panels.
- The fantastic new knee-length fluted skirts, featured this season in flowing chiffon, look heavenly on women with good legs and waists.
- The small card at the foot of the mannequin told her that the skirt was made of duchess satin while the bodice was overlaid with soft cotton lace, and she could easily see the scalloped neckline and fluted sleeves.
- This theme of heightened elegance was carried over into the fall collection with the fluted jersey gown (this time in violet) leading the charge.
- Miranda's cream dress consisted of a strapless bodice with fluted skirt, suggestive of both a South Sea Islander and a nymph, not yet tainted by civilisation.
- Flared skirts with an organic feel that swept like an opening bell flower form, just like the art nouveau styling of La Belle Époque of 1900, vied with fluid trousers and fluted coats all emphasising a nipped in waist.
- It is matched with a cozy rhinestone-link mink vest with attached fluted sleeves.
Origin
Middle English: from Old French flahute, probably from Provençal flaüt, perhaps a blend of flaujol ‘flageolet’ + laüt ‘lute’.