| 单词 | flute |
| 释义 | flute (once / 813 pages) 1n 2n 3nv A flute is a thin woodwind instrument: you blow into it and put your fingers over the holes to make music. There are many types of instruments, such as percussion, brass, and woodwind. One of the most popular woodwind instruments is the flute, which is thin and makes high-pitched sounds. The flute looks like a type of thin tube or pipe with a hole on each end and holes on the body: your fingers go up and down over the holes and you blow into the flute to make music. A flute player is called a flautist. WORD FAMILYflute: flautist, fluted, flutes, fluting, flutist+/flautist: flautists/fluting: flutings/flutist: flutists USAGE EXAMPLESSure enough, we discover that our ancestors crafted one of the hapless bear’s bones into a flute, one of the oldest artifacts of human ingenuity. Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016) Mozart was working in a theater and writing songs for a company that was almost like a circus when he wrote “The Magic Flute.” New York Times(Dec 30, 2016) Massive Attack brought everyone down, then Patrick played African drums and guitar and then a flute and we all laid on yoga mats. The Guardian(Dec 26, 2016) 1 n a high-pitched woodwind instrument; a slender tube closed at one end with finger holes on one end and an opening near the closed end across which the breath is blown 2Syn|Hypo|Hyper transverse flute fife a small high-pitched flute similar to a piccolo; has a shrill tone and is used chiefly to accompany drums in a marching band nose flutea flute that is played by blowing through the nostrils (used in some Asian countries) piccoloa small flute; pitched an octave above the standard flute wood, woodwind, woodwind instrument any wind instrument other than the brass instruments n a tall narrow wineglass 3Syn|Hyper champagne flute, flute glass wineglass a glass that has a stem and in which wine is served 1n a groove or furrow in cloth etc (particularly a shallow concave groove on the shaft of a column) Syn|Hyper fluting channel, groove a long narrow furrow cut either by a natural process (such as erosion) or by a tool (as e.g. a groove in a phonograph record) 2v form flutes in Hyper crimp, pinch make ridges into by pinching together |
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