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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024flute /flut/USA pronunciation n. [countable]- Music and Dancea wind instrument with a high range, made of a tube with fingerholes or keys.
- a groove.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024flute (flo̅o̅t),USA pronunciation n., v., flut•ed, flut•ing. n. - Music and Dancea musical wind instrument consisting of a tube with a series of fingerholes or keys, in which the wind is directed against a sharp edge, either directly, as in the modern transverse flute, or through a flue, as in the recorder.
- Music and Dancean organ stop with wide flue pipes, having a flutelike tone.
- Architecture, Architecture, Furniturea channel, groove, or furrow, as on the shaft of a column. See diag. under column.
- any groove or furrow, as in a ruffle of cloth or on a piecrust.
- one of the helical grooves of a twist drill.
- Ceramicsa slender, footed wineglass of the 17th century, having a tall, conical bowl.
- Ceramicsa similar stemmed glass, used esp. for champagne.
v.i. - to produce flutelike sounds.
- Music and Danceto play on a flute.
- (of a metal strip or sheet) to kink or break in bending.
v.t. - to utter in flutelike tones.
- to form longitudinal flutes or furrows in:to flute a piecrust.
- Vulgar Latin *flabeolum. See flageolet, lute
- Old Provencal flaüt (perh. alteration of flaujol, flauja)
- Middle French flaüte, flahute, fleüte
- Middle English floute 1350–1400
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