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flute

noun

  1. landform created by the movement of a glacier around a boulder
  2. musical instrument of the woodwind family
  3. glass used to drink wine, especially champagne
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verb

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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /flu(ː)t/

noun

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

  1. A kind of flyboat; a storeship.

verb

Etymology: From Middle English fleute, floute, flote, from Old French flaute, fleüte, from Old Provençal flaüt, of uncertain origin. Perhaps ultimately from three possibilities: * Blend of Provencal flaujol (“flageolet”) + laüt (“lute”) * From Latin flātus (“blowing”), from flāre (“to blow”) * Imitative. Doublet of flauta and fluyt.

  1. To play on a flute.
  2. To make a flutelike sound.

    The green turf was velvet underfoot. The blackbirds fluted in the hazels there.

  3. To utter with a flutelike sound.

    “Oh, there's my precious Poppet,” said Phyllis, as a distant barking reached the ears. “He's asking for his dinner, the sweet little angel. All right, darling, Mother's coming,” she fluted, and buzzed off on the errand of mercy.

  4. 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.).