flute
noun
- landform created by the movement of a glacier around a boulder
- musical instrument of the woodwind family
- glass used to drink wine, especially champagne
verb
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Pronunciation: /flu(ː)t/
noun
Etymology: Compare French flûte (“a transport”)?, Dutch fluit.
- 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.
- To play on a flute.
- To make a flutelike sound.
“The green turf was velvet underfoot. The blackbirds fluted in the hazels there.”
- 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.”
- 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.).