flute

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 Derived terms 1.3.2 Related terms 1.3.3 Translations 1.3.4 See also 1.4 Verb 1.4.1 Related terms 2 French 2.1 Noun

[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

From Old French flaute

[edit] Pronunciation

• enPR: floo͞t, IPA: /fluːt/, SAMPA: /flu:t/
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• Rhymes: -uːt

[edit] Noun

flute (plural flutes)

1. (music) A woodwind instrument consisting of a metal, wood or bamboo tube with a row of circular holes and played by blowing across a hole in the side of one end or through a narrow channel at one end against a sharp edge, while covering none, some or all of the holes with the fingers to vary the note played.
2. A glass with a long, narrow bowl and a long stem, used for drinking wine, especially champagne.
3. A helical groove going up a drill bit which allows the drilled out material to come up out of the hole as it's drilled.
4. (architecture) A semicylindrical vertical groove in a pillar.

[edit] Derived terms

• pan flute

[edit] Related terms

• flageolet

[edit] Translations

[edit] See also

• bansuri
• Flute on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Flute in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.

[edit] Verb

to flute (third-person singular simple present flutes, present participle fluting, simple past and past participle fluted)

1. To cut a semicylindrical vertical groove in a pillar.

[edit] Related terms

• champagne flute
• flautist
• fluted a

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[edit] French

[edit] Noun

flute

1. Alternative spelling of flûte.