flute

See also flûte

English

Etymology

From Old French fleüte

Pronunciation

• enPR: floo͞t, IPA: /fluːt/, SAMPA: /flu:t/

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• Rhymes: -uːt

Noun

flute (woodwind instrument)

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.

Derived terms

• pan flute

Related terms

• flageolet

Translations

woodwind instrument

Arabic: ناي (nāy) Armenian: ֆլեյտա (hy) (fleyta) Basque: txirula (eu) Bosnian: frula f., flauta f. Catalan: flauta (ca) f. Chamicuro: ajtakli Chinese: 长笛 (cháng dí) Croatian: frula f., flauta f. Czech: flétna (cs) f. Danish: fløjte (da) c. Dutch: fluit (nl) Esperanto: fluto (eo) Finnish: huilu (fi) French: flûte (fr) f. Georgian: ფლეიტა (ka) (pleita) German: Flöte (de) f., Querflöte (de) f. Greek: φλάουτο (el) (fláouto) n. Hebrew: חָלִיל (he) (khalil) m. Hungarian: fuvola (hu) Irish: fliúit (ga) f. Italian: flauto (it) m. Japanese: フルート (ja) (furūto) Korean: 플루트 (peulluteu)

Kurdish: bilûr (ku) f., ney (ku) f., fîq (ku) f., bilûl (ku) f. Latin: tībia (la) f. Macedonian: флејта (mk) (fléjta) f. Malay: serunai (ms) Navajo: tsʼisǫ́ǫ́s Norwegian: fløyte (no) f. Old French: fleüte f. Oriya: ବଂଶୀ (or) Polish: flet (pl) m. Portuguese: flauta (pt) f. Romanian: flaut (ro) n. Russian: флейта (ru) (fléjta) f. Scottish Gaelic: cuisle-chiùil f., cuislean m. Serbian: Cyrillic: фрула f., флаута f. Roman: frula f., flauta f. Slovene: flavta (sl) f. Spanish: flauta (es) f. Swahili: digali (sw) Swedish: flöjt (sv) Telugu: వంశి (vamshi) Turkish: zurna (tr), sipsi (tr), flüt (tr), flavta (tr) Vietnamese: sáo (vi)

glass

Danish: fløjte (da) c. Finnish: samppanjalasi (fi)

Italian: flute (it)

See also

• bansuri

Verb

fluted pillars

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

1. (intransitive) To play on a flute.
2. (intransitive) To make a flutelike sound.
3. (transitive) To utter with a flutelike sound.
   • 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter XIII:

     “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. (transitive) 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.).

Related terms

• champagne flute
• flautist
• fluted a

Translations

to play flute

Finnish: soittaa huilua (fi)

to make a flutelike sound

to utter with flutelike sound

Finnish: huhuilla (fi)

to form flutes

Finnish: urittaa (fi)

External links

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

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French

Noun

flute f. (plural flutes)

1. Alternative spelling of flûte.