fluting

English

Two wooden dowels with lengthwise fluting.

Noun

fluting (plural flutings)

1. (architecture, sculpture) A decoration consisting of parallel, normally vertical, flutes (grooves) incised into the surface.
   • 1920, Frank Cousins, Phil M. Riley, The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia‎^[1], Boston: Little, Brown, and Company:

     Flutings also adorn the short architraves each side of the fanlight, and the abacus of the pilaster columns which is carried across a supplementary lintel in front of the lintel proper, the latter being several inches to the rear because of the deeply recessed arrangement of the door.

2. The act of making such grooves.
3. A flute-like sound.
4. (fashion) A fluted pleat; a small, rounded or pressed pleat used as trimming on a garment.
5. The erosional process by which a well-jointed coarse-grained rock, such as granite or gneiss, surface develops a set of flutes.

Translations

decoration

• Catalan: canaleta f
• Finnish: uritus (fi), kanneluuri (fi)
• German: Kannelierung f, Riffelung (de) f, Auskehlung f, Rille (de) f, Rüschen (de) pl or f, Rillen (de) pl or f
• Hungarian: kannelúra
• Irish: cuisliú m
• Russian: рифле́ние (ru) n (riflénije), гофриро́вка (ru) f (gofriróvka)

act

• Finnish: uritus (fi)
• German: Riffeln (de) n, Kannelieren n, Auskehlen n, Kräuseln n
• Swedish: räffling c

Adjective

fluting (not comparable)

1. Making a sound like a flute.

Verb

fluting

1. present participle and gerund of flute