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Definitions for Flute

[1] a musical wind instrument consisting of a tube with a series of fingerholes or keys, in which the wind is directed against a sharp edge, either directly, as in the modern transverse flute, or through a flue, as in the recorder.
[2] an organ stop with wide flue pipes, having a flutelike tone.
[3] Architecture , Furniture . a channel, groove, or furrow, as on the shaft of a column.
[4] any groove or furrow, as in a ruffle of cloth or on a piecrust.
[5] one of the helical grooves of a twist drill.
[6] a slender, footed wineglass of the 17th century, having a tall, conical bowl.
[7] a similar stemmed glass, used especially for champagne.
[8] to produce flutelike sounds.
[9] to play on a flute.
[10] (of a metal strip or sheet) to kink or break in bending.
[11] to utter in flutelike tones.
[12] to form longitudinal flutes or furrows in: to flute a piecrust.
[13] a wind instrument consisting of an open cylindrical tube of wood or metal having holes in the side stopped either by the fingers or by pads controlled by keys. The breath is directed across a mouth hole cut in the side, causing the air in the tube to vibrate. Range: about three octaves upwards from middle C
[14] any pipe blown directly on the principle of a flue pipe, either by means of a mouth hole or through a fipple
[15] architect a rounded shallow concave groove on the shaft of a column, pilaster, etc
[16] a groove or furrow in cloth, etc
[17] a tall narrow wineglass
[18] anything shaped like a flute
[19] to produce or utter (sounds) in the manner or tone of a flute
[20] (tr) to make grooves or furrows in

Words related to Flute

trench, blare, hiss, gather, ruffle, tuck, crease, plait, crimp, flounce, kilt, corrugation, scratch, hollow, slit, ditch, depression, canal, gouge, cut

Words nearby Flute

flushing, flushometer, flushwork, fluster, flustrated, flute, fluted, fluter, flutey, fluting, flutist

Origin of Flute

1350–1400; Middle English floute < Middle French flaüte, flahute, fleüte < Old Provençal flaüt (perhaps alteration of flaujol, flauja ) < Vulgar Latin *flabeolum. See flageolet, lute1

Other words from Flute

flute·like , adjective

Word origin for Flute

C14: from Old French flahute , via Old Provençal, from Vulgar Latin flabeolum (unattested); perhaps also influenced by Old Provençal laut lute; see flageolet

Synonyms for Flute

crease, crimp, flounce, gather, kilt, plait, ruffle, tuck, ruche