flute
Appearance
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]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.
Noun
[edit]flute (plural flutes)
- (music) A woodwind instrument consisting of a tube with a row of holes that produce sound through vibrations caused by air blown across the edge of the holes, often tuned by plugging one or more holes with a finger; the Western concert flute, a transverse side-blown flute of European origin.
- 1709, Alexander Pope, “January and May; or, The Merchant’s Tale, from Chaucer”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot, […], published 1717, →OCLC, page 217:
- The breathing flute's ſoft notes are heard around, / And the ſhril trumpets mix their ſilver ſound; / The vaulted roofs vvith echoing muſic ring, / Theſe touch the vocal ſtops, and thoſe the trembling ſtring.
- (colloquial) A recorder, also a woodwind instrument.
- A glass with a long, narrow bowl and a long stem, used for drinking wine, especially champagne.
- 2018, Sally Rooney, “Six Months Later (July 2013)”, in Normal People:
- These are champagne glasses, says Peggy.
No, I mean the tall ones, Jamie says.
You're thinking of flutes, says Peggy. These are coupes.
- A lengthwise groove, such as one of the lengthwise grooves on a classical column, or a groove on a cutting tool (such as a drill bit, endmill, or reamer), which helps to form both a cutting edge and a channel through which chips can escape.
- Coordinate term: (cutter feature) tooth
- (architecture, firearms) A semicylindrical vertical groove, as in a pillar, in plaited cloth, or in a rifle barrel to cut down the weight.
- A long French bread roll, baguette.[1]
- An organ stop with a flute-like sound.
- A shuttle in weaving tapestry etc.
Synonyms
[edit]- (as a specific instrument, a transverse, side-blown flute): Western concert flute
- (as a general category of musical instruments): edge-blown aerophone
Meronyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]- alto flute
- block flute
- chimney flute
- chimney flute
- devil's flute
- Divje Babe flute
- duct flute
- en flute
- English flute
- eunuch flute
- flute-player
- flute stop
- German flute
- hyperbass flute
- Irish flute
- Native American flute
- nose flute
- octave flute
- onion flute
- pan flute
- shepherd's flute
- skin flute
- transverse flute
- vertical flute
- vessel flute
- Western concert flute
- whistle and flute
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]Translations
[edit]woodwind instrument
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glass
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helical groove going up a drill bit
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architecture: vertical groove in a pillar
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References
[edit]- ^ 1858, Peter Lund Simmonds, The Dictionary of Trade Products
- 1999. How to Love Your Flute: A Guide to Flutes and Flute Playing. Mark Shepard. Pg. 6.
Verb
[edit]flute (third-person singular simple present flutes, present participle fluting, simple past and past participle fluted)
- (intransitive) To play on a flute.
- (intransitive) To make a flutelike sound.
- 1895, S. R. Crockett, A Cry Across the Black Water:
- The green turf was velvet underfoot. The blackbirds fluted in the hazels there.
- (transitive) To utter with a flutelike sound.
- 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XIII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
- “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.
- (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
[edit]- flute around
- champagne flute
- flautist
- fluted (adjective)
Translations
[edit]to play flute
to make a flutelike sound
to utter with flutelike sound
to form flutes
Etymology 2
[edit]Compare French flûte (“a transport”)?, Dutch fluit.
Noun
[edit]flute (plural flutes)
Further reading
[edit]- flute on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Flute in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
- “flute”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
- “flute”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- “flute”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC, page 2290.
- “flute”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- “flute”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “flute”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “flute”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “flute”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]flute f (plural flutes)
Further reading
[edit]- “flute”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
German
[edit]Verb
[edit]flute
- inflection of fluten:
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From flûte, from French flûte, from Old French fleüte, from Old Occitan flaut.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]flute m (invariable)
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