flute

== English == === Pronunciation === enPR: flo͞ot, IPA(key): /fluːt/ Rhymes: -uːt === Etymology 1 === 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. Doublet of flauta and fluyt. ==== Noun ==== 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. (colloquial) A recorder, also a woodwind instrument. A glass with a long, narrow bowl and a long stem, used for drinking wine, especially champagne. 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. An organ stop with a flute-like sound. A shuttle in weaving tapestry etc. ===== Synonyms ===== (as a specific instrument, a transverse, side-blown flute): Western concert flute (as a general category of musical instruments): edge-blown aerophone ===== Meronyms ===== (music): fipple, labium ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Related terms ===== flageolet flute-douce ===== Descendants ===== → Irish: fliúit → Welsh: ffliwt ===== Translations ===== ===== References ===== 1999. How to Love Your Flute: A Guide to Flutes and Flute Playing. Mark Shepard. Pg. 6. ==== Verb ==== 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. (transitive) To utter with a flutelike sound. (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 ===== flute around champagne flute flautist fluted (adjective) ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 2 === Compare French flûte (“a transport”)?, Dutch fluit. ==== Noun ==== flute (plural flutes) A kind of flyboat; a storeship. === Further reading === 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. William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “flute”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →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 (2001–2026), “flute”, in Online Etymology Dictionary. == French == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /flyt/ === Noun === flute f (plural flutes) post-1990 spelling of flûte === Further reading === “flute”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012 == German == === Verb === flute inflection of fluten: first-person singular present first/third-person singular subjunctive I singular imperative == Italian == === Etymology === From flûte, from French flûte, from Old French fleüte, from Old Occitan flaut. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈflut/ Rhymes: -ut Hyphenation: flùte === Noun === flute m (invariable) flute (type of glass) Synonyms: flûte, fluttino