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English

Pronunciation

• enPR: floo?t, IPA^(key): /flu?t/
• Rhymes: -u?t

Etymology 1

From Middle English fleute, floute, flote, from Old French flaute, from Provençal flaut, of uncertain origin. Perhaps ultimately from three possibilities:

• Blend of Provencal flaujol (“flageolet”) + laut (“lute”)
• From Latin fl?tus (“blowing”), from fl?re (“to blow”)
• Imitative.

Doublet of flauta.

Noun

flute (plural flutes)

1. (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.
2. (music, colloquial) A recorder, also a woodwind instrument.
3. A glass with a long, narrow bowl and a long stem, used for drinking wine, especially champagne.
4. 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
5. (architecture, firearms) A semicylindrical vertical groove, as in a pillar, in plaited cloth, or in a rifle barrel to cut down the weight.
6. A long French bread roll, baguette.
7. An organ stop with a flute-like sound.
8. 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

Translations

See also

• bansuri

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)

1. (intransitive) To play on a flute.
2. (intransitive) To make a flutelike sound.
3. (transitive) To utter with a flutelike sound.
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 (adjective)

Translations

Etymology 2

Compare French flûte (“a transport”)?, Dutch fluit.

Noun

flute (plural flutes)

1. A kind of flyboat; a storeship.

Further reading

• flute on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Flute in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /flyt/

Noun

flute f (plural flutes)

1. Post-1990 spelling of flûte.

Further reading

• “flute” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

German

Verb

flute

1. inflection of fluten:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

Italian

Etymology

From flûte, from French flûte, from Old French fleüte, from Old Occitan flaut.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?flut/
• Hyphenation: flù?te

Noun

flute m (plural flute)

1. flute (type of glass)

   Synonyms: flûte, fluttino

English

Adjective

scoring (not comparable)

1. Of something or someone that scores.

   The highest scoring team will win the match.

Noun

scoring (plural scorings)

1. The process of keeping score in a sport or contest.

   The scoring of a tennis match is overseen by a single referee.

2. The process of winning points in a sport or contest.

   Scoring a basket in basketball is worth two or three points.

3. The action of scratching paper or other material to make it easier to fold.
4. A deep groove made by glacial action or similar.

Translations

Verb

scoring

1. present participle of score

Anagrams

• corings