EGAVE

flute

About 2.76 uses per million words.

Meaning

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

Similar words

transverse flute champagne flute flute glass shakuhachi pipe piper recorder cuss damn horn

Often followed by

and in is player of or to was with

Word family

fluted flutelike fluter fluters flutes flutey flutier flutiest fluting fluty

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