Definitions for the word "flute" from multiple English dictionaries.
1. v. i.
A musical wind instrument, consisting of a hollow cylinder or pipe, with holes along its length, stopped by the fingers or by keys which are opened by the fingers. The modern flute is closed at the upper end, and blown with the mouth at a lateral hole.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. v. i.
A channel of curved section; -- usually applied to one of a vertical series of such channels used to decorate columns and pilasters in classical architecture. See Illust. under Base, n.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. n.
A similar channel or groove made in wood or other material, esp. in plaited cloth, as in a lady's ruffle.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. n.
A long French breakfast roll.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. n.
A stop in an organ, having a flutelike sound.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. n.
A kind of flyboat; a storeship.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. v. i.
To play on, or as on, a flute; to make a flutelike sound.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
8. v. t.
To play, whistle, or sing with a clear, soft note, like that of a flute.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
9. v. t.
To form flutes or channels in, as in a column, a ruffle, etc.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
10. n.
1 a high-pitched woodwind instrument held sideways. B any similar wind instrument. 2 ornamental vertical groove in a column. v. (-ting) 1 play, or play (a tune etc.) On, the flute. 2 speak or sing etc. In a high voice. 3 make grooves in. fluting n. Fluty adj. (in sense 1a of n.). [french]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
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