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A side-blown flute (noun sense 1).

A recorder, sometimes also called a flute (noun sense 2).

Champagne in a classic flute (noun sense 3).

Baguettes or flutes (noun sense 6).

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

Doublet of flauta and fluyt.

flute (plural flutes)

  2. (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.

    • 2008 January 15, Jon Pareles, “To See (and Hear) the World in Five Hours: Unique Sounds Ripe for Import”, in The New York Times‎[1]:

      The group played huge drums placed overhead, along with flutes and a kotolike zither.

    • 2018, Robert Philip, The Classical Music Lover's Companion to Orchestral Music, Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 465:

      After another alternation of the two elements, there is a more playful episode, in which flute and bassoon take up the first element, with swooping glissando on the ondes Martenot.

  3. (colloquial) A recorder, also a woodwind instrument.
  4. 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.

  5. 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
  6. (architecture, firearms) A semicylindrical vertical groove, as in a pillar, in plaited cloth, or in a rifle barrel to cut down the weight.
  7. A long French bread roll, baguette.[1]
  8. An organ stop with a flute-like sound.
  9. A shuttle in weaving tapestry etc.

woodwind instrument

glass

helical groove going up a drill bit

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architecture: vertical groove in a pillar

  1. ^ 1858, Peter Lund Simmonds, The Dictionary of Trade Products
fluted pillars

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.

    • 1895, S. R. Crockett, A Cry Across the Black Water:

      The green turf was velvet underfoot. The blackbirds fluted in the hazels there.

  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.).

to make a flutelike sound

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

flute (plural flutes)

  1. A kind of flyboat; a storeship.

flute f (plural flutes)

  1. post-1990 spelling of flûte

flute

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

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

  • IPA(key): /ˈflut/
  • Rhymes: -ut
  • Hyphenation: flùte

flute m (invariable)

  1. flute (type of glass)
    Synonyms: flûte, fluttino