Flute
/fluːt/
The meaning and definition of Flute, with examples, synonyms, and a word game to make it stick.
Definition
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.
- A recorder, also a woodwind instrument.
verb
- To utter with a flutelike sound.
- 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.).
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Synonyms
edge-blown aerophone Western concert flute
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