flute
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: flo͞ot
ipa: /fluːt/
rhymes: -uːt
Forms: form: flutes
Etymology: From Middle English fleute, floute, flote, from Old French flaute, fleüte, from Old Provençal flaüt, of uncertain origin. Perhaps ultimately from three possibilities:
* Blend of Provencal flaujol (“flageolet”) + laüt (“lute”)
* From Latin flātus (“blowing”), from flāre (“to blow”)
* Imitative.
Doublet of flauta and fluyt.
Senses: examples: text: 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.
ref: 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:
text: The group played huge drums placed overhead, along with flutes and a kotolike zither.
ref: 2008 January 15, Jon Pareles, “To See (and Hear) the World in Five Hours: Unique Sounds Ripe for Import”, in The New York Times:
text: 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.
ref: 2018, Robert Philip, The Classical Music Lover's Companion to Orchestral Music, Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 465:
topics: entertainment
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glosses: 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.
glosses: A recorder, also a woodwind instrument.
examples: text: These are champagne glasses, says Peggy.
No, I mean the tall ones, Jamie says.
You're thinking of flutes, says Peggy. These are coupes.
ref: 2018, Sally Rooney, “Six Months Later (July 2013)”, in Normal People:
glosses: A glass with a long, narrow bowl and a long stem, used for drinking wine, especially champagne.
coordinate_terms: tooth
glosses: 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.
topics: architecture
engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: A semicylindrical vertical groove, as in a pillar, in plaited cloth, or in a rifle barrel to cut down the weight.
glosses: A long French bread roll, baguette.
glosses: An organ stop with a flute-like sound.
glosses: A shuttle in weaving tapestry etc.
Synonyms: sense: as a specific instrument, a transverse, side-blown flute
word: Western concert flute
sense: as a general category of musical instruments
word: edge-blown aerophone
Meronyms: topics: music
entertainment
lifestyle
word: fipple
topics: music
entertainment
lifestyle
word: labium
Derived terms: alto flute
block flute
chimney flute
devil's flute
Divje Babe flute
duct flute
en flute
English flute
eunuch flute
fluted armour
fluteful
fluteless
flutemouth
flute-player
fluter
flute register
flute stop
flutework
flutey
flutist
flutophone
fluty
German flute
hyperbass flute
Irish flute
Native American flute
nose flute
octave flute
onion flute
pan flute
shepherd's flute
skin flute
transverse flute
vertical flute
vessel flute
Western concert flute
whistle and flute
Related terms: flageolet
flute-douce