Dictionary Entry
flute
flute is a 5-letter English word with 13 senses as intransitive verb, noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 10 · 13 senses
Definitions
- 1intransitive verb
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.
- 2intransitive verb
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.
- 3noun
A similar channel or groove made in wood or other material, esp. in plaited cloth, as in a lady's ruffle.
- 4noun
A long French breakfast roll.
- 5noun
A stop in an organ, having a flutelike sound.
- 6noun
A kind of flyboat; a storeship.
- 7intransitive verb
To play on, or as on, a flute; to make a flutelike sound.
- 8transitive verb
To play, whistle, or sing with a clear, soft note, like that of a flute.
- 9transitive verb
To form flutes or channels in, as in a column, a ruffle, etc.
- 10noun
a high-pitched woodwind instrument; a slender tube closed at one end with finger holes on one end and an opening near the closed end across which the breath is blown
- 11noun
a groove or furrow in cloth etc (particularly a shallow concave groove on the shaft of a column)
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- 12noun
a tall narrow wineglass
- 13verb
form flutes in
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