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lute

lute is a 4-letter English word with 9 senses as noun, transitive verb, and intransitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A cement of clay or other tenacious infusible substance for sealing joints in apparatus, or the mouths of vessels or tubes, or for coating the bodies of retorts, etc., when exposed to heat; -- called also luting. Face value is 4 in Scrabble and 6 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 4 · Words With Friends 6 · 9 senses

Definitions

  1. 1noun

    A cement of clay or other tenacious infusible substance for sealing joints in apparatus, or the mouths of vessels or tubes, or for coating the bodies of retorts, etc., when exposed to heat; -- called also luting.

  2. 2noun

    A packing ring, as of rubber, for fruit jars, etc.

  3. 3noun

    A straight-edged piece of wood for striking off superfluous clay from mold.

  4. 4transitive verb

    To close or seal with lute; as, to lute on the cover of a crucible; to lute a joint.

  5. 5noun

    A stringed instrument formerly much in use. It consists of four parts, namely, the table or front, the body, having nine or ten ribs or "sides," arranged like the divisions of a melon, the neck, which has nine or ten frets or divisions, and the head, or cross, in which the screws for tuning are inserted. The strings are struck with the right hand, and with the left the stops are pressed.

  6. 6intransitive verb

    To sound, as a lute. Piers Plowman. Keats.

  7. 7transitive verb

    To play on a lute, or as on a lute.

  8. 8noun

    chordophone consisting of a plucked instrument having a pear-shaped body, a usually bent neck, and a fretted fingerboard

  9. 9noun

    a substance for packing a joint or coating a porous surface to make it impervious to gas or liquid

    Synonyms

    luting

Synonyms

luting

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in lute:

tule

Common word forms

lutedluterlutesluteallutingluteous

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