Definitions for flutes

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flutes flute

Spelling: [floot]

IPA: /flut/

Flutes is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 91 anagrams from letters in flutes (eflstu).

Definitions for flutes

noun

1. a musical wind instrument consisting of a tube with a series of fingerholes or keys, in which the wind is directed against a sharp edge, either directly, as in the modern transverse flute, or through a flue, as in the recorder.
2. an organ stop with wide flue pipes, having a flutelike tone.
3. Architecture, Furniture. a channel, groove, or furrow, as on the shaft of a column.
4. any groove or furrow, as in a ruffle of cloth or on a piecrust.
5. one of the helical grooves of a twist drill.
6. a slender, footed wineglass of the 17th century, having a tall, conical bowl.
7. a similar stemmed glass, used especially for champagne.

verb (used with object)

1. to utter in flutelike tones.
2. to form longitudinal flutes or furrows in:

verb (used without object)

1. to produce flutelike sounds.
2. to play on a flute.
3. (of a metal strip or sheet) to kink or break in bending.

Origin of flutes

1350-1400; Middle English floute Middle French flaüte, flahute, fleüte Old Provençal flaüt (perhaps alteration of flaujol, flauja) Vulgar Latin *flabeolum. See flage

Examples for flutes

As soon as he was gone, I sent for Joe Kelly to play on the flute to me.

The ancient was sitting in the shade of the mulberry trees blowing the flute.

If you drink from a flute, do so from a tulip-shape one to concentrate the notes, Simonetti-Bryan says.

Her lover played upon his flute, while she leaned against a tree and listened.

It had eight stops, one imitating the lute and one the flute.

Dodge was on his way to study the flute in Paris, but he decided to buy the bike, anyway.

You must give us some music, my good Belinda, and make him accompany you with his flute.

By the time of the recording session, Brian had become quite agile with the flute and suggested adding it to the song.

Despite the sheer hilarity of the music itself, Detweiler claims that the flute drops are not an intentional joke.

At age 5, Desplat began to play the piano; his attention eventually turned to flute.