Definitions for fluted

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fluted flut·ed

Spelling: [floo-tid]

IPA: /ˈflu tɪd/

Fluted is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 85 anagrams from letters in fluted (defltu).

Definitions for fluted

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.

adjective

1. fine, clear, and mellow; flutelike:
2. having flutes, grooves, or the like:

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 fluted

First recorded in 1605-15; flute + -ed³

Examples for fluted

His waistcoat was low, and from it protruded the front of a fluted shirt.

Sweet the piping of him who sat upon the rocks and fluted to the morning sea.

Cones they looked like, rather, with rounded tops and fluted walls.

Roll out the pastry, and stamp it into rounds with a fluted cutter.

In her fluted voice, with her agreeable smile, Mrs. Austen greeted him.

With regard to the fluted pillars in the portico, my dears—'

Is it any wonder, then, that the fluted scales soon began to disappear?

The front is richly carved, and ornamented by fluted pillars.

Press the pastry into the bottom and sides of a fluted 9-inch tart pan with a removeable base.

Tisci experimented with layering, mixing sheer, knee-length slips with fluted mini-skirts and cropped jackets.