Definitions for fluting

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fluting flut·ing

Spelling: [floo-ting]

IPA: /ˈflu tɪŋ/

Fluting is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 128 anagrams from letters in fluting (fgilntu).

Definitions for fluting

noun

1. something having ornamental grooves, as a Greek column.
2. a groove, furrow, or flute, or a series of these.
3. 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.
4. an organ stop with wide flue pipes, having a flutelike tone.
5. Architecture, Furniture. a channel, groove, or furrow, as on the shaft of a column.
6. any groove or furrow, as in a ruffle of cloth or on a piecrust.
7. one of the helical grooves of a twist drill.
8. a slender, footed wineglass of the 17th century, having a tall, conical bowl.
9. 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 fluting

First recorded in 1475-85; flute + -ing¹

Examples for fluting

Sliding with the tide, he heard it fluting in the bosom of the hills.

The cupping is caused by not adding a sufficient number and the fluting by adding too many.

Alice smiled but went on fluting the edge of an apple pie with a fork.

Trumpeting and fluting rose early on the morn, as sign that they should ride.

The fluting does not look like its ornament, but its drapery.

I hear the fluting of the wind, and the tinkling of guitars.

Not for her the intricacies of starching and skillful ironing and fluting.

The fluting of the Doric column will thus be finished in the style appropriate to it.

From the green depths came the fluting of a lone wood-thrush.

The columns of the temple are unfinished, the fluting has never been done.