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flute
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: floo?t, IPA(key): /flu?t/
- Rhymes: -u?t
Etymology 1
From Middle English fleute, floute, flote, from Old French flaute, from Provençal flaut, of uncertain origin. Perhaps ultimately from three possibilities:
- Blend of Provencal flaujol (“flageolet”) + laut (“lute”)
- From Latin fl?tus (“blowing”), from fl?re (“to blow”)
- Imitative.
Doublet of flauta.
Noun
flute (plural flutes)
- (music) A woodwind instrument consisting of a tube with a row of holes that produce sound through vibrations caused by air blown across the edge of the holes, often tuned by plugging one or more holes with a finger; the Western concert flute, a transverse side-blown flute of European origin.
- (music, colloquial) A recorder, also a woodwind instrument.
- A glass with a long, narrow bowl and a long stem, used for drinking wine, especially champagne.
- A lengthwise groove, such as one of the lengthwise grooves on a classical column, or a groove on a cutting tool (such as a drill bit, endmill, or reamer), which helps to form both a cutting edge and a channel through which chips can escape
- (architecture, firearms) A semicylindrical vertical groove, as in a pillar, in plaited cloth, or in a rifle barrel to cut down the weight.
- A long French bread roll, baguette.
- An organ stop with a flute-like sound.
- A shuttle in weaving tapestry etc.
Synonyms
- (as a specific instrument, a transverse, side-blown flute): Western concert flute
- (as a general category of musical instruments): edge-blown aerophone
Meronyms
- (music): fipple, labium
Derived terms
Related terms
- flageolet
Translations
See also
- bansuri
References
- 1999. How to Love Your Flute: A Guide to Flutes and Flute Playing. Mark Shepard. Pg. 6.
Verb
flute (third-person singular simple present flutes, present participle fluting, simple past and past participle fluted)
- (intransitive) To play on a flute.
- (intransitive) To make a flutelike sound.
- (transitive) To utter with a flutelike sound.
- (transitive) To form flutes or channels in (as in a column, a ruffle, etc.); to cut a semicylindrical vertical groove in (as in a pillar, etc.).
Related terms
- champagne flute
- flautist
- fluted (adjective)
Translations
Etymology 2
Compare French flûte (“a transport”)?, Dutch fluit.
Noun
flute (plural flutes)
- A kind of flyboat; a storeship.
Further reading
- flute on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Flute in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /flyt/
Noun
flute f (plural flutes)
- Post-1990 spelling of flûte.
Further reading
- “flute” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
German
Verb
flute
- inflection of fluten:
- first-person singular present
- first/third-person singular subjunctive I
- singular imperative
Italian
Etymology
From flûte, from French flûte, from Old French fleüte, from Old Occitan flaut.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?flut/
- Hyphenation: flù?te
Noun
flute m (plural flute)
- flute (type of glass)
- Synonyms: flûte, fluttino
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chaunter
English
Etymology
Variant of chanter.
Noun
chaunter (plural chaunters)
- (Britain, slang, obsolete) A street seller of ballads and other broadsides.
- (colloquial) A deceitful, tricky dealer or horse jockey.
- He was a horse chaunter; he's a leg now.
- The chanter or flute of a bagpipe.
Middle English
Noun
chaunter
- Alternative form of chauntour (“chanter”)
Old French
Verb
chaunter
- (late Anglo-Norman) Alternative spelling of chanter
Conjugation
This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-ts, *-tt are modified to z, t. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.
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