different between flute vs hollow

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)

1. (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.
2. (music, colloquial) A recorder, also a woodwind instrument.
3. A glass with a long, narrow bowl and a long stem, used for drinking wine, especially champagne.
4. 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
5. (architecture, firearms) A semicylindrical vertical groove, as in a pillar, in plaited cloth, or in a rifle barrel to cut down the weight.
6. A long French bread roll, baguette.
7. An organ stop with a flute-like sound.
8. 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)

1. (intransitive) To play on a flute.
2. (intransitive) To make a flutelike sound.
3. (transitive) To utter with a flutelike sound.
4. (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)

1. 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)

1. 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

1. inflection of fluten:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. 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)

1. flute (type of glass)

   Synonyms: flûte, fluttino

English

Alternative forms

• hallow
• holler (nonstandard: dialectal, especially Southern US)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?h?l.??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?h?.lo?/
  • (Southern American English, Appalachia) IPA^(key): /h?l?/
• Rhymes: -?l??

Etymology 1

From Middle English holow, holowe, holwe, holw?, holgh, from Old English holh (“a hollow”), from Proto-Germanic *halhwaz, from Proto-Indo-European *?el?wos. Cognate with Old High German huliwa and hulwa, Middle High German hülwe. Perhaps related to hole.

Noun

hollow (plural hollows)

1. A small valley between mountains.
   • c. 1710–20, Matthew Prior, The First Hymn Of Callimachus: To Jupiter

     Forests grew upon the barren hollows.
2. A sunken area or unfilled space in something solid; a cavity, natural or artificial.

3. (figuratively) A feeling of emptiness.

4. (US) A sunken area.

Translations

Verb

hollow (third-person singular simple present hollows, present participle hollowing, simple past and past participle hollowed)

1. (transitive) to make a hole in something; to excavate

Etymology 2

From Middle English holowe, holwe, holu?, holgh, from the noun (see above).

Adjective

hollow (comparative hollower, superlative hollowest)

1. (of something solid) Having an empty space or cavity inside.

   a hollow tree; a hollow sphere

2. (of a sound) Distant, eerie; echoing, reverberating, as if in a hollow space; dull, muffled; often low-pitched.
   • 1903, George Gordon Byron, On Leaving Newstead Abbey

     Through thy battlements, Newstead, the hollow winds whistle:

3. (figuratively) Without substance; having no real or significant worth; meaningless.

   a hollow victory

4. (figuratively) Insincere, devoid of validity; specious.

   a hollow promise

5. Concave; gaunt; sunken.
   • c. 1596-1599, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

     To view with hollow eye and wrinkled brow

6. (gymnastics) Pertaining to hollow body position

Derived terms

• hollow leg

Translations

Adverb

hollow (not comparable)

1. (colloquial) Completely, as part of the phrase beat hollow or beat all hollow.

Etymology 3

Compare holler.

Verb

hollow (third-person singular simple present hollows, present participle hollowing, simple past and past participle hollowed)

1. To call or urge by shouting; to hollo.
   • 1814. Sir Walter Scott, Waverley

     He has hollowed the hounds.

Interjection

hollow

1. Alternative form of hollo

References

• hollow in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.