different between rut vs flute

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??t/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old French rut (“noise, roar, bellowing”), from Latin rug?tus, from rug?re (“to roar”).

Noun

rut (plural ruts)

1. (zoology) Sexual desire or oestrus of cattle, and various other mammals. [from early 15th c.]
2. The noise made by deer during sexual excitement.
3. Roaring, as of waves breaking upon the shore; rote.

Translations

Verb

rut (third-person singular simple present ruts, present participle rutting, simple past and past participle rutted)

1. (intransitive) To be in the annual rut or mating season.
2. (intransitive) To have sexual intercourse.
3. (transitive, rare) To have sexual intercourse with.
   • What piety forbids the lusty ram
     Or more salacious goat to rut their dam

Synonyms

• (be in mating season): blissom, brim, bull, oestruate
• (have sexual intercourse): do it, get some, have sex; see also Thesaurus:copulate
• (have sexual intercourse with): coitize, go to bed with, sleep with; see also Thesaurus:copulate with

Translations

Etymology 2

Probably from Middle English route, from Middle French route (“road”), from Old French route. See also rutter.

Noun

rut (plural ruts)

1. A furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground, as from the passage of many wheels along a road. [from 16th c.]

   Synonyms: groove, furrow

2. (figuratively) A fixed routine, procedure, line of conduct, thought or feeling. [from 19th c.]

   Synonym: routine

3. (figuratively) A dull routine.

Translations

Verb

rut (third-person singular simple present ruts, present participle rutting, simple past and past participle rutted)

1. (transitive) To make a furrow.

Translations

Further reading

• Rut on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• RTU, URT, UTR, tur

Central Franconian

Alternative forms

• rot (southern Moselle Franconian and Siegerland)

Etymology

From Old High German r?t.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?u?t/

Adjective

rut (masculine rude or ruhe, feminine rut or ruh, comparative ruder or ruher, superlative et rutste)

1. (Ripuarian, northern Moselle Franconian) red

Usage notes

• The inflections with loss of -d- are restricted to westernmost Ripuarian.

French

Etymology

From Old French rut, ruit, inherited from Latin rug?tus. Doublet of rugi, past participle of rugir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?yt/

Noun

rut m (plural ruts)

1. rut (sexual excitement)

Derived terms

• en rut

Further reading

• “rut” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Hungarian

Alternative forms

• rút

Etymology

An onomatopoeia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?rut]
• Hyphenation: rut
• Rhymes: -ut

Interjection

rut

1. gobble (representation of the sound of a turkey; can be used repetitively)

Vilamovian

Etymology

From Middle High German r?t (“red, red-haired”), from Old High German r?t (“red, scarlet, purple-red, brown-red, yellow-red”), from Proto-West Germanic *raud, from Proto-Germanic *raudaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h?rewd?-.

Akin to German rot, Old Saxon r?d, Old Dutch r?d (modern Dutch rood)

Adjective

r?t

1. red

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