Synonyms for flute
| Grammar : Noun, verb |
| Spell : floot |
| Phonetic Transcription : flut |
Top 10 synonyms for flute Other synonyms for the word flute
- depression
- ditch
- fife
- flounce
- flute
- fluting
- fold
- furrow
- gather
- gouge
- gutter
- hollow
- incision
- interweave
- kilt
- knit
- notch
- pigtail
- pipe
- plait
- plat
- pleach
- pleat
- pucker
- rabbet
- ruche
- ruffle
- rut
- scallop
- score
- scratch
- shriek
- signal
- skirl
- slit
- sound
- toot
- tootle
- tress
- trill
- tuck
- twine
- valley
- warble
- weave
- wheeze
- whine
- whiz
Définition of flute
Origin :- early 14c., from Old French flaute (12c.), from Old Provençal flaut, of uncertain origin, perhaps imitative or from Latin flare "to blow;" perhaps influenced by Provençal laut "lute." The other Germanic words (cf. German flöte) are likewise borrowings from French.
- Ancient flutes were blown through a mouthpiece, like a recorder; the modern transverse or German flute developed 18c. The older style then sometimes were called flûte-a-bec (French, literally "flute with a beak"). The modern design and key system of the concert flute were perfected 1834 by Theobald Boehm. The architectural sense of "furrow in a pillar" (1650s) is from fancied resemblance to the inside of a flute split down the middle. Meaning "tall, slender wine glass" is from 1640s.
- As in pleat : noun fold
- As in groove : noun channel, indentation
- As in whistle : verb make sharp, shrill sound
- As in plait : verb braid
- Her lover played upon his flute, while she leaned against a tree and listened.
- Extract from : « Philothea » by Lydia Maria Child
- As soon as he was gone, I sent for Joe Kelly to play on the flute to me.
- Extract from : « Tales And Novels, Volume 4 (of 10) » by Maria Edgeworth
- You must give us some music, my good Belinda, and make him accompany you with his flute.
- Extract from : « Tales And Novels, Volume 3 (of 10) » by Maria Edgeworth
- The ancient was sitting in the shade of the mulberry trees blowing the flute.
- Extract from : « The Chinese Fairy Book » by Various
- It had eight stops, one imitating the lute and one the flute.
- Extract from : « How the Piano Came to Be » by Ellye Howell Glover
- For Socrates produces the same effect with the voice which Marsyas did with the flute.
- Extract from : « Symposium » by Plato
- Why, when the flute is talking, we are as silent as the grave.
- Extract from : « The Symposium » by Xenophon
- He did not like to be disturbed at the hour when he was playing the flute.
- Extract from : « A Set of Six » by Joseph Conrad
- I have enough Will for two, and she would be the flute in the hands of the artist.
- Extract from : « Dreamers of the Ghetto » by I. Zangwill
- And any time you're lonely, come up, and I'll play the flute to you.
- Extract from : « A Bit O' Love (Fourth Series Plays) » by John Galsworthy
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