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noun 
  1. (context, musical instruments) A woodwind instrument consisting of a metal, wood or bamboo tube with a row of circular holes and played by blowing across a hole in the side of one end or through a narrow channel at one end against a sharp edge, while covering none, some or all of the holes with the fingers to vary the note played.
  2. A glass with a long, narrow bowl and a long stem, used for drinking wine, especially champagne.
  3. A helical groove going up a drill bit which allows the drilled out material to come up out of the hole as it's drilled.
  4. (architecture) A semicylindrical vertical groove in a pillar.
Translations: 
  • Dutch: fluit
  • French: flí»te
  • German: Flí¶te , Querflí¶te
  • Italian: flauto
    (trans-mid)
  • Spanish: flauta
verb s]]
(flutes, fluting, fluted)
  1. To cut a semicylindrical vertical groove in a pillar.
Etymology: From flaute (French flíte).


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