flute

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1. flute - Noun

2. flute - Verb

Meaning

A musical wind instrument, consisting of a hollow cylinder or pipe, with holes along its length, stopped by the fingers or by keys which are opened by the fingers. The modern flute is closed at the upper end, and blown with the mouth at a lateral hole.

A channel of curved section; -- usually applied to one of a vertical series of such channels used to decorate columns and pilasters in classical architecture. See Illust. under Base, n.

A similar channel or groove made in wood or other material, esp. in plaited cloth, as in a lady's ruffle.

A long French breakfast roll.

A stop in an organ, having a flutelike sound.

A kind of flyboat; a storeship.

To play on, or as on, a flute; to make a flutelike sound.

To play, whistle, or sing with a clear, soft note, like that of a flute.

To form flutes or channels in, as in a column, a ruffle, etc.

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Now as the Paradisiacal pleasures of the Mahometans consist in playing upon the flute and lying with Houris, be mine to read eternal new romances of Marivaux and Crebillon. Thomas Gray

Teach him how you will, a pig will never play the flute. Robert Jordan

I had a number of very strong personalities in my family. My father was a concert flutist, the solo flute for Toscanini. Francis Ford Coppola

For me it's the instrument. If I want to think of a flute and the state of the arts I hear a vibrato; I don't know what a flute is unless the person plays it for me. Morton Feldman

When it sees money, the flute will play itself. Turkish Proverb

When you play the flute in zanzibar all africa dances. Zanzibar Proverb

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