1. a high-pitched woodwind instrument; a slender tube closed at one end with finger holes on one end and an opening near the closed end across which the breath is blown (Freq. 1) • Syn: transverse flute • Derivationally related forms: flutist, flautist • Hypernyms: woodwind, woodwind instrument, wood • Hyponyms: fife, nose flute, piccolo 2. a tall narrow wineglass • Syn: flute glass, champagne flute • Hypernyms: wineglass 3. a groove or furrow in cloth etc (particularly a shallow concave groove on the shaft of a column) • Syn: fluting • Derivationally related forms: flute (for: fluting) • Hypernyms: groove, channel
II - verb
form flutes in • Derivationally related forms: fluting • Hypernyms: crimp, pinch • Verb Frames: - Somebody ----s something
