Definition of "flute" []

• Music A high-pitched woodwind instrument consisting of a slender tube closed at one end with keys and finger holes on the side and an opening near the closed end across which the breath is blown. Also called transverse flute. (noun)
• Music Any of various similar reedless woodwind instruments, such as the recorder. (noun)
• Music An organ stop whose flue pipe produces a flutelike tone. (noun)
• Architecture A long, usually rounded groove incised as a decorative motif on the shaft of a column, for example. (noun)
• A similar groove or furrow, as in a pleated ruffle of cloth or on a piece of furniture. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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• "Bergotte is what I call a flute-player: one must admit that he plays on it very agreeably, although with a great deal of mannerism, of affectation."
• "The hardest thing I have found with a flute is getting that first sound out of it perfectly."