Definition of Flute

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Definition of Flute

Flute

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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Flute Quotations

When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?
Kahlil Gibran

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

The soprano has all those other instruments in it. It's got the soprano song voice, flute, violin, clarinet, and tenor elements and can even approach the baritone in intensity.
Steve Lacy

It's just an ice bucket with a bottle in it. The two flute glasses are little tray. I got to shut the curtains. I'm in my boxer shorts and shirt. I'm going to take a bath and go to bed. But I want to shut the blinds so it's really dark in the room.
Danny DeVito

This big part flies off on the floor. The other part goes like this and lands in my foot! Standing up! It's standing in my foot! Right in the side of my foot. The flute glass. I think I'm like in one of my own pictures.
Danny DeVito

Everyone who plays the flute should learn singing.
James Galway

Then when I was in grammar school I played the clarinet, and then, after clarinet I played the flute in college orchestra - besides singing in the college chorus and things like that.
Bobby McFerrin

I have to report to those of you who think diamonds make a difference that I cannot tell what it is. Seriously, as you all know, they make no difference at all. They just make the flute look a little more special.
James Galway

Any professional knows that the flute and the piano is a boring combination. All you've got to arrive at is a kind of typical gestural crap, right? You might agree, though you wouldn't call it gestural crap.
Morton Feldman

I do not consider my self as having mastered the flute, but I get a real kick out of trying.
James Galway

Flute Translations

flute in Afrikaans is fluit
flute in Dutch is fluit
flute in Finnish is huilu
flute in Hungarian is furulya
flute in Italian is flauto
flute in Portuguese is flauta
flute in Spanish is flauta

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