flute

Signification (Anglais)

Noun

1. A woodwind instrument consisting of a tube with a row of holes that produce sound through vibrations caused by air blown across the edge of the holes, often tuned by plugging one or more holes with a finger; the Western concert flute, a transverse side-blown flute of European origin.
2. (colloquial) A recorder, also a woodwind instrument.
3. A glass with a long, narrow bowl and a long stem, used for drinking wine, especially champagne.
4. A lengthwise groove, such as one of the lengthwise grooves on a classical column, or a groove on a cutting tool (such as a drill bit, endmill, or reamer), which helps to form both a cutting edge and a channel through which chips can escape.
5. A semicylindrical vertical groove, as in a pillar, in plaited cloth, or in a rifle barrel to cut down the weight.
6. A long French bread roll, baguette.
7. An organ stop with a flute-like sound.
8. A shuttle in weaving tapestry etc.

Verb

1. (intransitive) To play on a flute.
2. (intransitive) To make a flutelike sound.
3. (transitive) To utter with a flutelike sound.
4. (transitive) To form flutes or channels in (as in a column, a ruffle, etc.); to cut a semicylindrical vertical groove in (as in a pillar, etc.).

Concepts

flûte

🪈

flute

sillon

flûte traversière

rainure

sifflet

pipeau

bois musique

bois

🪵

instrument à vent en bois

canneler

cannelure

hautbois

Synonymes

pipe

fife

groove

whistle

piccolo

flute glass

champagne flute

woodwind

transverse flute

oboe

fluting

sulcus

chase

indent

clarinet

slot

reed

reed flute

riffle

gutter

launder

ocarina

orchestra

philharmonic orchestra

plica

plication

rabbet

rebate

recess

recorder

rut

scratch

socket

streak

streamer

stria

striation

stripe

tank

telescope

🔭

chip at

vessel

wale

wheal

wind instrument

clarionet

long thin loaf

reed pipe

tall champagne glass

ruga

Traductions

Flöte

🪈

flauta

🪈

flauto

🪈

fluit

flauta

🪈

flauta

🪈

φλάουτο

bilûr

🪈

ney

fîq

🪈

bilûl

نّاي

φλογέρα

tībia

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/fluːt/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: fleute

Appartenant à français: flûte

Appartenant à néerlandais: fluit

In summary

From Middle English fleute, floute, flote, from Old French flaute, fleüte, from Old Provençal flaüt, of uncertain origin. Perhaps ultimately from three possibilities:
* Blend of Provencal flaujol (“flageolet”) + laüt (“lute”)
* From Latin flātus (“blowing”), from flāre (“to blow”)
* Imitative.
Doublet of flauta and fluyt.