"Flute" is a word in ENGLISH
A long French breakfast roll.
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 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 similar channel or groove made in wood or other material,
esp. in plaited cloth, as in a lady's ruffle.
A stop in an organ, having a flutelike sound.
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.
A kind of flyboat; a storeship.
One must avoid snobbery and misanthropy. But one must also be unafraid to criticise those who reach for the lowest common denominator, and who sometimes succeed in finding it. This criticism would be effortless if there were no "people" waiting for just such an appeal. Any fool can lampoon a king or a bishop or a billionaire. A trifle more grit is required to face down a mob, or even a studio audience that has decided it knows what it wants and is entitled to get it. And the fact that kings and bishops and billionaires often have more say than most in forming appetites and emotions of the crowd is not irrelevant, either.
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The sharp edge or salient angle formed by two surfaces meeting each other, whether plane or curved; -- applied particularly …
Read the complete definitionOf or pertaining to a pipe (flute) or piper.
Read the complete definitionbagákay n k. o. thin bamboo with long internodes in yellow and green varieties, used for baskets, flutes, etc. : …
Read the complete definitionA wind instrument of the double reed kind, furnished with holes, which are stopped by the fingers, and by keys, …
Read the complete definitionThe decoration of a fluted shaft of a column or of a pilaster with reeds, or rounded moldings, which seem …
Read the complete definitionTo cut a furrow in, as in a column; to groove; to channel; to flute.
Read the complete definitionA gutter; a groove, as in a fluted column.
Read the complete definitionThe flute or finger pipe in a bagpipe. See Bagpipe.
Read the complete definitionThe flute of a bagpipe. See Chanter, n., 3.
Read the complete definitionA West Indian wood, used for making flutes and other musical instruments.
Read the complete definitionA pair of fluted rolls for grinding caoutchouc.
Read the complete definitionA kind of lyric poetry in honor of Bacchus, usually sung by a band of revelers to a flute accompaniment; …
Read the complete definitionA peculiar action of the tongue by flute players in articulating staccato notes; also, the rapid repetition of notes in …
Read the complete definitionThe shaping of the lips to the mouthpiece; as, a flute player has a good embouchure.
Read the complete definitionThe narrow plane surface between flutings of a column.
Read the complete definitionA small shrill pipe, resembling the piccolo flute, used chiefly to accompany the drum in military music.
Read the complete definitionA narrow flat member; especially, a flat molding separating other moldings; a reglet; also, the space between two flutings in …
Read the complete definitionA small wooden pipe, having six or more holes, and a mouthpiece inserted at one end. It produces a shrill …
Read the complete definitionA player on the flute; a flutist.
Read the complete definitionA flute.
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