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flute

/floot/US // flut //UK // (fluːt) //

笛子,长笛,笛声,箫

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
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    • : a musical wind instrument consisting of a tube with a series of fingerholes or keys, in which the wind is directed against a sharp edge, either directly, as in the modern transverse flute, or through a flue, as in the recorder.
    • : an organ stop with wide flue pipes, having a flutelike tone.
    • : Architecture, Furniture. a channel, groove, or furrow, as on the shaft of a column.
    • : any groove or furrow, as in a ruffle of cloth or on a piecrust.
    • : one of the helical grooves of a twist drill.
    • : a slender, footed wineglass of the 17th century, having a tall, conical bowl.
    • : a similar stemmed glass, used especially for champagne.
v.无主动词 verb
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    flut·ed, flut·ing.

    • : to produce flutelike sounds.
    • : to play on a flute.
    • : to kink or break in bending.
v.有主动词 verb
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    flut·ed, flut·ing.

    • : to utter in flutelike tones.
    • : to form longitudinal flutes or furrows in: to flute a piecrust.

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Examples

  • Retrieving the flute had little to do with its monetary worth, he said.

  • Police picked up the flute from the pawnshop on Wednesday, Rabin said.

  • Meanwhile, Gabe Coconate, the owner of West Town Jewelry & Loan, told the Chicago Sun-Times he had already called police on Monday after his wife recognized the flute on a news report.

  • The flute is my livelihood and I’m trying every possible thing I can do to get it back.

  • A six-pack of 12-ounce cans works out to the equivalent of nine champagne flutes, which is great for a group.

  • If you drink from a flute, do so from a tulip-shape one to concentrate the notes, Simonetti-Bryan says.

  • By the time of the recording session, Brian had become quite agile with the flute and suggested adding it to the song.

  • Dodge was on his way to study the flute in Paris, but he decided to buy the bike, anyway.

  • Despite the sheer hilarity of the music itself, Detweiler claims that the flute drops are not an intentional joke.

  • At age 5, Desplat began to play the piano; his attention eventually turned to flute.

  • The flute and the psaltery make a sweet melody, but a pleasant tongue is above them both.

  • The flute, a component part of the organ, is one of the most ancient of musical instruments.

  • By blowing across this ring a fair but somewhat feeble Flute tone is produced.

  • The most admirable instruments of this characteristic have been variously compared to a flute or to the female voice.

  • We have worked this out for all classes of tone—string, flute and diapason—and the law holds good in every instance.