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fluting

/floo-ting/US // ˈflu tɪŋ //UK // (ˈfluːtɪŋ) //

凹槽,笛子,凹凸不平,笛声

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : something having ornamental grooves, as a Greek column.
    • : a groove, furrow, or flute, or a series of these.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as inchannel
Forms: flutings

Examples

  • This was no high-pitched fluting from aliens deprived of their sport, but a hissing nightmare cry.

  • As he moved, a bit of gilt fluting dipped forward out of the gloom of the chimney-corner.

  • The fluting of the Doric column will thus be finished in the style appropriate to it.

  • Even Emmie's faint fluting came out more effectively, and Val could easier have wept than gone on singing.

  • It shot forth from the central fluting of a column that supported the pediment of the bookcase.