fluted

3 definitions found

fluted - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Fluted \Flut"ed\, a.
     1. Thin; fine; clear and mellow; flutelike; as, fluted notes.
        --Busby.
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     2. Decorated with flutes; channeled; grooved; as, a fluted
        column; a fluted ruffle; a fluted spectrum.
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  Flute \Flute\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fluted; p. pr. & vb. n.
     Fluting.]
     1. To play, whistle, or sing with a clear, soft note, like
        that of a flute.
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              Knaves are men,
              That lute and flute fantastic tenderness.
                                                    --Tennyson.
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              The redwing flutes his o-ka-lee.      --Emerson.
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     2. To form flutes or channels in, as in a column, a ruffle,
        etc.
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fluted - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  51 Moby Thesaurus words for "fluted":
     canaliculate, canaliculated, chamfered, channeled, corduroy,
     corduroyed, corrugate, corrugated, costate, creased, crimped, cut,
     dadoed, dog-eared, doubled, engraved, flexible, flounced, foldable,
     folded, folding, furrowed, gashed, gathered, goffered, gouged,
     grooved, incised, plaited, pleated, pliable, plicate, plicated,
     plicatile, quilled, rabbeted, ribbed, rifled, ruffled, rutted,
     rutty, scored, scratched, slit, striated, sulcate, sulcated,
     troughed, tucked, twilled, wrinkled