Crossword-Solution: FLUTE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Flute | v. i. | 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. |
| Flute | v. i. | 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. |
| Flute | n. | A similar channel or groove made in wood or other material, esp. in plaited cloth, as in a lady's ruffle. |
| Flute | n. | A long French breakfast roll. |
| Flute | n. | A stop in an organ, having a flutelike sound. |
| Flute | n. | A kind of flyboat; a storeship. |
| Flute | v. i. | To play on, or as on, a flute; to make a flutelike sound. |
| Flute | v. t. | To play, whistle, or sing with a clear, soft note, like that of a flute. |
| Flute | v. t. | To form flutes or channels in, as in a column, a ruffle, etc. |
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Sentences with FLUTE (5)
Beside the provisions lay the flute, whose notes had lately been called forth by the lonely watcher to beguile a tedious hour.
The change of antennas and transmitting frequencies is made during the ten-minute interval between programmes, which always begin on the hour, preceded by the now familiar signature tune of a shepherd playing his flute with the tinkling of sheep-bells in the background, recorded in 1936, followed by the Greek National Anthem.
But what do you say to flute-makers and flute-players? Would you admit them into our State when you reflect that in this composite use of harmony the flute is worse than all the stringed instruments put together; even the panharmonic music is only an imitation of the flute? Clearly not.
Sometimes a-dropping from the sky I heard the sky-lark sing; Sometimes all little birds that are, How they seemed to fill the sea and air With their sweet jargoning! And now 'twas like all instruments, Now like a lonely flute; And now it is an angel's song, That makes the Heavens be mute.
One brought his flute and another his violin, while there were some who sang and a number who performed upon the piano with various degrees of taste and agility.
Quotes with FLUTE (3)
The amorous shepherd has lost his staff, And his sheep are straying on the hillside, And he didn’t even play the flute he brought to play because he was thinking so much. No one came to him or went away. He never found his staff again. Others, cursing at him, gathered his sheep for him. No one had loved him, in the end. When he got up from the hillside and the false truth, he saw everything: The great valleys full of the same green as always, The great distant mountains, more…
A craftsman pulled a reed from the reedbed, cut holes in it, and called it a human being. Since then, it's been wailing a tender agonyof parting, never mentioning the skillthat gave it life as a flute
the bouquet Between me and the worldyou are a bay, a sailthe faithful ends of a ropeyou are a fountain, a wind, a shrill childhood cry. Between me and the worldyou are a picture frame, a windowa field covered in wildflowersyou are a breath, a bed, a night that keeps the stars company. Between me and the world, you are a calendar, a compassa ray of light that slips through the gloomyou are a biographical sketch, a book marka preface that comes at the end. between me and the wo…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 116 times in crossword archives (1947–2024).