"flute" in the noun sense

1. flute, transverse flute

a high-pitched woodwind instrument a slender tube closed at one end with finger holes on one end and an opening near the closed end across which the breath is blown

2. flute, flute glass, champagne flute

a tall narrow wineglass

3. flute, fluting

a groove or furrow in cloth etc (particularly a shallow concave groove on the shaft of a column)

"flute" in the verb sense

1. flute

form flutes in

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Not the rich viol, trump, cymbal, nor horn.
Guitar, nor cittern, nor the pining flute.
Are half so sweet as tender human words.[ Barry Cornwall ]

But the soul is not the body and the breath is not the flute;
Both together make the music, either marred and all is mute.[ Robert Browning ]

To blow is not to play the flute; you must move the fingers as well.[ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

A flute lay side by side with Frederick the Great's baton of command.[ Jean Paul ]

To blow on the flute is not to play on it; you must move the fingers as well.[ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

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The Scrabble® letter score of flute is 8.

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The Words With Friends™ letter score of flute is 10.

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