(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.
(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.
(n.) A similar channel or groove made in wood or other material, esp. in plaited cloth, as in a lady's ruffle.
(n.) A long French breakfast roll.
(n.) A stop in an organ, having a flutelike sound.
(n.) A kind of flyboat; a storeship.
(v. i.) To play on, or as on, a flute; to make a flutelike sound.
(v. t.) To play, whistle, or sing with a clear, soft note, like that of a flute.
(v. t.) To form flutes or channels in, as in a column, a ruffle, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) The 12-fluted bur caused no clinically identifiable marks on the enamel surface.
(2) Sounds (flute and violin) and vowels (German "u" and "i") evoke a complex motion pattern on the basilar membrane.
(3) Acceptable finishing procedures for the composite materials tested include silicon carbide disks for accessible areas or 12 fluted finishing burs for more inaccessible areas.
(4) The musician group was comprised of 31 brass instrument players, and 31 reed instrument or flute players.
(5) I also love music – I taught myself Chinese traditional instruments, such as the bamboo flute, and brought them to Britain.
(6) The results showed that the high speed finishing technique by twelve and thirty fluted carbide burs and final polishing with Command Ultrafine Luster Paste produces the smoothest and flatest surface of HERCULITE XR.
(7) More than 1,000 republican dissidents, their supporters and seven flute bands marched from the nationalist Ardoyne district, through the north of the city to central Belfast.
(8) He admired a portrait of a girl playing a flute and was amused by the pictures of North Korea’s late leaders Kim Jong-il and Kim Il-sung, which hung high on the wall in the middle of the room, as is common in government buildings.
(9) Line the tin with the pastry, pressing into the fluted edges of the tin.
(10) The simplified technique of insertion, the strength of the device, and the results of this study indicate that the fluted subtrochanteric rod has several advantages over other available devices.
(11) He dropped karate lessons and started learning the flute.
(12) Debris was also recorded on the land and flute spiral surfaces with morphological changes on the dentinal walls.
(13) A series of identically matched pairs of fresh-frozen canine femora (approximating human radii in size and dimension) were used to mechanically compare pull-out strength between 4 mm predrilled, self-tapping, half-pins and 4 mm self-drilling, self-tapping half-pins with drill bit-like cutting flutes.
(14) The word still makes me blench – Orangemen marching, Gazza playing an imaginary flute to Rangers fans, sectarian hatreds.
(15) Listening to Temples' Prisms three and half decades on, to its shimmering Beach-Boys-in-66 sonics and baroque arrangement (warning: features prominent use of flutes), you might feel similarly baffled.
(16) The stepped fluted rod is designed as a single unit and has exceptional bending strength and rigidity as well as excellent torsional load-carrying capacity.
(17) I have developed a flute-pick for peeling preretinal membranes in the presence of surface or intravitreal hemorrhages.
(18) One hundred ninety-three of 196 acute nonpathologic femoral shaft fractures were treated consecutively with intramedullary nailing using the fluted rod.
(19) Penetrability of the bovine teat duct to Escherichia coli endotoxin solution was measured before and after reaming the duct with a polypropylene tube, a steel twist drill bit, or a fluted drill point.
(20) The influences of surface structures, such as threads, cuts, holes, perforations, and flutes, are demonstrated.
Ney
Definition:
(n.) A fabric of twine, thread, or the like, wrought or woven into meshes, and used for catching fish, birds, butterflies, etc.
(n.) Anything designed or fitted to entrap or catch; a snare; any device for catching and holding.
(n.) Anything wrought or woven in meshes; as, a net for the hair; a mosquito net; a tennis net.
(n.) A figure made up of a large number of straight lines or curves, which are connected at certain points and related to each other by some specified law.
Example Sentences:
(1) Temperature adjustment of INFRARED (NEY Co.) is to use Powerlevel, and of BEAMWERDER (YOSHIDA Co.) is adjusting the height of the turn table.
(2) The results indicated that gold alloys responded slightly better than Ney 76 alloy, but similar to Albacast alloy with adequate correlation between the four criteria evaluated.
(3) The proposed clasp corresponds to two Ney type I clasps acting on one tooth.
(4) For those not familiar with the Big-Phil-Little-Ney dynamic in the flesh, Brazil’s first press conference on the eve of the tournament was intriguing, so gurglingly affectionate are the pair of them in public.
(5) (2) The Ney G-3 as-welded samples had no ductility, but heat treating greatly increased their yield stress.
(6) As well as announcing the funding, Eric Pickles , the communities secretary, on Thursday said the commissioners who would take over the running of crisis-hit Rotherham council were Sir Derek Myers, Stella Manzie, Malcolm Newsam, Mary Ney and Julie Kenny.
(7) The lead Labour member on the Metropolitan Police Authority, Joanne McCart ney, tonight wrote to the Metropolitan police commissioner, Sir Paul Stephenson, asking for details of senior officers whose voicemail may have been intercepted by Mulcaire.
(8) The authors remind the original principles having led Akers, Roach and Ney in the conception of their "retentive complexes" and analyse the main biomechanical concepts included in their propositions.
(9) As a congressional aide in the late 1990s to former Ohio congressman Bob Ney, he brought an unloaded gun into a House of Representatives building on Capitol Hill.
(10) The alloy Ney Cast III is superior in performance to the other low golds and approximately equivalent to the high-gold alloy Firmilay.
(11) The authors describe the different "retentive complexes" proposed by the Akers, Roach and Ney schools and analyse their biomechanical validity.
(12) Speaker Ryan is giving a green light to congressional corruption.” The OCE was created in March 2008 after the cases of former Representative Randy “Duke” Cunningham, a Republican from California, who served more than seven years in prison on bribery and other charges; as well as cases involving former Representative Bob Ney, a Republican from Ohio, who was charged in the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal and pleaded guilty to corruption charges, and former Representative William Jefferson, a Democrat from Louisiana, convicted on corruption in a separate case.
(13) In curating the collective, co-producers Miles Jay and Mina Girgis sought to highlight the unique timbres of these instruments, while also surrounding them with complementary sounds from their respective traditions, including the Ethiopian saxophone, Egyptian ney, oud, and violin, and the bass guitar.
(14) (5) The Ney B-2 as-welded specimens produced satisfactory joints which did not benefit from heat treatment.
(15) Myers will be lead commissioner and be paid £800 a day; Manzie will have the title of managing director commissioner, with a salary of £160,000; Newsam will be children’s social care commissioner; and Ney and Kenny will be supporting commissioners.
(16) A 5-year clinical comparison between silver palladium alloys (Albacast and Ney 76) and gold alloy (Firmilay) was conducted.