(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.
Piccolo
Definition:
(n.) A small, shrill flute, the pitch of which is an octave higher than the ordinary flute; an octave flute.
(n.) A small upright piano.
(n.) An organ stop, with a high, piercing tone.
Example Sentences:
(1) Without working too hard she studied for a PhD in political science, then devoted rather more effort to learning mime at the Piccolo Teatro.
(2) "The theme tune by Ronnie Hazlehurst features a piccolo spelling out the title in Morse code, excluding the apostrophes.
(3) Heterochromatic-euchromatic rearrangements are examined with respect to position effects on expression of the rosy region genes l(3)12, rosy, snake and piccolo, as well as suppressor effects.
(4) Success, however, was still not immediate; after making his operatic debut that same year conducting Prokofiev's Love for Three Oranges in Trieste and a first appearance at the Milan's Piccolo Scala in a concert in 1960 to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the birth of Alessandro Scarlatti, he turned to teaching – partly to support his new wife, Giovanna Cavazzoni, and their two children, Daniele and Alessandra.
(5) Trumpet and piccolo players received a noise dose of 160% and 124%, respectively, over mean levels during part of the study.