(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.
Plait
Definition:
(n.) A flat fold; a doubling, as of cloth; a pleat; as, a box plait.
(n.) A braid, as of hair or straw; a plat.
(v. t.) To fold; to double in narrow folds; to pleat; as, to plait a ruffle.
(v. t.) To interweave the strands or locks of; to braid; to plat; as, to plait hair; to plait rope.
Example Sentences:
(1) Wearing an open denim shirt, with her hair pulled into two plaits, she looks like the rebel she has always been.
(2) Add spices, stud the dough with candied peel, chocolate chips, nuts or dried fruit, layer or plait it, roll it up or just drizzle it with water icing.
(3) Investigation on fixation of muscular tendons to the skeleton has demonstrated that in some cases tendinous filaments plait into the periosteum and terminate in it, while in other cases not all the tendinous filaments terminate at the level of the periosteum, but some of them penetrate into the bone.
(4) The cytoskeleton, marked by antibodies to desmin and filamin is composed of a mainly longitudinal, meandering and branched system of fibrils that contrasts with the plait-like, interdigitating arrangement of linear fibrils of the contractile apparatus, labeled with antibodies to myosin and tropomyosin.
(5) As I had very long hair in plaits, I would roll them up into two buns and play Leia .
(6) The census shows hundreds of different occupational titles for women, including married women working in agriculture, artificial flower-making, chemical working, cigar-making, warehouse supervising, the lithograph trade, meat preserving, straw plaiting, manufacturing of food and drink, printing, rabbit fur pulling and even medical galvanising.
(7) The story of Noah is written by two sources – the "J" writer, older and more folkloric, and the "Priestly writer" most interested in getting Judaism into a regular religious shape – both of which have been plaited together as best they could by later editors.
(8) It was made of a shield of plaited material strapped to the animal's body to "cover the genital parts without interfering with the animal's excretions".
(9) Around the world, hair plaited in unusual ways, we poured our glasses of wine and settled in for the opening episode of season four.
(10) Her mother carefully undid Liang Jieyun's plaits, combed out the strands and pinned them into a bun.
(11) Girl in Bath, the nude teenager crouching in the bath tub, in a pose both homely and potentially erotic; Hair Combing, the girl standing, body plumply outlined against the long cascade of hair; The Plait, which catches the moment when the daughter is almost a woman but not quite.
(12) "As an oral poet, he has a different way of putting clauses together: where a literary poet would strap them all to one finite verb, and make a line that's all plaited and twisted and controlled, an oral poet will grow the clauses out of each other.
(13) This is achieved by providing the pumping assembly with articulated lock bolts and locating grips diametrically on the faceplate of the pump over which, to temporarily fix the cover with distributing valves and the pump's diaphragms, a rubber plait is hooked on.
(14) Implants of carbon fibre, made by plaiting a tow of 10,000 filaments of Grafil type HT-S, were used to treat strains and ruptures of digital flexor tendons in 46 horses.
(15) The longitudinal fibrils do not run only parallel but also cross each other forming spirals (plaits).
(16) Hamleys dropped the egregiously prescriptive pink and blue colour scheme; the beauty parlour remains – and why the hell not when you can rinse a tenner out of parents for a French plait while educating girls in the idea that "pampering" is an end in itself?
(17) "My best moment was the plaited loaf in week three, because everything went so well.
(18) The established religion and the state are tightly plaited together.
(19) 8.40pm BST I've only just noticed Mel's special plaits for the final.
(20) And, in the same breath, she talks about Deepak Chopra's concept of synchrodestiny (there is a new age strand to her plait of enthusiasms).