Flute synonyms

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whistle
(Cockney rhyming slang) A suit (from whistle and flute).
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musical-instrument (related)
A device, object, contrivance or machine used to produce musical notes or sounds.
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piccolo
A small instrument of the flute family, pitched an octave above the ordinary flute
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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
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recorder
A judge who has criminal jurisdiction in a city.
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ocarina
A small, simple wind instrument shaped like a sweet potato, with finger holes and a mouthpiece: it produces soft, hollow tones
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Blokflöte (German)
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panpipe
A set of panpipes
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woodwind
The section of a band or orchestra composed of woodwind instruments.
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wind-instrument
(Music) a musical instrument that produces sound when air flows through it; reed instruments and brass instruments.
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fife
A traditional county of Scotland now a Unitary Authority, situated between the Firth of Tay and the Firth of Forth, with landward boundaries to Perth and Kinross and Clackmannanshire.
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tube
(Electronics) An electron tube.
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flageolet
A type of kidney bean, common in France.
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channel
The definition of a channel is a waterway, a means of communication and a specific television or radio frequency.
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crimp
A crimped pleat, fold, or part
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furrow
Furrow is defined as a shallow trench or a deep wrinkle.
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goffer
Ridges or pleats produced in this manner.
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wineglass
A glass, usually with a stem, from which wine is drunk.
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fluting
The grooves formed by narrow pleats in cloth, as in a ruffle.
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flute glass
a tall narrow wineglass
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champagne-flute
A piece of stemware with a long stem and a tall, narrow bowl on top, designed to keep champagne desirable during its consumption by preventing heat from the drinker's hand from warming the champagne while retaining its carbonation.
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pipe
(Music) A hollow tube used to produce sound, such as an organ pipe.
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fipple flute
Any of a class of vertical flutes, as the recorder, in which a wedgelike plug (fipple) near the mouthpiece diverts part of the breath in producing the tones
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direct flute
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flûte-à-bec (French)
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German flute
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chamfer
A furrow or groove, as in a column.
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instrument
A measuring or displaying device.
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piano (related)
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oboe (related)
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harp (related)
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bassoon (related)
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cello (related)
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tuba (related)
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flutes (related)
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violoncello (related)
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lute (related)
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claribel (related)
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viol (related)
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viola (related)
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trombone (related)
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Find another word for flute. In this page you can discover 44 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for flute, like: whistle, musical-instrument, piccolo, transverse flute, recorder, ocarina, Blokflöte (German), panpipe, woodwind, wind-instrument and fife.
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Flute Sentence Examples

  • Less frequently we hear of the flute (pipe) and later also of the fiddle (ficYele).

  • And now to-night my flute has waked the echoes over that very water.

  • According to the legend, Athena, who had invented the flute, threw it away in disgust, because it distorted the features.

  • Thus there was quite as much important solo music for the flute as for the violin; and almost more music for the viola da gamba than for the violoncello.

  • The legend that Athena, observing in the water the distortion of her features caused by playing that instrument, flung it away, probably indicates that the Boeotians whom the Athenians regarded with contempt, used the flute in their worship of the Boeotian Athena.

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