Flute vs Flote - What's the difference?
flute | flote |
(musical instruments) A woodwind instrument consisting of a metal, wood or bamboo tube with a row of circular holes and played by blowing across a hole in the side of one end or through a narrow channel at one end against a sharp edge, while covering none, some or all of the holes with the fingers to vary the note played.
* Alexander Pope
A glass with a long, narrow bowl and a long stem, used for drinking wine, especially champagne.
a lengthwise groove, such as one of the lengthwise grooves on a can escape
(architecture, firearms) A semicylindrical vertical groove, as in a pillar, in plaited cloth, or in a rifle barrel to cut down the weight.
A long French bread roll.
An organ stop with a flute-like sound.
To play on a .
To make a flutelike sound.
To utter with a flutelike sound.
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To form flutes or channels in (as in a column, a ruffle, etc.); to cut a semicylindrical vertical groove in (as in a pillar, etc.).
(flite).
(obsolete) A wave.
* 1610 , , act 1 scene 2
As verbs the difference between flute and flote
is that flute is while flote is .As an adjective flute
is reedy (of a voice).flute
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) flaute, from (etyl) flaut, ultimately from three possibilities: * Blend of Provencal * From Latin * Imitative.Noun
(en noun)- The breathing flute's soft notes are heard around.
- (Simmonds)
Derived terms
* pan flute * skin fluteSee also
* bansuriVerb
Etymology 2
Compare (etyl) ?, (etyl) fluit.External links
* (wikipedia "flute") * ----flote
English
Etymology 1
Verb
(head)Etymology 2
Compare (etyl) flot, (etyl) (lena) (fluctus); also compare (float) (noun).Noun
(en noun)- [...] they all have met again, / And are upon the Mediterranean flote / Bound sadly home for Naples [...]