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Flute vs Lute - What's the difference?

flute | lute |

As nouns the difference between flute and lute

is that flute is 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 while lute is a fretted stringed instrument, similar to a guitar, having a bowl-shaped body or soundbox.

As verbs the difference between flute and lute

is that flute is to play on a flute while lute is to play on a lute, or as if on a lute.

flute

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) flaute, from (etyl) flaut, ultimately from three possibilities: * Blend of Provencal * From Latin * Imitative.

Noun

(en noun)
  • (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
    • The breathing flute's soft notes are heard around.
  • 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.
    • (Simmonds)
  • An organ stop with a flute-like sound.
    • Derived terms
    * pan flute * skin flute
    Related terms
    * flageolet
    See also
    * bansuri

    Verb

  • To play on a .
  • To make a flutelike sound.
  • To utter with a flutelike sound.
  • *
  • 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.).
    • Related terms
    * champagne flute * flautist * fluted

    Etymology 2

    Compare (etyl) ?, (etyl) fluit.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A kind of flyboat; a storeship.

    • External links

    * (wikipedia "flute") * ----

    lute

    English

    (wikipedia lute)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) lut (modern (luth)), from (etyl) (probably representing an (etyl) or North African pronunciation).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A fretted stringed instrument, similar to a guitar, having a bowl-shaped body or soundbox.
    • Related terms
    * archlute * lutanist, lutenist * lutherie * luthier * lutist

    See also

    * barbiton, barbitos * guembri * guqin * mandola * mandolin * oud * pipa * rebab * samisen, shamisen * theorbo

    Verb

    (lut)
  • To play on a lute, or as if on a lute.
  • * Tennyson
    • Knaves are men / That lute and flute fantastic tenderness.
    (Piers Plowman)
    (Keats)

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) lut, ultimately from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Thick sticky clay or cement used to close up a hole or gap, especially to make something air-tight.
  • A packing ring, as of rubber, for fruit jars, etc.
  • (brickmaking) A straight-edged piece of wood for striking off superfluous clay from mould.

    • Verb

    (lut)
  • To fix or fasten something with lute.
  • * 1888 , Rudyard Kipling, ‘A Friend's Friend’, Plain Tales from the Hills , Folio Society 2005, page 179:
    • To protect everything till it dried, a man luted a big blue paper cap from a cracker, with meringue-cream, low down on Jevon's forehead.

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