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Fluted vs Luted - What's the difference?

fluted | luted |

As verbs the difference between fluted and luted

is that fluted is (flute) while luted is (lute).

As an adjective fluted

is having flutes or grooves, either for decoration or to trim weight.

fluted

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Having flutes or grooves, either for decoration or to trim weight.
  • (Ireland, slang) Drunk; intoxicated.

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (flute)

    • luted

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (lute)

    • 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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