Fluting

Word FLUTING
Character 7
Hyphenation flut ing
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Fluting"

What do we mean by fluting?

A decorative motif consisting of a series of uniform, usually vertical flutes, as those incised in the surface of a column. noun

The act of incising or making grooves. noun

The grooves formed by narrow pleats in cloth, as in a ruffle. noun

The act of playing on the flute, or the sound made by such playing; a flute-like sound. noun

The act of forming a groove or furrow. noun

A groove or furrow; fluted work; a flute: as, the flutings of a column, or of a woman's ruffle. noun

One of the longitudinal channels in a screw-tap by which a cutting edge is given to the thread. noun

Decoration by means of flutes or channels; a flute, or flutes collectively noun

A laundry iron for fluting ruffles; -- called also Italian iron, or gaufering iron. noun

A machine for forming spiral flutes, as on balusters, table legs, etc. noun

Present participle of flute. verb

A decoration consisting of parallel, normally vertical, flutes (grooves) incised into the surface noun

The act of making such grooves noun

A groove or furrow in cloth etc (particularly a shallow concave groove on the shaft of a column) noun

To play on a flute.

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.).

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The word "fluting" in example sentences

If spiral fluting is the main reason, perhaps someday we'll see it as standard issue barrel apparel on U.S. military rifles and machine guns such as the M-14, M-16 or M-240. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Wormwood buttering rack, Edwardian rat-hair doormat, woodworm in French fluting and the set of wooden birthing stirrups ...... are not necessarily an essential accompaniment to the modern bric a brac home, to which he adds: ❋ Unknown (2008)

All were “Recommended with reservations” and the only one that came close to the score for the top two pans was the scalloped edge Pyrex, which the testers didn’t like only because the “press-in fluting actually made pies look messy,” even though it baked the pies perfectly. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Army came "fluting" among us, but he thought that the Army's success would be as "fleeting" as it was "fluting." ❋ Various (N/A)

When it is in full springtime bloom it is partly divided by rocks that roughen the lip of the precipice, but this division amounts only to a kind of fluting and grooving of the column, which has a beautiful effect. ❋ John Muir (1876)

The side walls were solid, with windows, the frames of which were bound together to represent a kind of fluting, and which had a very ornamented appearance. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)

You can get blue or stainless, straight or spiral fluting, or no fluting. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Stare up into the ceiling-mounted "Untitled" (2010) — consisting of a hanging piece of aluminum and vertical wooden posts painted glossy mint green — and associations drift among lamp, vaulted arch, pool, columnar fluting, sky and cloud. ❋ Lance Esplund (2010)

Perfect six with a double brow tine, and some fluting in the main beam from an injury in velvet. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I really like the spiral fluting. .make mine a stainless in 300 Wby, 24 inch barrel, a checkered nutmeg stock with blackened forend tip and a limbsaver or pachmyr pad .. ❋ Unknown (2009)

What is the advantage to spiral vs straight fluting? ❋ Unknown (2009)

On the two large canvases, the visual effect is one of fluting on classical Greek columns. ❋ Peter Plagens (2011)

The front fender vents and fluting along the side reminiscent of the Ferrari California seem pointless and fussy; and the daft, leering view of the car head-on makes it look as if it's auditioning for "Pokémon." ❋ Dan Neil (2011)

Dan Neil But the front fender vents and fluting along the side seem pointless and fussy, Mr. Neil writes. ❋ Unknown (2011)

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