A Quick and Simple Dictionary

flute

1. Noun.  (context, 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.
2. Noun.  A glass with a long, narrow bowl and a long stem, used for drinking wine, especially champagne. .
3. Noun.  A helical groove going up a drill bit which allows the drilled out material to come up out of the hole as it's drilled.
4. Noun.  (architecture, firearms) A semicylindrical vertical groove in a pillar, or a similar groove in a rifle barrel used to cut down the weight.
5. Verb.  (intransitive) To play on a flute.
6. Verb.  (intransitive) To make a flutelike sound.
7. Verb.  (transitive) To utter with a flutelike sound.
8. Verb.  (transitive) 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.).