Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun flute

3 senses of flute

Sense 1
flute, transverse flute -- (a high-pitched woodwind instrument; a slender tube closed at one end with finger holes on one end and an opening near the closed end across which the breath is blown)
       => woodwind, woodwind instrument, wood -- (any wind instrument other than the brass instruments)

Sense 2
flute, flute glass, champagne flute -- (a tall narrow wineglass)
       => wineglass -- (a glass that has a stem and in which wine is served)

Sense 3
flute, fluting -- (a groove or furrow in cloth etc (particularly a shallow concave groove on the shaft of a column))
       => groove, channel -- (a long narrow furrow cut either by a natural process (such as erosion) or by a tool (as e.g. a groove in a phonograph record))

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb flute

1 sense of flute

Sense 1
flute -- (form flutes in)
       => crimp, pinch -- (make ridges into by pinching together)