Usually means: Woodwind instrument with many holes.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. flute: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. flute: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. flute: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. flute: Collins English Dictionary
  5. flute: Vocabulary.com
  6. Flute, flute: Wordnik
  7. flute: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. flute: Wiktionary
  9. flute: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. flute: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. flute: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. flute: Dictionary.com
  13. flute: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. flute: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Flute (cutting tool), Flute (disambiguation), Flute (glacial), Flute (song), Flute: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Flute: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. flute: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. flute: Rhymezone
  19. flute: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. flute: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Flute: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. flute: Free Dictionary
  23. flute: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. flute: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. flute: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. flute: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. FLUTE: Band Terms
  3. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. flute: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. flute: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. FLUTE: Acronym Finder

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Flute: Easton Bible
  2. Flute: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. flute: LITTLE EXPLORERS(TM) Picture Dictionary
  2. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  3. Flute: LITHICS-NET's Glossary of Lithics Terminology
  4. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. flute, flute, flute, flute: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. the flute: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Flute: Brew Monkey Glossary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (music) A woodwind instrument consisting of a tube with a row of holes that produce sound through vibrations caused by air blown across the edge of the holes, often tuned by plugging one or more holes with a finger; the Western concert flute, a transverse side-blown flute of European origin.
noun:  (colloquial) A recorder, also a woodwind instrument.
noun:  A glass with a long, narrow bowl and a long stem, used for drinking wine, especially champagne.
noun:  A lengthwise groove, such as one of the lengthwise grooves on a classical column, or a groove on a cutting tool (such as a drill bit, endmill, or reamer), which helps to form both a cutting edge and a channel through which chips can escape.
noun:  (architecture, firearms) A semicylindrical vertical groove, as in a pillar, in plaited cloth, or in a rifle barrel to cut down the weight.
noun:  A long French bread roll, baguette.
noun:  An organ stop with a flute-like sound.
noun:  A shuttle in weaving tapestry etc.
verb:  (intransitive) To play on a flute.
verb:  (intransitive) To make a flutelike sound.
verb:  (transitive) To utter with a flutelike sound.
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.).
noun:  A kind of flyboat; a storeship.

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