fluting
verb
- 1
To play on a flute.
- 2
To make a flutelike sound.
- 3
To utter with a flutelike sound.
- 4
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
- 1
A decoration consisting of parallel, normally vertical, flutes (grooves) incised into the surface.
- 2
The act of making such grooves.
- 3
A flute-like sound.
- 4
A fluted pleat; a small, rounded or pressed pleat used as trimming on a garment.
adjective
- 1
Making a sound like a flute.
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