Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Architecture 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.
from The Century Dictionary.
- 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.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Decoration by means of flutes or channels; a flute, or flutes collectively
- noun a laundry iron for fluting ruffles; -- called also
Italian iron , orgaufering iron . - noun a machine for forming spiral flutes, as on balusters, table legs, etc.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Present participle of
flute . - noun architecture A
decoration consisting of parallel, normally vertical,flutes (grooves ) incised into the surface - noun The act of making such grooves
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a groove or furrow in cloth etc (particularly a shallow concave groove on the shaft of a column)
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Examples
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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.
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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.
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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:
Archive 2008-07-01 2008
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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.
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Army came "fluting" among us, but he thought that the Army's success would be as "fleeting" as it was "fluting."
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, July 16, 1892 Various
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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.
The Yosemite John Muir 1876
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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.
Old Jack William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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On the two large canvases, the visual effect is one of fluting on classical Greek columns.
Familiarity Does Little to Excite Peter Plagens 2011
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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.
Prospecting Some Personal Landscapes Lance Esplund 2010
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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 ..
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