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fluted

fluted adjective: having flutes or grooves, either for decoration or to trim weight. Also the simple past and past participle of flute.

fluted: having flutes or grooves, either for decoration or to trim weight
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Adjective

fluted (comparative more fluted, superlative most fluted)

  1. Having flutes or grooves, either for decoration or to trim weight.
    • Mr. W. Younger, of Huntington, Tenn., has invented a new washing machine, which by a rotary motion of a driving roller, he has combined a toothed roller and a fluted one and a rubbing board.1847, editorial staff, “Washing Machine”, in Scientific American, series 1, Volume 3, Issue 9, page 68
    • The cornice only is carried around the room at the ceiling, and in the staircase hall only the cymatium and corona of the cornice; but over the archway, supported by a colonnade of four fluted round columns, a complete entablature with nicely worked classic detail is employed and given added...1920, Frank Cousins, Phil M. Riley, The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company
    Synonyms:
    grooved, striated
  2. (Ireland, slang) Drunk; intoxicated.

Also used as

fluted is also the simple past and past participle of flute.

Examples of fluted in a sentence

  • If you don't have a crinkle cutter, a fluted pastry wheel creates the same effect.
  • Just so, light beaded on tin lanterns, drops fanfared from sprinklers, minnows fluted in pools.
  • All right, darling, Mother's coming,” she fluted, and buzzed off on the errand of mercy.

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Synonyms of fluted

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Forms of fluted

comparativemore fluted
superlativemost fluted

Origin of fluted

From flute + -ed.

Words formed from fluted

Phrases with fluted

Questions about fluted

What does fluted mean?
Fluted means having flutes or grooves, either for decoration or to trim weight.
What part of speech is fluted?
Fluted is an adjective.

Words near fluted in the dictionary

  1. flute stops
  2. flute-bird
  3. flute-douce
  4. flute-player
  5. flute-players
  6. fluted
  7. fluted around
  8. fluted giant clam
  9. fluted giant clams
  10. fluteful
  11. flutefuls

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