Past tense of flute
regular verb
The past tense of flute is fluted. The past participle is also fluted.
Forms of flute
| Base form (V1) | flute /flu(ː)t/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | fluted |
| Past participle (V3) | fluted |
| Present participle | fluting |
| Third person singular | flutes /fluːts/ |
Fluted in a sentence
- All right, darling, Mother's coming,” she fluted, and buzzed off on the errand of mercy.1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XIII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC
- If you don't have a crinkle cutter, a fluted pastry wheel creates the same effect.2012, Better Homes and Gardens, The Ultimate Cookie Book, →ISBN. From the entry pastry wheel
- Just so, light beaded on tin lanterns, drops fanfared from sprinklers, minnows fluted in pools.2000, Veronica Patterson, Swan, what Shores?, →ISBN, page 11. From the entry fanfare
- Each masterpiece in a fluted silver dish, silver candies sprinkled on the pink whipped cream!1936 August–September, Pearl Norton Swet, “The Medici Boots”, in Farnsworth Wright, editor, Weird Tales: A Magazine of the Bizarre and…. From the entry tortoni
- It was framed in ivory, and of fluted ivory were the slim columns it swung between.1911, Max Beerbohm, chapter II, in Zuleika Dobson. From the entry cheval glass
Meaning of flute
- noun 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 A recorder, also a woodwind instrument.
- noun A glass with a long, narrow bowl and a long stem, used for drinking wine, especially champagne.
Questions about the past tense of flute
- What is the past tense of flute?
- The past tense of flute is fluted.
- What is the past participle of flute?
- The past participle of flute is fluted.
- Is flute a regular or irregular verb?
- Flute is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: flute (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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