Meaning

• 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.

• A recorder, also a woodwind instrument.

• A glass with a long, narrow bowl and a long stem, used for drinking wine, especially champagne.

• 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

• A semicylindrical vertical groove, as in a pillar, in plaited cloth, or in a rifle barrel to cut down the weight.

• A long French bread roll, baguette.

• An organ stop with a flute-like sound.

• A shuttle in weaving tapestry etc.

Meaning

• To play on a flute.

• To make a flutelike sound.

• To utter with a flutelike sound.

• 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.).