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lute1 /luːt / /ljuːt /noun A plucked stringed instrument with a long neck bearing frets and a rounded body with a flat front, rather like a halved egg in shape.Did such instruments as the lute, viol, or violoncello piccolo play a role as continuo instruments?...- Instrumental support, which mostly doubles the vocal lines, is provided by bamboo flutes, two-stringed viols, lutes, dulcimer, and panpipes, gently seasoned by percussive punctuation.
- Many of the riffs are righteously medieval in tone, but they rework those tripping arpeggios for a scorched-earth rock setting, without a lute, zither or lyre within earshot.
Origin Middle English: from Old French lut, leut, probably via Provençal from Arabic al-‘ūd. Rhymes acute, argute, astute, beaut, Beirut, boot, bruit, brut, brute, Bute, butte, Canute, cheroot, chute, commute, compute, confute, coot, cute, depute, dilute, dispute, flute, galoot, hoot, impute, jute, loot, minute, moot, newt, outshoot, permute, pollute, pursuit, recruit, refute, repute, route, salute, Salyut, scoot, shoot, Shute, sloot, snoot, subacute, suit, telecommute, Tonton Macoute, toot, transmute, undershoot, uproot, Ute, volute lute2 /luːt / /ljuːt /noun1 (also luting) [mass noun] Liquid clay or cement used to seal a joint, coat a crucible, or protect a graft.The source was not readily apparent but was pinpointed, using a portable gas detector, as coming from a lute drain seal. 1.1 [count noun] A rubber seal for a jar. verb [with object]Seal, join, or coat with lute: they were luted with a heavy coating of calcined chalk and eggshells...- Finally the flares of the mold must be luted to provide a seal between mold and bar so that the weld metal will not escape during the actual welding process.
- Finally, you should lute the orthodontic brackets using only light-activated resins, if possible.
Origin Late Middle English: from Old French lut or medieval Latin lutum, a special use of Latin lutum 'potter's clay'. |