flute /floot/

1. A woodwind instrument, esp either of two types consisting of a wooden or metal tube with holes stopped by the fingertips or by keys, one type blown from the end through a fipple, the other (also called transverse flute) held horizontally and played by directing the breath across a mouth-hole
2. (in organ-building) a stop with stopped wooden pipes, having a flute-like tone
3. A longitudinal groove, such as on a pillar (architecture)
4. A tall, narrow wineglass
5. A shuttle in tapestry-weaving, etc

1. To play the flute
2. To make fluty sounds

1. To play or sing in soft flute-like tones
2. To form flutes or grooves in (architecture)

flutˈed adjective

Ornamented with flutes, channels or grooves

flutˈer noun

flutina /-tēˈ/ noun

A kind of accordion

flutˈing noun

1. Flute-playing or similar sounds
2. Longitudinal grooving

flutˈist noun same as flautist

flutˈy adjective

Like a flute in tone

flûte-à-bec /flüt-ä-bek/ noun (French)

A fipple flute, a recorder or flageolet

flute bird noun

An Australian bird of the family Artamidae, a type of piping crow (qv)

fluteˈmouth noun

A fish (genus Fistularia) similar to the sticklebacks

transverse¹ /tranzˈvûrs, tränzˈ, -vûrsˈ/

Set, sent, lying, etc crosswise

Crosswise

Anything set crosswise

1. To cross
2. To thwart
3. To reverse
4. To transform

transversˈal adjective

Transverse

A line cutting a set of lines

transversalˈity noun

transversˈally adverb

transverseˈly adverb

transverˈsion noun

transverse colon noun (anatomy)

The part of the colon lying across the abdominal cavity

transverse flute see under flute

transverse fracture noun (medicine)

A fracture caused by an impact at right angles to the bone

transverse wave noun (physics)

A wave motion in which the disturbance of the medium occurs at right angles to the direction of wave propagation

by transverse (Spenser)

Awry

• shipment
• shipments
• ship money
• ship of the desert
• ship of the line
• shipowner
• shipowners
• shippable
• shipped
• shippen
• shippens
• shipper
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• shipping
• shipping agent
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• shipping articles
• shipping clerk
• shipping clerks
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• shippo
• shippon
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• shippound