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Definition: Lute |
LuteNoun1. A substance for packing a joint or coating a porous surface to make it impervious to gas or liquid. 2. Chordophone consisting of a plucked instrument having a pear-shaped body, a usually bent neck, and a fretted fingerboard. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "lute" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Etymology: Lute \Lute\, noun. [Latin lutum mud, clay: compare to Old French lut.]. (references) |
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Dream Interpretation | To dream of playing on one, is auspicious of joyful news from absent friends. Pleasant occupations follow the dreaming of hearing the music of a lute. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Metallurgy | To seal with clay or other plastic material. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The lute is a round-backed plucked-string instrument, developed in the Middle East and related to the Arabic oud (Al-'ud became 'lute'.).
The lute (its name is a corruption of the Arabic) was brought to Europe in the Middle Ages, but its heyday was the European Renaissance. The lute at that time usually had 6 courses of (gut) strings, with 2 strings per course. These were usually tuned to the same intervals as a viol, in fourths with a major third in the middle (so, for a lute in G, the tuning was GCFADG). This tuning is similar to the standard guitar tuning, except that the third is moved down a string. Some lutes use a single string for the first (treblemost) course. Lutes were made in a variety of sizes and played at different pitches.
The fingerboard of a lute is fitted with frets, traditionally made of catgut string going around the entire neck of the instrument.
The lute was particularly suited for the harmonies of the period, and was used as a solo instrument no less than as an accompaniment to singers or other instruments (sometimes as a basso continuo instrument). Lutes were made larger and more complex (see archlute, theorbo) over the course of the seventeenth century, and had 7, 8 or even more courses of strings. Around the middle of the eighteenth century, musical tastes changed and the instrument was largely abandoned until the original instruments movements of the twentieth century brought about a revival.
Notable composers of lute music include Francesco da Milano, John Dowland, John Johnson, Denis Gaultier, Johann Sebastian Bach, Sylvius Leopold Weiss, Philip Rossiter ,Thomas Campion, Frederick the Great.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Lute."
Synonym: LuteSynonym: luting (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Coherence | Glue; agglutinate, conglutinate; cement, lute, paste, gum; solder, weld; cake, consolidate; (solidify); agglomerate. Adjective: cohesive, adhesive, adhering, cohering; Verb: tenacious, tough; sticky. |
Connection | Cement, glue, gum, paste, size, wafer, solder, lute, putty, birdlime, mortar, stucco, plaster, grout; viscum. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Lute |
| English words defined with "lute": Angelot, Archilute ♦ Cittern ♦ Enlute ♦ Loricate, lutanist, Luted, lutenist, Luter, lutist ♦ mandolin, Mandoline, Mandore ♦ Orpharion ♦ Pandore ♦ Theorbo, To wind up ♦ Unlute. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "lute": Amphion ♦ Broken Music ♦ Mahalath Maschil ♦ ORPHEUS, OVEN DAUBER ♦ Rift in the Lute ♦ Samoor. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "lute": lutanist. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Love Lute of Romany (1913) The Mended Lute (1909) | |
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| "Lute" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.92% of the time. "Lute" is used about 93 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 98.92% | 92 | 34,282 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 1.08% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 93 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "lute" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Lute | Last name | 1,000 | 12,187 |
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Expressions using "lute": Fat lute ♦ german lute. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "lute": Lute-backed, lute-books, lute-bridge, lute-composers, lute-like, lute-maker, lute-making, lute-manuscript, lute-music, lute-playing, lute-stop, lute-string. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
lute | 163 | baroque lute | 4 |
lute riley honda | 96 | holl jane lute | 3 |
lute riley | 15 | history lute | 3 |
lute olson | 14 | asphalt lute | 3 |
eric lute | 11 | lute tablature | 3 |
lute picture | 9 | basketball camp lute olsen | 3 |
renaissance lute | 8 | indian lute | 3 |
lute string | 8 | baroque lute theorbo | 3 |
lute for sale | 7 | el lute | 3 |
lute music | 6 | asphalt lute technique | 3 |
lute tracee | 6 | lute instrument | 3 |
lute society | 6 | kazaa lute | 3 |
lute tuning | 5 | building lute | 2 |
hole lute | 5 | lute kit | 2 |
lute maker | 5 | rob lute | 2 |
lute pea | 4 | jason lute | 2 |
lute medieval | 4 | free lute score | 2 |
lute supply | 4 | guitar lute | 2 |
lute olsen | 4 | gassires lute | 2 |
lute player | 4 | america lute society | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "lute"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | llautë, lahutë, udë, stuko (luting, mastic, putty, stucco), mbyll me stuk. (various references) | |
Arabic | ملاط (luting, mortar), مزهر (bed, blooming, florentine, florid), عود (accustom, be accustomed to, break, condition, flesh, habituate, inure, rod, wont), عزف (execute, fiddle, perform, pick, play, play away, render, set a piano, strike), طين (clay, daub, earth, loam, luting, mire, muck, mud, ooze, point, silt, slime, sludge, slush). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | уплътнявам (calk, firm, obturate), циментова замазка (luting, stucco), шаблон (former, matrix, model, mould, pattern, rut, sample, screed, stencil, template, templet), гумен уплътнител, глинена замазка (luting), овощарски клей, мастар (hawk, luting), замазвам (gloss, gloss over, seal, slur over, smarm, smooth out, soft pedal, stifle, varnish, veneer), залепвам (agglutinate, glue, glue on, glue up, paste, piece together, put up, stick down, stick on, stick to, stick up), запушвам със замазка, лютня. (various references) | |
Chinese | 琵琶 . (various references) | |
Czech | loutna. (various references) | |
Danish | afdækning (coverage, covering operation, degradation, degrade, denudation, guard, hedge, hedging, insulation, masking, screed, screeding). (various references) | |
Dutch | luit (german lute). (various references) | |
Esperanto | liuto. (various references) | |
Farsi | مهروموم کردن (Seal), گل یاسیمان مخصوص درزگیری وبتونه , حلقه لاستیکی مخصوص دهانه بطری , عودزدن , عود (Recurrence, Regression, Relapse, Reversion), درزگیری کردن (Seal). (various references) | |
Finnish | luuttu, tiivistää (condense, pack, seal up, stop caulk, tighten). (various references) | |
French | luth (luting). (various references) | |
German | Laute (loudly, unquietly, uproariously), Kitt (bond, cement, puttee, putty). (various references) | |
Greek | σφραγίζω με πηλό, λαβούτο, λαούτο. (various references) | |
Hebrew | קתרוס (lyre), עו" (another, else, further, more, still, yet). (various references) | |
Hungarian | ragasztószer (adhesive, cement, glue, gum, mucilage), lant (cither, cittern, lyre), kitt (putty). (various references) | |
Indonesian | kecapi (mandolin). (various references) | |
Italian | liuto (loudly, unquietly, uproariously), mastice (mastic, putty). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | リ ド鋼 (rearcar, remake, remote, remote car, remote control, remote directory, remote sensing, remote switch, rheumatism, rimland, rimmed steel, sledge). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | リュート . (various references) | |
Manx | loot. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | utelay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | alaúde. (various references) | |
Romanian | lãutã, mastic (cement, mastic), chit (eek, quit, quits, squeak). (various references) | |
Russian | лютня. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | lauta, svirati na lauti. (various references) | |
Spanish | laúd. (various references) | |
Swedish | luta (dip, incline, lean, prop, sag, shelve, slant, stoop, tilt, verge). (various references) | |
Thai | เกรียง, ฉาบ"้วยเกรียง. (various references) | |
Turkish | lökünlemek, ut çalmak, ut, macun ile sıvamak, macun (cement, dope, paste, priming, priming material, putty), kopuz. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | мастика (mastic, putty), лютня (bandore). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | mát tít (mastic). (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | kithara. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | barbitos, cithara, citharae, citharam, cithararum, citharas, citharis, plectrum. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "lute": lutea, luteal, lutecium, luteciums, luted, lutefisk, lutefisks, lutein, luteinization, luteinizations, luteinize, luteinized, luteinizes, luteinizing, luteins, lutenist, lutenists, luteolin, luteolins, luteotrophic, luteotrophin, luteotrophins, luteotropic, luteotropin, luteotropins, luteous, lutes, lutestring, lutestrings, lutetium, lutetiums, luteum. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "lute": absolute, ballute, convolute, dilute, dissolute, elute, evolute, flute, involute, irresolute, obvolute, pollute, resalute, resolute, revolute, salute, solute, volute. (additional references) | |
Words containing "lute": abluted, absolutely, absoluteness, absolutenesses, absoluter, absolutes, absolutest, ballutes, convoluted, convolutes, diluted, diluteness, dilutenesses, diluter, diluters, dilutes, dissolutely, dissoluteness, dissolutenesses, eluted, elutes, evolutes, fluted, flutelike, fluter, fluters, flutes, flutey, gluteal, glutei, glutelin, glutelins, gluten, glutenous, glutens, glutethimide, glutethimides, gluteus, involuted, involutes, irresolutely, irresoluteness, irresolutenesses, plutei, pluteus, polluted, polluter, polluters, pollutes, resaluted, resalutes. (additional references) | |
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"Lute" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aluet, klute, laute, lautte, Lbut, leti, Lette, leute, Leutze, litem, liti, Litte, litu, liuti, liuto, Lota, lote, Lotem, Loten, lothe, loti, lta, lte, Ltee, lude, lue, luet, luey, lufe, lufen, luge, lugee, Luhta, Luhti, luie, luitel, luje, lule, lume, lunte, lupe, Lushe, Lusta, luste, lut, luta, lutea, luteal, Lutece, luted, lutel, luten, luteola, lutey, luth, lutin, Lutken, Lutley, luto, Lutte, luty, luut, luve, luze, luzem, plute, slutte, Ult, Ulti, ulto, ults. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "lute" (pronounced luw"t) |
| 3 | l uw" t | dilute, flute, loot, pollute, salute. |
| 2 | -uw" t | acute, astute, boot, Brut, brute, Bute, Butte, cahoot, chute, commute, compute, coot, cute, impute, dispute, disrepute, fruit, hoot, jute, moot, mute, newt, permute, pursuit, recruit, refute, repute, reroute, root, scoot, shoot, Shute, subacute, suit, toot, uproot. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: tule. | |
| Words within the letters "e-l-t-u" | |
-1 letter: let, leu, tel. | |
-2 letters: el, et, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-l-t-u" | |
+1 letter: bluet, butle, culet, elute, exult, flute, letup, lunet, lutea, luted, lutes, tules, tulle, unlet, utile. | |
+2 letters: amulet, auklet, bluest, bluets, bullet, bustle, butled, butler, butles, culets, cullet, cutely, cutler, cutlet, cuttle, dilute, dulcet, eluant, eluate, eluent, eluted, elutes, englut, exults, fluent, fluted, fluter, flutes, flutey, futile, glutei, gluten, guglet, gullet, guttle, hurtle, hustle, justle, letups, louted, lucent, luetic, lunate, lunets, lunted, lusted, luster, lustre, luteal, lutein, luteum, lutzes, luxate, muleta, mullet, mutely, mutuel, mutule, nutlet, outlet, outlie, penult, plutei, pullet, reluct, result, runlet, rustle, rutile, salute, sleuth, solute, sublet, subtle, sutler, teledu, telium, tousle, touzle, tubule, tuille, tulles, tumble, tunnel, tupelo, turtle, tussle, ulster, unbelt, unfelt, volute. | |
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