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Definition: Fluting |
FlutingNoun1. A groove or furrow in cloth etc especially the shallow concave groove on the shaft of a column. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "fluting" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
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Metallurgy | Kinking or breaking caused by the curving of metal strip on a radius so small. . . as to stretch the outer surface well beyond its elastic limit. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A peculiar method of surface decay by which granite or granite gneisses are left with a corrugated or fluted surface. In a large subangular fragment of granite, one side contains a dozen of these little channels, from 1 to 4 in (2.5 to 10.2 cm) deep and from 3 to 10 in (7.6 to 25.4 cm) apart from center to center. These channels run straight down the face ofthe rock. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: FlutingSynonym: flute (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Furrow | Noun: furrow, groove, rut, sulcus, scratch, streak, striae, crack, score, incision, slit; chamfer, fluting; corduroy road, cradle hole. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Fluting |
| English words defined with "fluting": Cabling ♦ Fluting iron ♦ Gauffering, Gauffering iron ♦ Italian iron ♦ Nurl ♦ Reeding. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "fluting": carder, blankets, continuous-flight auger, curtain drier, curtain framer, curtain stretcher ♦ stretcher operator, STRETCHER-DRIER OPERATOR. (references) |
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| "Fluting" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 88.46% of the time. "Fluting" is used about 26 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) | 88.46% | 23 | 72,767 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 11.54% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 26 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "fluting": Fluting iron ♦ Fluting lathe ♦ fluting medium ♦ fluting paper. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| 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 |
fluting | 8 |
fluting machine | 2 |
fluting roll | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "fluting"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | pajisje me hulliza, hullizim. (various references) | |
Arabic | صوت الفلوت, أخدود (channel, flute, furrow, groove, pothole, rut). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | свирене на флейта, рюшове, правене на канелюри, пеене с тънък глас. (various references) | |
Chinese | "长笛奏 (Fluted). (various references) | |
Czech | hra na flétnu. (various references) | |
Dutch | golfblad (corrugated medium). (various references) | |
French | rupture par flexion, rides, note flûte, cannelures (flute), cannelure feuille ondulée. (various references) | |
German | flötend. (various references) | |
Greek | ράβδωση (flute, groove, streak, stria, striation, stripe, wheal). (various references) | |
Hebrew | קול חליל, חריץ (crack, crevice, ditch, fissure, flute, groove, jag, notch, rut, score, slit, slot). (various references) | |
Hungarian | fuvolázás, barázdálás (channelling). (various references) | |
Italian | scanalatura (channel, flute, gorge, groove, rabbet, seam, slot). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | utingflay.(various references) | |
Russian | рифление (corrugation), игра на флейте. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | žlebljenje. (various references) | |
Turkish | flüt çalma, yiv şeklinde süs, pli (crease, flute, fold, plait, pleat, tuck). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự thổi sáo sự nói thánh thót. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "fluting": flutings. (additional references) | |
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"Fluting" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: falutin, faluting, Flatin, flating, flitin, fliting, flocting, flopting, floting, flubing, flueing, fluing, flurting, fluten, flutring, flyting, Frutin. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "f-g-i-l-n-t-u" | |
-1 letter: ingulf, luting, tinful. | |
-2 letters: fling, flint, flung, fungi, glint, guilt, lungi, unfit, unlit, until. | |
-3 letters: flit, gift, gilt, glut, gulf, iglu, lift, ling, lint, litu, lung, lunt, ting, tung, unit. | |
-4 letters: fig, fil, fin, fit, flu, fug, fun, gin, git, gnu, gul, gun, gut, lin, lit, lug, nil, nit, nut, til, tin, tug, tui. | |
| Words containing the letters "f-g-i-l-n-t-u" | |
+1 letter: faulting, flouting, flutings, gunflint. | |
+2 letters: flaunting, gunflints, outflying, sulfating, uplifting. | |
+3 letters: antifungal, defaulting, flustering, fluttering, insightful, outfabling, outfeeling, outflowing, outfooling, sufflating. | |
+4 letters: antifouling, antifungals, centrifugal, fatiguingly, flauntingly, fluctuating, formulating, fulgurating, fulguration, fulminating, fungibility, highfalutin, outbluffing, outflanking, outfumbling, stultifying, sulfonating, sulfureting, unfaltering. | |
+5 letters: bullfighting, butterflying, centrifugals, faultfinding, flocculating, fluoridating, fluorinating, footfaulting, fulgurations, genuflecting, genuflection, infibulating, insightfully, insufflating, rightfulness, stupefyingly, sulfuretting, uglification, unflattering. | |
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