Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Architecture A decorative motif consisting of a series of uniform, usually vertical flutes, as those incised in the surface of a column.
- n. The act of incising or making grooves.
- n. The grooves formed by narrow pleats in cloth, as in a ruffle.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of playing on the flute, or the sound made by such playing; a flute-like sound.
- n. The act of forming a groove or furrow.
- n. A groove or furrow; fluted work; a flute: as, the flutings of a column, or of a woman's ruffle.
- n. One of the longitudinal channels in a screw-tap by which a cutting edge is given to the thread.
Wiktionary
- v. present participle of flute.
- n. architecture A decoration consisting of parallel, normally vertical, flutes (grooves) incised into the surface
- n. The act of making such grooves
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Decoration by means of flutes or channels; a flute, or flutes collectively
WordNet 3.0
- n. a groove or furrow in cloth etc (particularly a shallow concave groove on the shaft of a column)
Examples
“If spiral fluting is the main reason, perhaps someday we'll see it as standard issue barrel apparel on U.S. military rifles and machine guns such as the M-14, M-16 or M-240.”
“Wormwood buttering rack, Edwardian rat-hair doormat, woodworm in French fluting and the set of wooden birthing stirrups ...... are not necessarily an essential accompaniment to the modern bric a brac home, to which he adds:”
“All were “Recommended with reservations” and the only one that came close to the score for the top two pans was the scalloped edge Pyrex, which the testers didn’t like only because the “press-in fluting actually made pies look messy,” even though it baked the pies perfectly.”
“Army came "fluting" among us, but he thought that the Army's success would be as "fleeting" as it was "fluting.”
“When it is in full springtime bloom it is partly divided by rocks that roughen the lip of the precipice, but this division amounts only to a kind of fluting and grooving of the column, which has a beautiful effect.”
“The side walls were solid, with windows, the frames of which were bound together to represent a kind of fluting, and which had a very ornamented appearance.”
“On the two large canvases, the visual effect is one of fluting on classical Greek columns.”
“Stare up into the ceiling-mounted "Untitled" (2010) — consisting of a hanging piece of aluminum and vertical wooden posts painted glossy mint green — and associations drift among lamp, vaulted arch, pool, columnar fluting, sky and cloud.”
The Wall Street Journal: Prospecting Some Personal Landscapes
“I really like the spiral fluting. .make mine a stainless in 300 Wby, 24 inch barrel, a checkered nutmeg stock with blackened forend tip and a limbsaver or pachmyr pad ..”
“The front fender vents and fluting along the side reminiscent of the Ferrari California seem pointless and fussy; and the daft, leering view of the car head-on makes it look as if it's auditioning for "Pokémon.”
The Wall Street Journal: The Coolest Ferrari Ever—Drive Carefully
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘fluting’.
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
veal, valve, used, yak, wax, wan, teak, vat, vas, strip, use, strap and 4515 more...
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Furrows
furrow, furrows, furrowing, furrow one's brow, interfurrow, water-furrow, dead-furrow, interventricular ..., jadelot's furrows, yolk-furrow, skirt-furrow, gouge-furrow and 30 more...
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Columniation
A list of terms pertaining to columns employed in architecture.
hypostyle, peristyle, columniation, Doric, Ionic, Corinthian, base, shaft, capital, entablature, architrave, frieze and 78 more...
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Castles and Keeps
Shamelessly ripped off from this site and others (to be named hereinafter). (Fair warning: for my own edification, I may add definitions/comments from the site, but you might want to just go there ...
abutment, adulterine, allure, angle-spur, apse, arbalest, arbalestier, arbalist, arcade, arch, armoury, arrow slit and 410 more...
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Poison
Words and phrases from Chris Wooding's book, Poison.
tallowcatcher, spar, landbar, insouciant, dandle, spatulate, tarpaulin, front, grump, dwarrow, gawp, wheelhouse and 32 more...
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