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Synonyms for fluting
| Grammar : Noun, verb |
| Spell : floo-ting |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈflu tɪŋ |
Top 10 synonyms for fluting Other synonyms for the word fluting
- arroyo
- artery
- blast
- canal
- canyon
- chamber
- channel
- chase
- conduit
- corrugation
- course
- crease
- crimp
- crinkle
- crow's-foot
- cut
- cutting
- depression
- dig
- dike
- ditch
- duct
- fife
- flute
- fluting
- fold
- furrow
- gouge
- groove
- gully
- gutter
- hollow
- incision
- interweave
- knit
- line
- main
- notch
- pass
- passage
- pigtail
- pipe
- plat
- pleach
- pleat
- plica
- pucker
- rabbet
- raceway
- ridge
- rimple
- rivel
- ruck
- runway
- rut
- scallop
- score
- scratch
- seam
- sewer
- shriek
- signal
- skirl
- slit
- sound
- strait
- tideway
- toot
- tootle
- trench
- tress
- trill
- trough
- tube
- tuck
- twine
- valley
- vein
- warble
- watercourse
- way
- weave
- wheeze
- whine
- whiz
- wrinkle
Définition of fluting
Origin :- late 14c., "to play upon the flute," from flute (n.). Meaning "to make (architectural) flutes" is from 1570s. Related: Fluted; fluting.
- As in channel : noun pathway, usually containing water
- As in furrow : noun ditch
- As in groove : noun channel, indentation
- As in whistle : verb make sharp, shrill sound
- As in plait : verb braid
- The fluting of the Doric column will thus be finished in the style appropriate to it.
- Extract from : « Ten Books on Architecture » by Vitruvius
- Alice smiled but went on fluting the edge of an apple pie with a fork.
- Extract from : « Chicken Little Jane » by Lily Munsell Ritchie
- Sliding with the tide, he heard it fluting in the bosom of the hills.
- Extract from : « The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, Complete » by George Meredith
- The fluting does not look like its ornament, but its drapery.
- Extract from : « The Life of Florence Nightingale vol. 1 of 2 » by Edward Tyas Cook
- Not for her the intricacies of starching and skillful ironing and fluting.
- Extract from : « Atlantic Narratives » by Mary Antin
- The columns of the temple are unfinished, the fluting has never been done.
- Extract from : « In the Land of Temples » by Joseph Pennell
- The cupping is caused by not adding a sufficient number and the fluting by adding too many.
- Extract from : « Philippine Mats » by Hugo H. Miller
- From the green depths came the fluting of a lone wood-thrush.
- Extract from : « Erskine Dale--Pioneer » by John Fox
- I hear the fluting of the wind, and the tinkling of guitars.
- Extract from : « All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography » by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
- Trumpeting and fluting rose early on the morn, as sign that they should ride.
- Extract from : « The Nibelungenlied » by Unknown
Antonyms for fluting
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