fluting

Meanings

Plural: flutings

Noun

• a groove or furrow in cloth etc (particularly a shallow concave groove on the shaft of a column)
• A decoration consisting of parallel, normally vertical, flutes (grooves) incised into the surface.
• The act of making such grooves.
• A flute-like sound.
• A fluted pleat; a small, rounded or pressed pleat used as trimming on a garment.
• The erosional process by which a well-jointed coarse-grained rock, such as granite or gneiss, surface develops a set of flutes.

Verb

• form flutes in
• present participle and gerund of flute

Adj

• Making a sound like a flute.

Synonyms

flute

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