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Synonyms for flute

a high-pitched woodwind instrument

a tall narrow wineglass

a groove or furrow in cloth etc (particularly a shallow concave groove on the shaft of a column)

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form flutes in

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From the "fluty, vanilla-fresh" beginning and even through the Art Nouveau years, Mitchell never had the timbres, inflections, or dynamic power that one associates with black standard-bearers in blues or jazz.
CAIRO: Egypt currently has one of the most successful and renowned health and family planning programs in the world, according to Holly Fluty Dempsey, director of the Office of Health and Population at USAID Egypt.
(7) "Reggie Fluty, the sheriff's deputy who answered Kreifels's emergency call" said that the "only spots [on Matthew's face] not covered in blood were the tracks cleansed by his tears." (8) Five days later, at a Colorado hospital, Matthew succumbed to his injuries.
In the first act, Officer Reggie Fluty describes her first encounter with the dying boy: "He was covered in, like I said, partially dry blood and blood all over his head--the only place that he did not have any blood on him, on his face, was what appeared to be where he had been crying down his face" (36).
Survivors include her husband; four sons, Patrick of Eugene, Charles of Jasper, William of Goshen and Robert of Seattle; two sisters, Polly Fluty of Kentucky and Flo Wilks of Ohio; 11 grandchildren; and 11 great-grandchildren.
The males have a super four-note song which sounds like a fluty "pleased to meet you".
Anne Schwanewilms' Desdemona was markedly less successful, with as many sour notes as sweet, as many hooty tones as fluty. Nor did she have the vocal amplitude to ride the orchestral climaxes.
Holly's voice was soft and fluty, bored, and if she used it to drive my mother crazy, my mother got her revenge by bellowing no to whatever Holly asked.
Thank you, Bill Fluty. You assigned me my first "story"--a three-graph rewrite of a press release about a local speedway.
Thus, I found myself beside the sphinxlike Ileana, with her fluty voice, her guarded chuckle; the mercurial Michael, abrim with effervescent apercus; and a mysterious fellow, Georges, who, as the lover (we all believed) of the landlord, came along with the rental to do the mopping-up.
She grounds his fluty quavers and answers his occasional screech with a growl.
"CCNY has decided to take a strategic position with Cyberoam because of their unique ID-based security offering to the SME Community to guard them against external threats as well as unauthorized access to their mission critical business data," said Scott Fluty, president, CCNY.
To enhance the organic look of the design, Fluty and his clients chose a Tennessee crab orchard flagstone deck.
Their duets are "fluty, haunting-sounding," says Mennill, in contrast to the more-staccato bursts of other tropical wrens.
For after giving that sudden, violent start, Orlando-but Heaven be praised, at this very moment there struck up outside one of these frail, reedy, fluty, jerky, old-fashioned barrel-organs which are still sometimes played by Italian organ-grinders in back streets.