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FLUTING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does fluting mean?
• FLUTING (noun)
The noun FLUTING has 1 sense:
1. a groove or furrow in cloth etc (particularly a shallow concave groove on the shaft of a column)
Familiarity information: FLUTING used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A groove or furrow in cloth etc (particularly a shallow concave groove on the shaft of a column)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
flute; fluting
Hypernyms ("fluting" is a kind of...):
channel; groove (a long narrow furrow cut either by a natural process (such as erosion) or by a tool (as e.g. a groove in a phonograph record))
Derivation:
flute (form flutes in)
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