fluting
IPA: fɫˈutɪŋ
noun
- (architecture, sculpture) A decoration consisting of parallel, normally vertical, flutes (grooves) incised into the surface.
- The act of making such grooves.
- A flute-like sound.
- (fashion) 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.
adjective
- Making a sound like a flute.
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Examples of "fluting" in Sentences
- On the two large canvases, the visual effect is one of fluting on classical Greek columns.
- Army came "fluting" among us, but he thought that the Army's success would be as "fleeting" as it was "fluting."
- 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.
- 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 ..
- 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.
- 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.
- 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:
- 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.
- 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.
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