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FLUTING

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

flute; fluting

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

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)

 II. (verb) 

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-ing form of the verb flute

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