fluting

English

Verb

fluting

1. present participle and gerund of flute

Adjective

fluting (not comparable)

1. Making a sound like a flute.

Noun

fluting (plural flutings)

Two wooden dowels with lengthwise fluting.

1. (architecture, sculpture) A decoration consisting of parallel, normally vertical, flutes (grooves) incised into the surface.
2. The act of making such grooves.
3. A flute-like sound.
4. (fashion) A fluted pleat; a small, rounded or pressed pleat used as trimming on a garment.
5. The erosional process by which a well-jointed coarse-grained rock, such as granite or gneiss, surface develops a set of flutes.

Translations

decoration

• Finnish: uritus (fi), kanneluuri (fi)
• German: Kannelierung f, Riffelung (de) f, Auskehlung f, Rille (de) f, Rüschen (de) pl or f, Rillen (de) pl or f
• Hungarian: kannelúra
• Irish: cuisliú m
• Russian: рифле́ние (ru) n (riflénije), гофриро́вка (ru) f (gofriróvka)

act

• Finnish: uritus (fi)
• German: Riffeln (de) n, Kannelieren n, Auskehlen n, , Kräuseln n
• Swedish: räffling c