Get to know Fluting better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like flute or groove.
Fluting meaning
- A decoration consisting of parallel, normally vertical, flutes (grooves) incised into the surface.
- The act of making such grooves.
- A flute-like sound.
Using Fluting
- The main meaning on this page is: A decoration consisting of parallel, normally vertical, flutes (grooves) incised into the surface. | The act of making such grooves. | A flute-like sound.
- Useful related words include: flute, groove, channel.
- In the example corpus, fluting often appears in combinations such as: as fluting, the fluting.
Context around Fluting
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 6 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 11 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Fluting
- In this selection, "fluting" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, blouse, distinctive, spiral, irons, delivery and rifling stand out and add context to how "fluting" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a distinctive fluting delivery suited and built without fluting. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "fluting" sits close to words such as aadi, aayush and abbottabad, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with fluting
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The glue is applied on tips of the fluting. (9 words)
During the Hellenistic period, Corinthian columns were sometimes built without fluting. (11 words)
The bottom rollers were wood and metal, with fluting along the length. (12 words)
For decades, anyone else’s performance seemed like a poor cover version, either too derivative or too dissimilar: Pears had a distinctive, fluting, delivery suited to the six settings of English poems about night, from Ben Jonson to Blake to Keats. (41 words)
Kamath (2001), p136 Most Hoysala temples have a plain covered entrance porch supported by lathe turned (circular or bell-shaped) pillars which were sometimes further carved with deep fluting and moulded with decorative motifs. (34 words)
Today, McCartney’s collection includes irons of all types, such as “fluting irons” that pressed fluted ruffles on cuffs and collars, specialty irons for women and men’s hats and the “Mrs. (32 words)
Example sentences (11)
She looked like a modern-day apsara along with parrot green she wore a micro blouse, fluting her cleavage.
Today, McCartney’s collection includes irons of all types, such as “fluting irons” that pressed fluted ruffles on cuffs and collars, specialty irons for women and men’s hats and the “Mrs.
For decades, anyone else’s performance seemed like a poor cover version, either too derivative or too dissimilar: Pears had a distinctive, fluting, delivery suited to the six settings of English poems about night, from Ben Jonson to Blake to Keats.
Alternatively, beading or chains of husks may take the place of the fillets in the fluting, for Corinthian is the most playful and flexible of the orders.
A rifle is so named for the spiral fluting ( rifling ) carved into the inner surface of its barrel, which imparts a self-stabilizing spin to the single bullets it fires.
Doric columns are almost always cut with grooves, known as "fluting", which run the length of the column and are usually 20 in number, although sometimes fewer.
During the Hellenistic period, Corinthian columns were sometimes built without fluting.
However, the similar fluting at the base of the shafts might indicate an intention for the plain shafts to be capable of wrapping in drapery.
Kamath (2001), p136 Most Hoysala temples have a plain covered entrance porch supported by lathe turned (circular or bell-shaped) pillars which were sometimes further carved with deep fluting and moulded with decorative motifs.
The bottom rollers were wood and metal, with fluting along the length.
The glue is applied on tips of the fluting.
Common combinations with fluting
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- as fluting 2×
- the fluting 2×