Flute vs Plute - What's the difference?
flute | plute |
(musical instruments) A woodwind instrument consisting of a metal, wood or bamboo tube with a row of circular holes and played by blowing across a hole in the side of one end or through a narrow channel at one end against a sharp edge, while covering none, some or all of the holes with the fingers to vary the note played.
* Alexander Pope
A glass with a long, narrow bowl and a long stem, used for drinking wine, especially champagne.
a lengthwise groove, such as one of the lengthwise grooves on a can escape
(architecture, firearms) A semicylindrical vertical groove, as in a pillar, in plaited cloth, or in a rifle barrel to cut down the weight.
A long French bread roll.
An organ stop with a flute-like sound.
To play on a .
To make a flutelike sound.
To utter with a flutelike sound.
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To form flutes or channels in (as in a column, a ruffle, etc.); to cut a semicylindrical vertical groove in (as in a pillar, etc.).
(colloquial, Australia, US) A plutocrat, especially a rich industrialist.
* 1909 , Western Federation of Miners, Miner?s Magazine ,
* 1915 , , Michael O?Halloran , 2006, Echo Library,
* 1917 , New Zealand House of Representatives, Parliamentary Debates ,
* 1917 October 4, People'', quoted in 1989, John Gunn, ''Along Parallel Lines: A History of the Railways of New South Wales ,
* 1938 , , 2010,
* 1993 , Frank Cain, The Wobblies at War: A History of the IWW and the Great War in Australia ,
* 2006 , Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day , Vintage 2007, p. 104:
As a verb flute
is .As an adjective flute
is reedy (of a voice).As a noun plute is
(colloquial|australia|us) a plutocrat, especially a rich industrialist.flute
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) flaute, from (etyl) flaut, ultimately from three possibilities: * Blend of Provencal * From Latin * Imitative.Noun
(en noun)- The breathing flute's soft notes are heard around.
- (Simmonds)
Derived terms
* pan flute * skin fluteSee also
* bansuriVerb
Etymology 2
Compare (etyl) ?, (etyl) fluit.External links
* (wikipedia "flute") * ----plute
English
Alternative forms
*Noun
(en noun)page 95,
- As a result, the plutes are in a panic.
page 224,
- “Exactly what the plutes' are doing,” said Mickey. “Gee, Junior, if your Pa does all the things he said he was going to, you'll be a ' plute yourself!”
- “Never heard him say anything in my life he didn?t do,” said Junior, “and didn?t you notice that he put you in too? You?ll be just as much of a plute as I will.”
page 153,
- Then one of the papers — the Wellington Truth — had a paragraph in it that on account of the strike being settled I was deprived of that trip to represent the “plutes ” in Australia — so easily can one?s action be misconstrued and misunderstood.
page 287,
- Against the workers were arrayed the whole forces of Australian Capitalism — plutes (sic ), press, politicians, pulpits and all the powers and forces of the State and Federal Government, with the Courts and all the forces of repression behind the State Capitalist Government.
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- And they can?t export it, because, Australia bein? a workin? man?s paradise, which is better than it bein? a paradise for Plutes , their cost of production is too high for competition with countries where labour is sweated.
page 180,
- but then the prostitutes of the plute press are always cunning flunkeys of the Most High.
- Straight talk. No double-talking you like the plutes do, ’cause with them what you always have to be listening for is the opposite of what they say.