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| 1. | a stringed musical instrument having a long, fretted neck and a hollow, typically pear-shaped body with a vaulted back. |
| 2. | to play a lute. |
| 3. | to perform (music) on a lute: a musician skilled at luting Elizabethan ballads. |
| 4. | to express (a feeling, mood, etc.) by means of a lute: The minstrel eloquently luted his melancholy. |
[Origin: 1325–75; ME < MF, OF < OPr laut < Ar al ʿūd lit., the wood]
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Audio Help [loot] Pronunciation Key noun, verb, lut·ed, lut·ing.
Audio Help [loot] Pronunciation Key noun, verb, lut·ed, lut·ing. [Origin: 1375–1425; late ME < ML lutum, special use of L lutum mud, clay]
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| 1. | a paving tool for spreading and smoothing concrete, consisting of a straightedge mounted transversely on a long handle. |
| 2. | to spread and smooth (concrete in a pavement) with a lute. |
[Origin: 1870–75, Americanism; < D loet]
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| lute 1
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n. A stringed instrument having a body shaped like a pear sliced lengthwise and a neck with a fretted fingerboard that is usually bent just below the tuning pegs. [Middle English, from Old French lut, from Old Provençal laut, from Arabic al-'ūd : al-, the + 'ūd, wood, branch, stem, lute.] |
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n. A substance, such as dried clay or cement, used to pack and seal pipe joints and other connections or coat a porous surface in order to make it tight. Also called luting. tr.v. lut·ed, lut·ing, lutes To coat, pack, or seal with lute. [Middle English, from Old French lut, from Latin lutum, potter's clay.] |
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lute
1295, from O.Fr. lut, from O.Prov. laut, from Arabic al-'ud, the Arabian lute, lit. "the wood" (source of Sp. laud, Port. alaude, It. liuto), where al is the definite article.
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| lute | |
noun | |
| 1. | a substance for packing a joint or coating a porous surface to make it impervious to gas or liquid |
| 2. | chordophone consisting of a plucked instrument having a pear-shaped body, a usually bent neck, and a fretted fingerboard |
| WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University. |
Main Entry: lute
Pronunciation: 'lüt
Function: noun
: a substance (as cement or clay) for packing a joint (as in laboratory apparatus) or coating aporous surface to produce imperviousness to gas or liquid —lute transitive verb lut·ed; lut·ing
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Lute
Lut"a*nist\, n. [LL. lutanista, fr. lutana lute. See Lute the instrument.] A person that plays on the lute. --Johnson.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
Lute
Lute\, n. [L. lutum mud, clay: cf. OF. lut.]1. (Chem.) A cement of clay or other tenacious infusible substance for sealing joints in apparatus, or the mouths of vessels or tubes, or for coating the bodies of retorts, etc., when exposed to heat; -- called also luting. 2. A packing ring, as of rubber, for fruit jars, etc. 3. (Brick Making) A straight-edged piece of wood for striking off superfluous clay from mold.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
Lute
Lute\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Luted; p. pr. & vb. n. Luting.] To close or seal with lute; as, to lute on the cover of a crucible; to lute a joint.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
Lute
Lute\, n. [OF. leut, F. luth; skin to Pr. la['u]t, It. li['u]to, le['u]to, Sp. la['u]d, Pg. alaude; all fr. Ar. al'?d; al the + '?d wood, timber, trunk or branch of a tree, staff, stick, wood of aloes, lute or harp.] (Mus.) A stringed instrument formerly much in use. It consists of four parts, namely, the table or front, the body, having nine or ten ribs or "sides," arranged like the divisions of a melon, the neck, which has nine or ten frets or divisions, and the head, or cross, in which the screws for tuning are inserted. The strings are struck with the right hand, and with the left the stops are pressed.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
Lute
Lute\, v. i. To sound, as a lute. Piers Plowman. Keats.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
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