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Examples of fluting
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These can then be altered by impressing, bulging, carving, fluting, and incising.
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The shaft is sometimes articulated with vertical hollow grooves known as fluting.
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This corrugator will consume significant volumes of recycled testliner and fluting.
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Now and then came a hollow fluting noise, like someone blowing across a bottle top.
From the guardian.co.uk
Here the slight fluting of the stone columns seems almost excessive ornament.
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The most striking difference was the absence of the characteristic fluting.
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A shrieking, piping, fluting, shrill and spiteful reversion to ad hominem.
From the economist.com
In spring and summer house finches fill our gardens with a wonderful, fluting melody.
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During the Hellenistic period, Corinthian columns were sometimes built without fluting.
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- Flute: a groove or furrow in cloth etc (particularly a shallow concave groove on the shaft of a column)
- Fluting in architecture refers to the shallow grooves running vertically along a surface.
- In firearms terminology, fluting refers to the removal of material from a cylindrical surface, usually creating grooves. This is most often the barrel of a rifle, though it may also refer to the cylinder of a revolver or the bolt of a bolt action rifle. ...
- Fluting is a process of differential weathering and erosion by which an exposed well-jointed coarse-grained rock such as granite or gneiss, develops a corrugated surface of flutes; especially the formation of small-scale ridges and depressions by wave action.
- Containerboard, also referred to as CCM (corrugated case material), is a type of paperboard specially manufactured for the production of corrugated board. The term encompasses both linerboard and corrugating medium (or fluting), the two types of paper that make up corrugated board. ...
- A decoration consisting of parallel, normally vertical, flutes (grooves) incised into the surface; The act of making such grooves
- (fluted) Decorated with flutes; grooved; (slang) drunk, intoxicated
- (fluted) of a column or pillar, carved with closely spaced parallel grooves cut vertically.
- (FLUTED) Surfaces worked with thin parallel grooves, mostly on dials or case bezels.
