lute

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A fretted stringed instrument, similar to a guitar, having a bowl shaped body or soundbox
Thick sticky clay or cement used to close up a hole or gap, especially to make something air-tight
To fix or fasten something with lute

To protect everything till it dried, a man luted a big blue paper cap from a cracker, with meringue-cream, low down on Jevon's forehead.

{n} a soft clay, a stringed musical instrument
{v} to close or cover with chymist's clay
{f} play a lute; seal holes with putty; smooth with a trowel
plucked string instrument; the instrument most widely used in the 16th century
A stringed instrument with a pear-shaped body and fretted fingerboard, played by plucking with the fingers The lute is an ancient instrument of Eastern origin It was popular in Europe from the Middle Ages to the 18th-century
A lute refers to anyone of a variety of plucked stringed instruments of European descent popular from the 16 to 18th centuries Its oblong, rounded and pear-shaped body has a flat soundboard on which the strings are attached to its fretted neck Normally, the lute has five sets of double strings plus a single, longer highest string Various numbers and configurations of the strings have existed over history Other types of lutes include the small mandora and a bass lute, pandora, and the very largest lutes, the chitarrone and the Theorbo
{i} stringed instrument with a pear-shaped body and a long fretted neck; sealing compound; tool for spreading and smoothing concrete
A stringed instrument formerly much in use
Plucked-string instrument of Middle Eastern origin, popular in western Europe from the late Middle Ages to the eighteenth century
chordophone consisting of a plucked instrument having a pear-shaped body, a usually bent neck, and a fretted fingerboard a substance for packing a joint or coating a porous surface to make it impervious to gas or liquid
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
It consists of four parts, namely, the table or front, the body, having nine or ten ribs or "sides,"
To close or seal with lute; as, to lute on the cover of a crucible; to lute a joint
To sound, as a lute
A fretted stringed instrument similar to a guitar having a bowl shaped body or soundbox
two pieces of clay, often separate halves of a vessel, are joined by pinching the edges together The join is smoothed over using a spatula
A packing ring, as of rubber, for fruit jars, etc
a substance for packing a joint or coating a porous surface to make it impervious to gas or liquid
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
an ancient string instrument played by plucking the strings
chordophone consisting of a plucked instrument having a pear-shaped body, a usually bent neck, and a fretted fingerboard
A straight-edged piece of wood for striking off superfluous clay from mold
when exposed to heat; called also luting
The strings are struck with the right hand, and with the left the stops are pressed
To play on a lute, or as on a lute
A lute is a stringed instrument with a rounded body that is quite like a guitar and is played with the fingers. Plucked stringed instrument popular in 16th-17th-century Europe. It originated from the Arab d, which reached Europe in the 13th century. Like the d, the lute has a deep pear-shaped body with an ornamental soundhole, a fretted neck with a bent-back pegbox, and strings hitched to a bridge glued to the instrument's belly. In later years it acquired several unstopped bass strings. It became the preferred instrument for cultivated amateur musicians and acquired an extensive literature of song accompaniments and solo and consort music
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
lutes
plural of lute
luting
a substance for packing a joint or coating a porous surface to make it impervious to gas or liquid
luting
{i} material used to pack joints or seal poriferous surface to make it impenetrable to gas or liquid
luting
See Lute, a cement
lute

    Turkish pronunciation

    lut

    Pronunciation

    /ˈlo͞ot/ /ˈluːt/

    Etymology

    [ 'lüt ] (noun.) 13th century. From Middle French lut (modern luth), from Old French leüt, probably from Old Provençal laüt, from Arabic العود (al-‘ūd, “wood”) (probably representing an Andalusian Arabic or North African pronunciation).

    Tenses

    lutes, luting, luted
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