Definitions for lute
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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:5.0 / 3 votes

1. lute, lutingnoun

   a substance for packing a joint or coating a porous surface to make it impervious to gas or liquid

2. lutenoun

   chordophone consisting of a plucked instrument having a pear-shaped body, a usually bent neck, and a fretted fingerboard

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. LUTEnoun

   Etymology: luth, lut, French.

   1. A stringed instrument of musick.

   Orpheus with his lute made trees,
   And the mountain tops that freeze,
   Bow themselves when he did sing. William Shakespeare, Henry VIII.

   May must be drawn with a sweet and amiable countenance, upon his head a garland of roses, in one hand a lute. Henry Peacham, on Drawing.

   In a sadly pleasing strain
   Let the warbling lute complain. Alexander Pope, St. Cæcilia.

   A lute string will bear a hundred weight without rupture, but at the same time cannot exert its elasticity. Arbuthnot.

   Lands of singing, or of dancing slaves,
   Love-whisp’ring woods, and lute resounding waves. Dunc.

   2. [From lut, French; lutum, Lat.]A composition like clay, with which chemists close up their vessels.

   Some temper lute, some spacious vessels move,
   These furnaces erect, and those approve. Samuel Garth.

2. To Luteverb

   To close with lute, or chemists clay.

   Etymology: from the noun.

   Take a vessel of iron, and let it have a cover of iron well luted, after the manner of the chemists. Francis Bacon, Nat. Hist.

   Iron may be so heated, that, being closely luted in a glass, it shall constantly retain the fire. John Wilkins, Math. Magick.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. lute

   A lute is a stringed musical instrument that has a body shaped like a pear sliced lengthwise. The instrument was popular in the Middle Ages and Renaissance period, and is used in a variety of musical genres. It typically consists of a neck with a fretted fingerboard, a body with a sound hole, and a headstock with tuning pegs. The strings, which can number from six to 24, are plucked with one hand while the other hand stops, or frets, the strings on the fingerboard.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:1.0 / 1 vote

1. Lutenoun

   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. Lutenoun

   a packing ring, as of rubber, for fruit jars, etc

3. Lutenoun

   a straight-edged piece of wood for striking off superfluous clay from mold

4. Luteverb

   to close or seal with lute; as, to lute on the cover of a crucible; to lute a joint

5. Lutenoun

   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

6. Luteverb

   to sound, as a lute. Piers Plowman. Keats

7. Luteverb

   to play on a lute, or as on a lute

8. Etymology: [OF. leut, F. luth; skin to Pr. lat, It. lito, leto, Sp. lad, Pg. alaude; all fr. Ar. ald; al the + d wood, timber, trunk or branch of a tree, staff, stick, wood of aloes, lute or harp.]

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Lute

   Lute can refer generally to any string instrument having the strings running in a plane parallel to the sound table, more specifically to any plucked string instrument with a neck and a deep round back, or more specifically to an instrument from the family of European lutes. The European lute and the modern Near-Eastern oud both descend from a common ancestor via diverging evolutionary paths. The lute is used in a great variety of instrumental music from the Medieval to the late Baroque eras and was the most important instrument for secular music in the Renaissance. It is also an accompanying instrument, especially in vocal works, often realizing a basso continuo or playing a written-out accompaniment. The player of a lute is called a lutenist, lutanist, "lewtist" or lutist, and a maker of lutes is referred to as a luthier.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Lute

   lūt, n. a medieval stringed instrument of music like the guitar.—v.i. to play on the lute.—ns. Lut′anist, Lut′er, Lut′ist, a player on a lute; Lute′string, the string of a lute. [O. Fr. lut (Fr. luth); like Ger. laute, from Ar. al, the, ‛úd, wood, the lute.]

2. Lute

   lūt, n. a composition used to exclude air, as round pipe-joints: a brickmaker's straight-edge scraper: a rubber packing-ring for a jar.—v.t. to close or coat with lute.—adjs. Lutā′rious, Lū′teous, of or like mud.—n. Lutā′tion.—adj. Lū′tose, miry. [L. lutum, from luĕre, to wash.]

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. LUTE

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Lute is ranked #16219 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Lute surname appeared 1,780 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 1 would have the surname Lute.
   
   88.9% or 1,584 total occurrences were White.
   5.5% or 99 total occurrences were Black.
   2.2% or 40 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   2.1% or 39 total occurrences were of two or more races.

Matched Categories

1. • Chordophone
   • Sealing Material

Anagrams for lute »

1. tule

How to pronounce lute?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

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   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of lute in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of lute in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of lute in a Sentence

1. Bhartrihari:

   Hark! here the sound of lute so sweet, And there the voice of wailing loud; Here scholars grave in conclave meet, There howls the brawling drunken crowd; Here, charming maidens full of glee, There, tottering, withered dames we see. Such light! Such shade! I cannot tell, If here we live in heaven or hell.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=lute
2. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=lute
3. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
4. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lute
5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=lute
6. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=lute
7. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html