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LUTE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("lute" is a kind of...):

chordophone (a stringed instrument of the group including harps, lutes, lyres, and zithers)

Meronyms (parts of "lute"):

fingerboard (a narrow strip of wood on the neck of some stringed instruments (violin or cello or guitar etc) where the strings are held against the wood with the fingers)

Derivation:

lutanist; lutenist; lutist (a musician who plays the lute)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

lute; luting

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("lute" is a kind of...):

sealing material (any substance used to seal joints or fill cracks in a porous surface)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Present simple (first person singular and plural, second person singular and plural, third person plural) of the verb lute

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