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whistle
English
- 🔊 acoustic device that forces air or steam against an edge or into a cavity and so produces a loud shrill sound
- 🔊 a small wind instrument that produces a whistling sound by blowing into it
- 🔊 the act of signalling (e.g., summoning) by whistling or blowing a whistle“the whistle signalled the end of the game”
- 🔊 the sound made by something moving rapidly or by steam coming out of a small aperture
- 🔊 an inexpensive fipple flute
- 🔊 utter or express by whistling“She whistled a melody”
- 🔊 give a signal by whistling“She whistled for her maid”
- 🔊 make a whining, ringing, or whistling sound“the kettle was singing”
- 🔊 move with, or as with, a whistling sound“The bullets whistled past him”
- 🔊 move, send, or bring as if by whistling“Her optimism whistled away these worries”
- 🔊 make whistling sounds“He lay there, snoring and whistling”
Spanish
- 🔊 chiflato whistle
- 🔊 chifle whistle
- 🔊 pito whistle
- 🔊 chiflar to whistle
- 🔊 silbar to whistle
- 🔊 pitido whistle, beep (sound)
- 🔊 pitar to whistle, buzz, beep, honk, puff
- 🔊 silbo whistle, whistling (sound, act of whistling)