Whistle
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Etymology
- Middle English whistlen; Anglo-Saxon hwistlan.
Verb
to whistle (Inflected forms: whistled, whistling, whistles)
- to make a shrill, high-pitched sound by forcing air through the mouth. To produce a whistling sound, restrictions to the flow of air are created using the teeth, tongue and lips.
- to move in such a way as to create a whistling sound.
- A bullet whistled past.
Translations
- Breton: c'hwitellat (1,2)
- Catalan: xiular
- Dutch: fluiten (1,2)
- Finnish: viheltää
- French: siffler
- Indonesian: bersiul
- Polish: gwizdać, zagwizdać
- Russian: свистеть
Noun
whistle
- a device designed to be placed in the mouth in order to make a whistling sound.
- a shrill, high-pitched sound made by whistling.
- any high-pitched sound similar to the sound made by whistling.
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