Whistle Meaning in Spanish
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• Whistle
Definition & Meaning
- (v. i.) To sound shrill, or like a pipe; to make a sharp, shrill sound; as, a bullet whistles through the air.
- (v. t.) To send, signal, or call by a whistle.
- (v. i.) A sharp, shrill, more or less musical sound, made by forcing the breath through a small orifice of the lips, or through or instrument which gives a similar sound; the sound used by a sportsman in calling his dogs; the shrill note of a bird; as, the sharp whistle of a boy, or of a boatswains pipe; the blackbirds mellow whistle.
- (v. i.) To make a kind of musical sound, or series of sounds, by forcing the breath through a small orifice formed by contracting the lips; also, to emit a similar sound, or series of notes, from the mouth or beak, as birds.
- (v. t.) To form, utter, or modulate by whistling; as, to whistle a tune or an air.
- (v. i.) The mouth and throat; -- so called as being the organs of whistling.
- (v. i.) To make a shrill sound with a wind or steam instrument, somewhat like that made with the lips; to blow a sharp, shrill tone.
- (v. i.) An instrument in which gas or steam forced into a cavity, or against a thin edge, produces a sound more or less like that made by one who whistles through the compressed lips; as, a childs whistle; a boatswains whistle; a steam whistle (see Steam whistle, under Steam).
- (v. i.) The shrill sound made by wind passing among trees or through crevices, or that made by bullet, or the like, passing rapidly through the air; the shrill noise (much used as a signal, etc.) made by steam or gas escaping through a small orifice, or impinging against the edge of a metallic bell or cup.
• Whistled
Definition & Meaning
- (imp. & p. p.) of Whistle
• Whistlefish
Definition & Meaning
- (n.) A gossat, or rockling; -- called also whistler, three-bearded rockling, sea loach, and sorghe.
• Whistler
Definition & Meaning
- (n.) The hoary, or northern, marmot (Arctomys pruinosus).
- (n.) The golden plover and the gray plover.
- (n.) The widgeon.
- (n.) The golden-eye.
- (n.) The ring ousel.
- (n.) The whistlefish.
- (n.) One who, or that which, whistles, or produces or a whistling sound.
• Whistlewing
Definition & Meaning
- (n.) The American golden-eye.
• Whistlewood
Definition & Meaning
- (n.) The moosewood, or striped maple. See Maple.
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