Dictionary Entry
whistle
whistle is a 7-letter English word with 20 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 13 · 20 senses
Definitions
- 1intransitive verb
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.
- 2intransitive verb
To make a shrill sound with a wind or steam instrument, somewhat like that made with the lips; to blow a sharp, shrill tone.
- 3intransitive verb
To sound shrill, or like a pipe; to make a sharp, shrill sound; as, a bullet whistles through the air.
- 4transitive verb
To form, utter, or modulate by whistling; as, to whistle a tune or an air.
- 5transitive verb
To send, signal, or call by a whistle.
- 6intransitive verb
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 boatswain's pipe; the blackbird's mellow whistle.
- 7intransitive verb
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.
- 8intransitive verb
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 child's whistle; a boatswain's whistle; a steam whistle (See Steam whistle, under Steam).
- 9intransitive verb
The mouth and throat; -- so called as being the organs of whistling.
- 10noun
an inexpensive fipple flute
Synonyms
- 11noun
acoustic device that forces air or steam against an edge or into a cavity and so produces a loud shrill sound
- 12noun
a small wind instrument that produces a whistling sound by blowing into it
- 13noun
the act of signalling (e.g., summoning) by whistling or blowing a whistle
"the whistle signalled the end of the game"
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- 14noun
the sound made by something moving rapidly or by steam coming out of a small aperture
Synonyms
- 15verb
utter or express by whistling
"She whistled a melody"
- 16verb
give a signal by whistling
"She whistled for her maid"
- 17verb
make a whining, ringing, or whistling sound
"the kettle was singing"
"the bullet sang past his ear"
Synonyms
- 18verb
move with, or as with, a whistling sound
"The bullets whistled past him"
- 19verb
move, send, or bring as if by whistling
"Her optimism whistled away these worries"
- 20verb
make whistling sounds
"He lay there, snoring and whistling"
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