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

1. intransitive 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.
2. intransitive 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.
3. intransitive verb. To sound shrill, or like a pipe; to make a sharp, shrill sound; as, a bullet whistles through the air.
4. transitive verb. To form, utter, or modulate by whistling; as, to whistle a tune or an air.
5. transitive verb. To send, signal, or call by a whistle.
6. intransitive 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.
7. intransitive 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.
8. intransitive 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).
9. intransitive verb. The mouth and throat; -- so called as being the organs of whistling.
10. noun. an inexpensive fipple flute

    Synonyms: pennywhistle

11. noun. acoustic device that forces air or steam against an edge or into a cavity and so produces a loud shrill sound
12. noun. a small wind instrument that produces a whistling sound by blowing into it
13. noun. the act of signalling (e.g., summoning) by whistling or blowing a whistle

    "the whistle signalled the end of the game"

    Synonyms: whistling

14. noun. the sound made by something moving rapidly or by steam coming out of a small aperture

    Synonyms: whistling

15. verb. utter or express by whistling

    "She whistled a melody"

16. verb. give a signal by whistling

    "She whistled for her maid"

17. verb. make a whining, ringing, or whistling sound

    "the kettle was singing"

    "the bullet sang past his ear"

    Synonyms: sing

18. verb. move with, or as with, a whistling sound

    "The bullets whistled past him"

19. verb. move, send, or bring as if by whistling

    "Her optimism whistled away these worries"

20. verb. make whistling sounds

    "He lay there, snoring and whistling"

Synonyms

pennywhistle, whistling, sing

Common word forms

whistled, whistler, whistles, whistling, whistleable

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