whistle

noun · verbB1

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noun

Plural noun:

whistles

1.
(countable, uncountable)A device designed to be placed in the mouth and blown, or driven by steam or some other mechanism, to make a whistling sound.
2.
(countable, uncountable)An act of whistling.
3.
(countable, uncountable)A shrill, high-pitched sound made by whistling.
4.
(countable, uncountable)Any high-pitched sound similar to the sound made by whistling.
the whistle of the wind in the trees
5.
(Cockney, countable, slang, uncountable)(Cockney rhyming slang) A suit (from whistle and flute).
6.
(colloquial, countable, uncountable)The mouth and throat; so called as being the organs of whistling.

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verb

V_es/s

whistles

V_ing/Gerund

whistling

V_ed/pp

whistled

1.
(ambitransitive)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.
Never whistle at a funeral.
He was whistling a happy tune.
2.
(ambitransitive)To make a similar sound by forcing air through a musical instrument or a pipe etc.
The steam train whistled as it passed by.
3.
(intransitive)To move in such a way as to create a whistling sound.
A bullet whistled past.
4.
(transitive)To send, signal, or call by a whistle.
5.
(intransitive, slang)(intransitive, Opus Dei, slang) To request admission to Opus Dei, a Roman Catholic organization.

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Nguồn gốc từ

From Middle English whistel, whistil, whistle, from Old English hwistle, from the verb (see below).