whistle

Significado (Inglés)

Noun

1. 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. An act of whistling.
3. A shrill, high-pitched sound made by whistling.
4. Any high-pitched sound similar to the sound made by whistling.
5. (slang) A suit (from whistle and flute).
6. (colloquial) The mouth and throat; so called as being the organs of whistling.

Verb

1. 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.
2. To make a similar sound by forcing air through a musical instrument or a pipe etc.
3. To move in such a way as to create a whistling sound.
4. To send, signal, or call by a whistle.
5. (slang) To request admission to Opus Dei, a Roman Catholic organization.

Conceptos

silbar

silbato

chiflar

pito

pitido

pitar

silbo

rechiflar

silbido

flauta metalica irlandesa

flauta metálica irlandesa

silbato irlandes

pitada

cantar

chifle

gorjear

laringe

chiflido

rechifla

chiflato

trinar las aves

pip

zurriar

Sinónimos

whistling

hiss

pipe

horn

siren

hooter

whizz

flute

🪈

catcall

sing

tinkle

jingle

hoot

sizzle

pennywhistle

blow

hum

fizz

whiz

whiffle

wheeze

toot

blow a whistle

piping

chirp

roar

growl

sweep

whistling sound

buzz

harmonica

fife

whine

singing

tin whistle

skim

sough

sound

🔉

squeak

squeal

alarm

straw

strum

swab

throat

trill

trumpet

🎺

tweet

twitter

whinny

whir

whirr

whisk

whisper

whistleblow

wind instrument

zip

make music

make sound

sibilation

whistle to

swing out

syren

give a whistle

sound indistinctly

blow a toy-trumpet

squealing

bird

🐦

blip

blowpipe

boo

bray

career

caterwaul

cheep

chink

chirk

chirrup

croak

drone

foghorn

graze

grunt

hailer

heckle

jeer

larynx

lute

mew

murmur

music

🎶

neigh

pass over

peep

phut

ping

post

puff

rake

roaring

signal

Con guión como

whist‧le

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/wɪsl̩/

Etimología (Inglés)

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