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whistle
Whistle tarimas:
/'wisl/
Whistle audio:
Žodžio paaiškinimas anglų kalba:
- verb-intransitive: To produce a clear musical sound by forcing air through the teeth or through an aperture formed by pursing the lips.
- verb-intransitive: To produce a clear, shrill, sharp musical sound by blowing on or through a device.
- verb-intransitive: To produce a high-pitched sound when moving swiftly through the air: The stone whistled past my head.
- verb-intransitive: To produce a high-pitched sound by the rapid movement of air through an opening or past an obstruction: Wind whistled through the cracks in the windows.
- verb-intransitive: To emit a shrill, sharp, high-pitched cry, as some birds and other animals.
- verb-transitive: To produce by whistling: whistle a tune.
- verb-transitive: To summon, signal, or direct by whistling.
- verb-transitive: To cause to move with a whistling noise.
- noun: A small wind instrument for making whistling sounds by means of the breath.
- noun: A device for making whistling sounds by means of forced air or steam: a factory whistle.
- noun: A sound produced by a whistling device or by whistling through the lips.
- noun: A whistling sound, as of an animal or a projectile.
- noun: The act of whistling.
- noun: A whistling sound used to summon or command.
- idiom: blow the whistle Slang To expose a wrongdoing in the hope of bringing it to a halt: an attorney who blew the whistle on governmental corruption.
- idiom: whistle in the dark To attempt to keep one's courage up.
Lietuviškos reikšmės:
- to give a whistle of surprise švilptelėti iš nustebimo 2 švilpukas
- švilpynė
- to blow the whistle švilpti švilpyne to blow the whistle on smb įskųsti ką
- to blow the whistle on smth atskleisti ką
- to wet one’s whistle juok. pra
- švilpimas
- švilpesys