| inglés > español | |
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| whistle | |
| 1. s. Silbato. | |
| 2. s. Silbido. | |
| inglés > inglés | |
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| whistle | |
| 1. s. 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. s. An act of whistling. | |
| 3. s. A shrill, high-pitched sound made by whistling. | |
| 4. s. Any high-pitched sound similar to the sound made by whistling. | |
| the whistle of the wind in the trees | |
| 5. s. (Cockney rhyming slang) A suit (from whistle and flute). | |
| 6. s. (colloquial) The mouth and throat; so called as being the organs of whistling. | |
| 7. v. 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. | |
| She was whistling a happy tune. | |
| 8. v. To make a similar sound by forcing air through a musical instrument or a pipe etc. | |
| The stream train whistled as it passed by. | |
| 9. v. (intransitive) To move in such a way as to create a whistling sound. | |
| A bullet whistled past. | |
| 10. v. To send, signal, or call by a whistle. | |
| español > inglés | |
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| silbato | |
| 1. n-m. whistle (instrument) | |
| 2. n-m. whistle (sound) | |
