whistle

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  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. countable,uncountable
    — A lovely crisp exhaust: a feeling of almost unlimited power combined with complete freedom of running: and, to crown it all, a most melodious and wholly American chime whistle—these were my immediate impressions as we stormed rapidly out of Göttingen, intent on winning back some of the lost time.
  2. An act of whistling. countable,uncountable
  3. A shrill, high-pitched sound made by whistling. countable,uncountable
    — We expressed our readiness, and in ten minutes were in the station wagon, rolling rapidly down the long drive, for it was then after nine.[…]As we reached the lodge we heard the whistle, and we backed up against one side of the platform as the train pulled up at the other.
  4. Any high-pitched sound similar to the sound made by whistling. countable,uncountable
    — the whistle of the wind in the trees
  5. A suit (from whistle and flute). Cockney,countable,slang,uncountable
    — We soldiers changed into our No.1 dress uniforms, Sid into his best whistle and we set off for the church.
  6. The mouth and throat; so called as being the organs of whistling. colloquial,countable,uncountable
    — Let's […] drink the other cup to wet our whistles.
动词 v.
  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. ambitransitive
    — Never whistle at a funeral.
  2. To make a similar sound by forcing air through a musical instrument or a pipe etc. ambitransitive
    — The steam train whistled as it passed by.
  3. To move in such a way as to create a whistling sound. intransitive
    — A bullet whistled past.
  4. To send, signal, or call by a whistle. transitive
  5. To request admission to Opus Dei, a Roman Catholic organization. intransitive,slang

词形变化

whistles plural whistles present,singular,third-person whistling participle,present whistled participle,past whistled past

词汇关系

相关词
Whistle in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

词源

词源 1
From Middle English whistel, whistil, whistle, from Old English hwistle, from the verb (see below).
词源 2
From Middle English whistlen, from Old English hwistlan, hwistlian (“to whistle”), from Proto-West Germanic *hwistlōn, from Proto-Germanic *hwistlōną (“to make a hissing sound”). Cognate with Swedish vissla (“to whistle”), Icelandic hvísla (“to whisper”), Russian свистеть (svistetʹ, “to whistle”).
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