(v. i.) To make a kind of musical sound, or series of sounds, by forcing the breath through a small orifice formed by contracting the lips; also, to emit a similar sound, or series of notes, from the mouth or beak, as birds.
(v. i.) To make a shrill sound with a wind or steam instrument, somewhat like that made with the lips; to blow a sharp, shrill tone.
(v. i.) To sound shrill, or like a pipe; to make a sharp, shrill sound; as, a bullet whistles through the air.
(v. t.) To form, utter, or modulate by whistling; as, to whistle a tune or an air.
(v. t.) To send, signal, or call by a whistle.
(v. i.) A sharp, shrill, more or less musical sound, made by forcing the breath through a small orifice of the lips, or through or instrument which gives a similar sound; the sound used by a sportsman in calling his dogs; the shrill note of a bird; as, the sharp whistle of a boy, or of a boatswain's pipe; the blackbird's mellow whistle.
(v. i.) The shrill sound made by wind passing among trees or through crevices, or that made by bullet, or the like, passing rapidly through the air; the shrill noise (much used as a signal, etc.) made by steam or gas escaping through a small orifice, or impinging against the edge of a metallic bell or cup.
(v. i.) An instrument in which gas or steam forced into a cavity, or against a thin edge, produces a sound more or less like that made by one who whistles through the compressed lips; as, a child's whistle; a boatswain's whistle; a steam whistle (see Steam whistle, under Steam).
(v. i.) The mouth and throat; -- so called as being the organs of whistling.
Example Sentences:
(1) I did not speak to Diego at the final whistle, losing so late in the game was too big a disappointment, especially when Romelu Lukaku was surrounded by three or four defenders and still scored.” That was something Martínez could agree with.
(2) But minutes after the final whistle, 76% of respondents to a Corriere della Sport online poll were blaming Lippi and in the post-match press conference the man himself was quick to take the blame, appearing to be anxiously awaiting the moment he can disappear quietly from the scene to be replaced by the Fiorentina manager, Cesare Prandelli, a switch decided with little fuss and no media debate just before the World Cup.
(3) There are currently five separate criminal prosecutions relating to official leaks under way, a surge in activity that national security experts say is a worrying attack on the rights of whistle blowers.
(4) The audience, energised by an early heckler who was swiftly ejected from the hall at Jerusalem's International Convention Centre, received Obama's message with cheers, applause, whistles and several standing ovations.
(5) Adrian Bailey, the BIS committee chair, said TTIP had the potential to help the UK economy and criticised the “dog whistle” politics used by both supporters and opponents of the deal.
(6) At the final whistle there were raucous celebrations in Gijón's El Molinón stadium and all over Algeria.
(7) The final whistle blew and virtually all the Scarborough fans ran on to the pitch to 'celebrate'.
(8) Some information regarding possible meaning of the whistles was obtained.
(9) 29 min: There have been so many offside decisions in this game, the referee's whistle is currently more aurally intrusive than the vuvuzelas.
(10) Come on.” The pair, who share a strained relationship born of regular clashes since Mourinho arrived in English football in 2004, did not acknowledge each other on the final whistle, once Chelsea had reasserted their five-point lead at the top of the table and condemned Arsenal to a first league loss of the season.
(11) As the final whistle blew, Wenger, suddenly wreathed in smiles, hugged his staff, players and even Alan Pardew, a managerial rival with whom he has not always enjoyed the most cordial of technical area relations.
(12) 5.56pm GMT 26 min: Shaw whistles a low ball into the Liverpool area from the left.
(13) Only five major types of whistle emissions were recorded, all stereotyped and each characteristic of the animal emitting it.
(14) The USS Nitze shot warning flares, sounded its whistles and attempted unsuccessfully to communicate with the Iranian boats during Tuesday’s incident, the official told AFP on condition of anonymity.
(15) This article describes the use of the whistle and presents information collected from a nine-month prospective study of the endotracheal tube whistle.
(16) 50% In the dog-whistle rhetoric of Hammond and Theresa May, the archetypal contemporary migrant in Europe is from Africa.
(17) Steel bands, choirs and dancers performed while the mass of people, many with their children, blew horns and whistles as they passed alongside parliament.
(18) Manning and Snowden cannot have been the only US officials to have pondered blowing a whistle on data abuse.
(19) Hodgson’s methods, especially towards the end, were viewed as dated and a coach, as Roy Keane put it brashly a few weeks ago in a slightly different context, “who’s got the whistle around his neck and a clipboard” appears sought after.
(20) Southampton would have deserved the victory and it said everything that, when the whistle did go, the Midtjylland supporters punched the air and cheered loudly.
Whistler
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, whistles, or produces or a whistling sound.
(n.) The ring ousel.
(n.) The widgeon.
(n.) The golden-eye.
(n.) The golden plover and the gray plover.
(n.) The hoary, or northern, marmot (Arctomys pruinosus).
(n.) The whistlefish.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Reasoned criticism of Cook is fair enough, but he has a vastly inexperienced team at his disposal (and no matter what one may think of the absence of the Whistler, Cook can hardly be held responsible for the loss of Trott, Swann, Tremlett and Finn), so why not give him until the end of the Summer?"
(2) Gwen had set off for Paris in the autumn of 1898 and studied at the Academie Carmen, a newly opened school run by a one-time model of Whistler's who himself gave two lessons a week.
(3) This pious art lover could have a career in slapstick if she wants, for her comic destruction of a work of art bears comparison with Rowan Atkinson giving Whistler's Mother a badly drawn cartoon face in the film Bean .
(4) • snooc.ski , two-hour lesson £26 Book it: Peak Retreats has a week in a four-star self-catering apartment, based on five sharing, including Eurotunnel crossing, for £214pp Baseboarding, Whistler, Canada Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Bromley Sports Limited Given that snowboarding, which is essentially surfing on snow, was invented over 40 years ago, it’s surprising that it’s taken so long for someone to introduce front-lying bodyboarding to the slopes.
(5) • 0871 662 9521, untravelledromania.com Whistler, Canada Families travelling at Easter can stay at a hostel walking distance from the slopes in Whistler.
(6) "The Whistler's Largesse (see your 18th minute) would be a great title for an 19th-century Cornish smuggler novel," suggests Nicola Barr.
(7) When the attention-seeking Whistler sued for libel, the action landed Ruskin back in court.
(8) Under Whistler's influence, Gwen developed her technique - a mix of her intuitive and his scientific methods.
(9) Steve Whistler (@stevewhistler) Perhaps the #australiansforcoal campaign only had one KPI: 'Trend position'.
(10) missMM has suggested a slew around Logan Square and the West Loop: The Whistler ("a bar, gallery, record label, and venue") Scofflaw (a gin bar), Three Dots and A Dash (tiki!
(11) Whistler won, but was awarded risible damages of one farthing.
(12) While it does have paintings by American-born European artists such as Copley and Whistler, the only truly American work it owns is a minor, rarely displayed work by George Inness called The Delaware Water Gap that was transferred to it from Tate in 1956.
(13) We heard fiddlers and guitarists, banjo-pickers and penny whistlers.
(14) However England can't take advantage of the whistler's largesse.
(15) • She once blacked out during a training run in Whistler.
(16) Despite having been the prophet of his age, the best art critic this country has ever produced, the patron of the pre-Raphaelites and of Turner, his legacy has been reduced to one of a bearded reactionary who, in 1878, accused James Whistler of “flinging a pot of paint in the public’s face” when confronted with the American painter’s avant-garde nocturnes .
(17) Initially, Weston had been a leading exponent of pictorialism – a kind of arty, romanticised style of portraiture that took its cue from the Victorian painters like Whistler.
(18) The collection includes Pollock's Mural on Indian Red Ground, considered to be one of his most important works and estimated to be worth more than $250m, as well as important pieces by Picasso, Van Gogh, Monet, Pissarro, Renoir, Gauguin, Toulouse-Lautrec, Degas, Whistler and Marcel Duchamp.
(19) Ukip's Nigel Farage and Cameron's Australian lobbyist and chief dog-whistler Lynton Crosby are driving the Tories ever further to the right.
(20) With the new sport of baseboarding, offered in Whistler for the first time this winter, riders lie on an aerodynamic board to descend soft snowy pistes with plenty of room to manoeuvre.