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whistle Meaning, Definition, Pronunciation, Grammar & Synonyms❤️

0 to make a high sound by forcing air through a small hole or passage, especially through the lips, or through a special device held to the lips:
- He whistled as he worked.
- On the days when she wore a skirt the men on the building site would whistle at her.
- Someone was whistling Beatles tunes outside my window.
- The referee whistled and the game was over.
- She heard the wind whistling through the trees and the howl of a distant wolf.
- I stepped out of the building and immediately a bullet whistled past my head.
- The birds were whistling in the early morning quiet.
1 the sound made by someone or something whistling:
- I recognized my father's tuneless whistle.
- It sounded like the whistle of an old-fashioned steam train.
- She listened to the whistle of the wind through the trees.
- The referee blew his whistle for half-time.
2 to make a musical sound by forcing the breath through a small passage between the lips or through a special device:
- [ I ] I whistled to my dog and she came running back.
- [ I ] fig.The wind whistled through the trees.
3 A whistle is also a device that makes a loud, high sound when you blow into it.

He whistled to call his dogs.
She always whistles in the bath.
He was whistling a merry tune.
Then we heard the whistles, and we again told the nurse, and she came and opened the door.
The corpora comprised twenty spoken and whistled messages.
Each of these whistled proverbs was followed by the spoken version, and each word was also whistled independently.
Simple apparatus for imitating animal sounds from the late eighteenth century onwards featured string-pulled miniature bellows; mouth-blown bird calls and whistles are, of course, much more ancient.
Pigeon whistles make aerial orchestra.