0 US spelling of whirr
1 (esp. of machines) to make a soft, continuous sound like a wheel turning very quickly:
I could hear the dishwasher whirring in the kitchen.
My laptop made lots of tedious whirring noises during a painstaking scroll across profiles.
They read that sort of thing as fast as a night-hawk will whir.
My microphones were situated directly below the edge of the bridge, which resolved and projected the whirring sound of the truck traffic more clearly than any other listening location.
There would be lots of whirring and clanking.
The noise of helicopters is unpleasant, whirring and penetrating, and many of my constituents find it thoroughly offensive and irritating.
The infernal machine is alleged to have made a loud whirring noise but to have produced no other result.
The word processor has whirred and the phrase has entered into the folklore of the debate.
Indeed, my fax and e-mail machines seem to have been whirring overactively today, as, no doubt, have his.
