whine

Pronunciation: [hwain]

Average Rank: 16120

Chinese Translation (中文翻译)
Source: ECDICT

n. 哀叫声, 嘎嘎声, 哀鸣 vi. 哭诉, 嘎嘎响, 发呜呜声 vt. 哀诉

Detailed Explanations:
  • v. move with a whining sound
  • v. make a high-pitched, screeching noise
  • v. complain whiningly
ECDICT Dictionary Data
Collins Rating:
Difficulty: ACADEMIC
Exam Tags: gre

Word Forms:
Present Participle: whining
Past: whined
Plural: whines
3rd Person: whines
Past Participle: whined

Word Frequency Rankings

TV & Movie Scripts
#8359

Conversational and colloquial usage

Percentile: 16.4% (Top 16.4% most frequent)
16.4%

Out of 10,000 words in the TV & Movie Scripts corpus