whine
Pronunciation: [hwain]
Average Rank: 16120
Chinese Translation (中文翻译)
Source: ECDICTn. 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:
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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
#8359Conversational and colloquial usage
Percentile: 16.4%
(Top 16.4% most frequent)
Out of 10,000 words in the TV & Movie Scripts corpus