whistle

Pronunciation: ['hwisl]

Average Rank: 10035

Chinese Translation (中文翻译)
Source: ECDICT

n. 口哨, 汽笛, 啸啸声, 口哨声 vi. 吹口哨, 鸣汽笛, 发嘘嘘声 vt. 用口哨或吹哨传意, 用口哨演奏

Detailed Explanations:
  • n. the sound made by something moving rapidly or by steam coming out of a small aperture
  • n. the act of signalling (e.g., summoning) by whistling or blowing a whistle
  • n. a small wind instrument that produces a whistling sound by blowing into it
  • n. acoustic device that forces air or steam against an edge or into a cavity and so produces a loud shrill sound
ECDICT Dictionary Data
Collins Rating: ★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆
Oxford 3000
Difficulty: BASIC
Exam Tags: gk cet4 cet6 ky ielts gre
Word Forms:
Past: whistled
Present Participle: whistling
Plural: whistles
3rd Person: whistles
Past Participle: whistled

Word Frequency Rankings

TV & Movie Scripts
#4935

Conversational and colloquial usage

Percentile: 50.6% (Top 50.6% most frequent)
50.6%

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

Project Gutenberg
#5170

Classical and literary usage

Percentile: 48.3% (Top 48.3% most frequent)
48.3%

Out of 10,000 words in the Project Gutenberg corpus

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