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signal+whistle

  • 1 whistle

    ['wisl] 1. verb
    1) (to make a shrill, often musical, sound by forcing one's breath between the lips or teeth: Can you whistle?; He whistled to attract my attention; He whistled a happy tune.) žvižgati
    2) (to make such a sound with a device designed for this: The electric kettle's whistling; The referee whistled for half-time.) (za)piskati
    3) (to make a shrill sound in passing through the air: The bullet whistled past his head.) žvižgati
    4) ((of the wind) to blow with a shrill sound.) žvižgati
    2. noun
    1) (the sound made by whistling: He gave a loud whistle to his friend across the road.) žvižg
    2) (a musical pipe designed to make a whistling noise.) piščal
    3) (an instrument used by policemen, referees etc to make a whistling noise: The referee blew his whistle at the end of the game.) piščalka
    * * *
    I [wisl]
    noun
    žvižg, pisk, žvižganje, signal z žvižgom; piščalka; colloquially grlo, goltanec
    whistle stop American majhna postaja; volilna turneja (za predsedništvo)
    to blow a whistle — zapiskati, zažvižgati
    to pay (dear) for one's whistle figuratively drago plačati (svojo) šalo
    to wet one's whistle — zmočiti si grlo, napiti se
    II [wisl]
    1.
    intransitive verb
    (za)žvižgati, požvižgavati; piskati na piščal(ko); dati znak z žvižgom; vršeti (veter), šumeti, žvižgati (krogla);
    2.
    transitive verb
    žvižgati; music igrati na flavto; poklicati z žvižgom
    to whistle for a wind nautical žvižgati za veter (pri brezvetrju)
    you may whistle for it colloquially figuratively na to lahko še dolgo čakaš
    to whistle s.o. — požvižgati komu
    to whistle back, to whistle up — poklicati z žvižgom, požvižgati (komu)
    to whistle off colloquially popihati jo

    English-Slovenian dictionary > whistle

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  • whistle — [hwis′əl, wis′əl] vi. whistled, whistling [ME whistlen < OE hwistlian: for IE base see WHISPER] 1. a) to make a clear, shrill sound or note, or a series of these, by forcing breath between the teeth or through a narrow opening made by… …   English World dictionary

  • Whistle — Whis tle, n. [AS. hwistle a pipe, flute, whistle. See {Whistle}, v. i.] [1913 Webster] 1. A sharp, shrill, more or less musical sound, made by forcing the breath through a small orifice of the lips, or through or instrument which gives a similar… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Whistle duck — Whistle Whis tle, n. [AS. hwistle a pipe, flute, whistle. See {Whistle}, v. i.] [1913 Webster] 1. A sharp, shrill, more or less musical sound, made by forcing the breath through a small orifice of the lips, or through or instrument which gives a… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Whistle — Whis tle, v. t. [1913 Webster] 1. To form, utter, or modulate by whistling; as, to whistle a tune or an air. [1913 Webster] 2. To send, signal, or call by a whistle. [1913 Webster] He chanced to miss his dog; we stood still till he had whistled… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • whistle-stop campaign — [whistle stop campaign] noun a political campaign in which a politician makes short stops at many different towns. The expression was first used in the US, where small American towns were called ‘whistle stops’ because trains only stopped at them …   Useful english dictionary

  • whistle-stop — ☆ whistle stop [hwis′əl stäp΄, wis′əl stäp΄ ] n. 1. a small town, orig. one at which a train stopped only upon signal 2. a brief stop in a small town as part of a tour, esp. in a political campaign; orig., such a stop in which the candidate spoke …   English World dictionary

  • whistle — [v] make sharp, shrill sound blare, blast, fife, flute, hiss, pipe, shriek, signal, skirl, sound, toot, tootle, trill, warble, wheeze, whine, whiz*; concepts 65,77 …   New thesaurus

  • whistle — [c]/ˈwɪsəl/ (say wisuhl) verb (whistled, whistling) –verb (i) 1. to make a kind of clear musical sound, or a series of such sounds, by the forcible expulsion of the breath through a small orifice formed by contracting the lips, or through the… …  

  • signal — Synonyms and related words: ALGOL, COBOL, CRT spot, DM display, Doppler signal, EDP, FORTRAN, IF signal, IM display, RF echoes, Roman candle, Teletype, Wirephoto, aid to navigation, alarm, alert, alphabetic data, alphanumeric code, amber light,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • whistle */ — I UK [ˈwɪs(ə)l] / US / US [ˈhwɪs(ə)l] noun [countable] Word forms whistle : singular whistle plural whistles 1) a small metal or plastic object that you put in your mouth and blow to make a high sound blow a whistle: The referee blew the whistle… …   English dictionary

  • whistle — I. noun Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English, from Old English hwistle; akin to Old Norse hvīsla to whisper Date: before 12th century 1. a. a small wind instrument in which sound is produced by the forcible passage of breath through …   New Collegiate Dictionary

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