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1 whistle
['wisl] 1. verb1) (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.) žvižgati2) (to make such a sound with a device designed for this: The electric kettle's whistling; The referee whistled for half-time.) (za)piskati3) (to make a shrill sound in passing through the air: The bullet whistled past his head.) žvižgati4) ((of the wind) to blow with a shrill sound.) žvižgati2. noun1) (the sound made by whistling: He gave a loud whistle to his friend across the road.) žvižg2) (a musical pipe designed to make a whistling noise.) piščal3) (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]nounžvižg, pisk, žvižganje, signal z žvižgom; piščalka; colloquially grlo, goltanecwhistle stop American majhna postaja; volilna turneja (za predsedništvo)to blow a whistle — zapiskati, zažvižgatito pay (dear) for one's whistle figuratively drago plačati (svojo) šaloto wet one's whistle — zmočiti si grlo, napiti seII [wisl]1.intransitive verb(za)žvižgati, požvižgavati; piskati na piščal(ko); dati znak z žvižgom; vršeti (veter), šumeti, žvižgati (krogla);2.transitive verbžvižgati; music igrati na flavto; poklicati z žvižgomto whistle for a wind nautical žvižgati za veter (pri brezvetrju)you may whistle for it colloquially figuratively na to lahko še dolgo čakašto whistle s.o. — požvižgati komuto whistle back, to whistle up — poklicati z žvižgom, požvižgati (komu)to whistle off colloquially popihati jo -
2 monsoon
[mon'su:n]1) (a wind that blows in Southern Asia, from the south-west in summer, from the northeast in winter.) monsun2) (the rainy season caused by the southwest monsoon.) deževna doba* * *[mɔnsú:n]nounmonsun (veter); deževna doba -
3 reed
[ri:d]1) (a kind of tall, stiff grass growing on wet or marshy ground: reeds along a river-bank.) trst2) (a thin piece of cane or metal in certain wind instruments (eg the oboe, clarinet) which vibrates and makes a sound when the instrument is played.) jeziček* * *[ri:d]1.nountrst, trstje; poetically trstna piščal, trstenica; figuratively pastirska pesem, pastoralna poezija; music ustnik; cev (orgel); motek, tuljava (za navijanje preje); glavnikast greben pri tkalnih statvahthe reeds plural music piskalabroken reed — zlomljen trst, figuratively oseba ali stvar, na katero se človek ne more zanestito lean upon a broken reed figuratively opirati se na zlomljen trst, opirati se, zanesti se na nestanovitno osebo ali na nezanesljivo stvar;2.transitive verbpokriti (streho) s trstjem; pripraviti (slamo) za prekritje strehe; music opremiti (instrument) z ustnikom -
4 Reed
[ri:d]1) (a kind of tall, stiff grass growing on wet or marshy ground: reeds along a river-bank.) trst2) (a thin piece of cane or metal in certain wind instruments (eg the oboe, clarinet) which vibrates and makes a sound when the instrument is played.) jeziček* * *[ri:d]proper namedruž. ime
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