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Whistling   /wˈɪslɪŋ/  /hwˈɪslɪŋ/   Listen
Whistling

noun
1.
The sound made by something moving rapidly or by steam coming out of a small aperture.  Synonym: whistle.
2.
The act of whistling a tune.
3.
The act of signalling (e.g., summoning) by whistling or blowing a whistle.  Synonym: whistle.


Whistle

verb
(past & past part. whistled; pres. part. whistling)
1.
Make whistling sounds.
2.
Move with, or as with, a whistling sound.
3.
Utter or express by whistling.
4.
Move, send, or bring as if by whistling.
5.
Make a whining, ringing, or whistling sound.  Synonym: sing.  "The bullet sang past his ear"
6.
Give a signal by whistling.



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"Whistling" Quotes from Famous Books



... was sound asleep at the bottom of his pocket, with the result that the only one who caught the words of warning was—the squirrel. For a squirrel's ears are so sharp that it can even hear the grub whistling to itself inside a rotten nut; ...
— The Extra Day • Algernon Blackwood
... rose that nearly blew our torches out. Caught in the labyrinth of bushes and rocks, the wind angrily shook the branches of the blossoming syringas, then, shaking itself free, it turned back along the glen and flew down the valley, howling, whistling and shrieking, as if all the fiends of the forest together were ...
— From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan • Helena Pretrovna Blavatsky
... saw smoke arise above the tops of the invaded forest-trees. Then he heard the growing clangor of a locomotive's bell, then other whistling and the approaching rumble of steel wheels upon steel rails, the groan of brake shoes gripping, the rattle of contracted couplings, ...
— In Old Kentucky • Edward Marshall and Charles T. Dazey
... and whistling came again, but he did not see any explosion near the chateau. One could not tell much from such a swift and passing sound, but he concluded that it was a German shell replying. He had seen a German battery near the house and it would not ...
— The Forest of Swords - A Story of Paris and the Marne • Joseph A. Altsheler
... for a measurable time, so that they could hear far off a flower-girl's laugh outside Charing Cross, and someone whistling furiously for a taxicab in one of the streets off the Strand. Then the Captain, with a movement so sudden that it might have been passion or play-acting, took Sir Wilson Seymour by ...
— The Wisdom of Father Brown • G. K. Chesterton


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