whistle
/ˈwɪs(ə)l/
- Syllables
- 2 syllables
- Stress
- 1st syllable stress
- Vowel
- Schwa vowel
- Ending
- Final e often stays silent
whis - tle -> whistle
(n) ဝီစီမှုတ်ခြင်း။ (v) လေချွန်သည်။ဥဩဆွဲသည်။ဝီစီမှုတ်သည်။
၁။ (က) လေချွန်သံ။ Bob gave a long low whistle. ❍ The crowd drowned his speech with whistles and jeers. (ခ) (ရထား၊ သင်္ဘော စသည်) ဥဩသံ။ the shrill/piercing whistle of a steam engine. (ဂ) (လေချွန်သံ ကဲ့သို့) ငှက်အော်သံ။ See also wolf-whistle
၂။ (က) ဝီစီ။ The referee blew (a short blast on) his whistle. (ခ) ဝီစီသံ။ The whistle went for the end of the match.
v
၁။ (က) ရွီှခနဲအသံပြုသည်။ ဝီစီမှုတ်သည်။ ဥဩဆွဲသည်။ She whistled in amazement. ❍ A train whistled in the distance. (ခ) လေချွန်သည်။ He whistled the national anthem as he walked along. (ဂ) လေချွန်သံပေးသည်။ She whistled for her dog. ❍ He whistled to his friend to come out of his hiding-place. ❍ The crowd booed and whistled its disapproval.
၂။ ဝှီးခနဲ၊ ရွှစ်ခနဲ၊ ရွီှခနဲ မြည်၍ ဖြတ်သွားသည်။ A bullet whistled past his head. ❍ The wind whistled through a crack in the door.
❏ whistle for sth [PHRV ] (infml ) ကမ္ဘာလဆန်းကျမှပဲ ရမယ်။ If he wants his money now he'll have to whistle for it — I'm broke!
❏ whistle in the dark [IDM ] မကြောက်ဟန်ဆောင်သည်။
❏ whistle-stop n
၁။ (US ) အချက်ပြမှ ရထားရပ်ပေးသော ဘူတာရုံ ကလေး။
၂။ အရပ်အနားများသော ခရီး။ be/go on a whistle-stop tour of the country.
- [blow a whistle] : The referee blew the whistle for half-time.
- [a whistle goes/sounds] : The whistle went for full-time.
- [a whistle blows] : The whistle blew as the train prepared to leave.
- Loud cheers and whistles greeted the team.
- [give/let out a whistle] : Darren gave a low whistle.
- The ship’s shrill whistle
- Play stopped when we heard the whistle.
- [the final whistle] : He scored again just seconds before the final whistle.
- The skylark’s piercing whistle
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