Whistle

Definition

whistle /'wÇsl/ n ၁။ (က) ေလခြၽန္သံ။ Bob gave a long low whistle. ❍ The crowd drowned his speech with whistles and jeers. (ခ) (ရထား၊ သေဘၤာ စသည္) ဥဩသံ။ the shrill/piercing whistle of a steam engine. (ဂ) (ေလခြၽန္သံ ကဲ့သို႔) ငွက္ေအာ္သံ။ 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) ရီႊခနဲအသံျပဳသည္။ ဝီစီမႈတ္သည္။ ဥဩဆြဲသည္။ She whistled in amazement. ❍ A train whistled in the distance. (ခ) ေလခြၽန္သည္။ He whistled the national anthem as he walked along. (ဂ) ေလခြၽန္သံေပးသည္။ 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။ ဝီွးခနဲ၊ ရႊစ္ခနဲ၊ ရီႊခနဲ ျမည္၍ ျဖတ္သြားသည္။ A bullet whistled past his head. ❍ The wind whistled through a crack in the door. ❏ whistle for sth [ PHRV ] ( infml ) ကမ႓ာလဆန္းက်မွပဲ ရမယ္။ If he wants his money now he'll have to whistle for it — I'm broke! ❏ whistle in the dark [ IDM ] မေၾကာက္ဟန္ေဆာင္သည္။ ❏ whistle-stop n ၁။ ( US ) အခ်က္ျပမွ ရထားရပ္ေပးေသာ ဘူတာ႐ံု ကေလး။ ၂။ အရပ္အနားမ်ားေသာ ခရီး။ be/go on a whistle-stop tour of the country.

Examples

1. [blow a whistle] : The referee blew the whistle for half-time.
2. [a whistle goes/sounds] : The whistle went for full-time.
3. [a whistle blows] : The whistle blew as the train prepared to leave.
4. Loud cheers and whistles greeted the team.
5. [give/let out a whistle] : Darren gave a low whistle.
6. The ship’s shrill whistle
7. Play stopped when we heard the whistle.
8. [the final whistle] : He scored again just seconds before the final whistle.
9. The skylark’s piercing whistle