English-Dutch translations for whistle

  • fluiten
    Maar wij fluiten de wedstrijd af als de score 90 - 10 is. We are blowing the final whistle when the score is 90 - 10. En ik zou u zo graag horen fluiten; kunt u dat misschien hier vanavond doen?However, I would like to hear you whistle. Perhaps you could do so here tonight. Je zou kunnen zeggen dat men in Essen de lippen heeft getuit, terwijl men in Luxemburg tenminste heeft proberen te fluiten. You might say that in Essen there was a pursing of the lips. In Luxembourg there was a trial whistle.
  • fluitje
    Een sportman zou naar de scheidsrechter luisteren wanneer deze op zijn fluitje blies omdat iemand de regels heeft overtreden. A sportsman should have obeyed the referee when he blew the whistle when somebody broke the rules. Ik wil degenen buiten met hun fluitjes en T-shirts aanmoedigen: hou vol, maak de uitslagen van de stemming openbaar, laat van iedereen zien hoe hij heeft gestemd! As for those standing outside with their whistles and T-shirts, I would like to encourage them to stick at it, to publish the results of the vote, to show how each one of us actually voted.
  • fluittoon
  • fluit

Definition of whistle

  • A device designed to be placed in the mouth and blown, or driven by steam or some other mechanism, to make a whistling sound
  • An act of whistling
  • Any high-pitched sound similar to the sound made by whistling
  • A suit (from ''whistle and flute''
  • The mouth and throat; so called as being the organs of whistling
  • To make a shrill, high-pitched sound by forcing air through the mouth. To produce a whistling sound, restrictions to the flow of air are created using the teeth, tongue and lips
  • To make a similar sound by forcing air through a musical instrument or a pipe etc
  • To move in such a way as to create a whistling sound
  • To send, signal, or call by a whistle

Examples

  • the whistle of the wind in the trees
  • Never whistle at a funeral.
  • She was whistling a happy tune.
  • The stream train whistled as it passed by.
  • A bullet whistled past.

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