whim
IPA: wˈɪm
noun
- A fanciful impulse, or sudden change of idea.
- (mining) A large capstan or vertical drum turned by horse power or steam power, for raising ore or water, etc., from mines, or for other purposes
- A bird, the Eurasian wigeon.
- (astronomy) Initialism of warm-hot intergalactic medium. [(astronomy) A sparse, warm-to-hot (105 to 107 K) plasma that cosmologists believe to exist in the spaces between galaxies and to contain 40–50% of the baryons in the universe at the current epoch.]
verb
- (rare, intransitive) To be seized with a whim; to be capricious.
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Examples of "whim" in Sentences
- His whim changes often.
- It's pretty much at the whim of the maker.
- A whole novel is at the whim of the author.
- It's entriely up to the whim of the author.
- Essentially, it's up to the whim of the board.
- The latter being merely at the whim of the author.
- Either there is policy or the whims of the administrators.
- The cap could be screwed down at the whim of the torturer.
- It was not created by the whim of a potentate, king, pope or emperor.
- It is the capricious whims of fate that determine the variables of a human life.
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