whistler
IPA: wˈɪsɫɝ
noun
- Someone or something that whistles, or who plays a whistle as a musical instrument.
- Any of several passerine birds of the genera Pachycephala and Coracornis, of Australasia and the western Pacific.
- Any bird that whistles or is noted for its whistling vocalisations (applied regionally to various specific species).
- A goldeneye (any of certain ducks of genus Bucephala).
- A whistling marmot (Marmota caligata).
- A mountain beaver (Aplodontia rufa).
- An audio-frequency electromagnetic wave produced by atmospheric disturbances such as lightning.
- A broken-winded horse.
- (slang, obsolete) The keeper of a whistling shop, or shebeen.
- (countable) A surname.
- A placename
- A resort town in British Columbia, Canada.
- Ellipsis of Whistler Mountain. A mountain in British Columbia, Canada
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Examples of "whistler" in Sentences
- Don't want to start talking about the built in "speaker" that more correctly would be called a whistler ...
- It is really simple, logical, and the electric utility cannot trick you because the meters are accurate. whistler
- The windows xp codename "whistler" betas started at the end of 2000 for Ms affiliates, and the offical beta started feb 2001
- "The 'whistler's' call of alarm can be heard at a great distance; and when uttered by the sentinel is repeated by all the others as far as the troop extends.
- The windows xp (codename "whistler") betas started at the end of 2000 for Ms affiliates, and the offical beta started feb 2001 2000 to 2009 is close enough to ten years to count for most people.
- Others bark like 'toy-dogs,' while still other kinds utter a whistling noise, from which one species derives its trivial name of 'whistler' among the traders, and is the 'siffleur' of the Canadian voyageurs.
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