whine

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A long-drawn, high-pitched complaining cry or sound.

   “The 18-year-old [Justin] Bieber can’t quite pull off the “adult” thing just yet: His voice may have dropped a bit since the days of “Baby,” but it still mostly registers as “angelic,” and veers toward a pubescent whine at times.”

2. isim A peevish or self-pitying complaint or criticism.

   “I need to have a quick whine about my boss before we start talking about the holiday.”

3. fiil To utter a high-pitched cry.
4. fiil To make a sound resembling such a cry.

   “The jet engines whined at take off.”

5. fiil To complain or protest with a whine (compare whinge) or as if with a whine, i.e. in a peevish or self-pitying way.

   “[S]he was one of your ſoft ſpoken, canting, whining hypocrites, who with a truly jeſuitical art, could wreſt evil out of the moſt inoffenſive thought, word, look or action; […]”

6. fiil To move with a whining sound.

   “The jet whined into the air.”

7. fiil To utter with the sound of a whine.

   “The child whined all his complaints.”