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What is the noun for whistles?

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whistle
  1. A device designed to be placed in the mouth and blown, or driven by steam or some other mechanism, to make a whistling sound.
  2. An act of whistling.
  3. A shrill, high-pitched sound made by whistling.
  4. Any high-pitched sound similar to the sound made by whistling.
  5. (Cockney rhyming slang) A suit (from whistle and flute).
  6. (colloquial) The mouth and throat; so called as being the organs of whistling.
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  8. Examples:
    1. “Mike, go and get everyone onto the bar deck and give me a whistle when it's all clear.”
whistler
  1. Someone or something that whistles, or who plays a whistle as a musical instrument.
  2. A bird that whistles (applied regionally to various specific species).
  3. A whistling marmot.
  4. A goldeneye.
  5. An audio-frequency electromagnetic wave produced by atmospheric disturbances such as lightning.
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  7. Examples:
    1. “The whistler poked its head out of the burrow and emitted a melodious tune, captivating everyone nearby.”
      “Listening to a tweek or a whistler conjures up nothing like a bolt of lightning in the mind's eye, however.”
      “As if he were on a mountain, his song came back to him, from another whistler this time.”
whistling
whistlings
whistlers
  1. plural of whistler
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The distribution notes on the shrike-thrush left me somewhat uncertain, but the whistlers are small, under 6 inches.”
      “We saw a grey fantail spreading its tail, a leaden flycatcher wagging its tail, a pair of rufous whistlers, and a pair of mistletoebirds.”
      “The most popular sulphuric body part is the belly, with bulbuls, flycatchers, tyrannulets, tyrant-manakins, warblers, and whistlers all so named.”
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