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# whir

«whir» in Mova's school dictionary: **a soft, quick buzzing sound made by wheels or wings going…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (whirs); verb (whirs, whirred, whirring)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A whir is a soft, quick buzzing sound made by wheels or wings going round. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whir/#m1)

2) To whir is to make that sound. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whir/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in tales, clockwork wheels whir round and then the music stops

### examples

- The wheels went whir-r-r. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whir/#x1)
- A bird's wings whirred in the air. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whir/#x2)
- The clock began to whir. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whir/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «whir» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whir/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.