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# whisk

«whisk» in Mova's school dictionary: **a kitchen tool made of curved wires, used to beat eggs or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a whisk, whisks); verb (whisk, whisks, whisked, whisking)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A whisk is a kitchen tool made of curved wires, used to beat eggs or cream quickly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whisk/#m1)

2) To whisk means to beat food fast with a whisk or fork to add air. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whisk/#m2)

3) To whisk someone or something away means to take them somewhere very quickly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whisk/#m3)

4) A whisk can also be a quick, light flick or sweep, such as an animal swishing its tail. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whisk/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In cooking and food lessons, you whisk eggs for scrambled eggs and whisk egg whites until stiff for meringues; whisking traps air bubbles. In stories, a car whisks someone away, or a magic wind whisks the hero to another land. A cow whisks its tail to brush off flies.

### examples

- Whisk the eggs and milk together. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whisk/#x1)
- Pass me the whisk, please. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whisk/#x2)
- Whisk the cream until it is thick. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whisk/#x3)
- A taxi whisked them away to the airport. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whisk/#x4)
- The magic carpet whisked Aladdin into the sky. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whisk/#x5)
- The horse whisked its tail at the flies. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whisk/#x6)
- And with this proud speech he gave a whisk of his long tail, and galloped away faster than before. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whisk/#x7)

### note

Countable noun; regular verb: whisked. Electric whisk = a mixer. Do not confuse with whisky (a strong alcoholic drink) or whiskers.

### In the corpora

- [Cakes rise with baking powder or whisked eggs instead.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/21-bread-rising-yeast-at-work/6/)
- [Cakes rise without yeast, using baking powder or whisked eggs to trap gas that expands in the oven heat.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/21-bread-rising-yeast-at-work/18/)
- [Whisking cream traps air bubbles, held by fat droplets; whisking too long turns it lumpy and then into butter.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/22-milk-cheese-and-yoghurt/17/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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