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# whoosh

«whoosh» in Mova's school dictionary: **A sound of something moving very fast through the air, or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a whoosh, whooshes); verb (whoosh, whooshes, whooshed, whooshing); interjection (whoosh!)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A sound of something moving very fast through the air, or of a rush of wind or water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whoosh/#m1)

2) (verb) To move fast with this sound. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whoosh/#m2)

3) (interjection) A word that copies this sound. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whoosh/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

Used in stories and comics as a sound word (onomatopoeia), so the reader can hear the speed: wind, a slide, a train, a rocket. In English lessons it is a good example of onomatopoeia.

### examples

- Whoosh! The wind blew the hat off his head. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whoosh/#x1)
- The train whooshed past the platform. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whoosh/#x2)
- She came down the water slide with a whoosh. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whoosh/#x3)
- We heard the whoosh of the rocket. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whoosh/#x4)
- The waves whooshed up the beach. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whoosh/#x5)
- «Whoosh» is an example of onomatopoeia. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whoosh/#x6)

### note

Spelling: wh-oo-sh. Past: whooshed. Onomatopoeia = a word that sounds like what it means (buzz, bang, whoosh). Informal and lively; fine in stories.

### Trees and pragmatics

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