释义 |
whoosh /wʊʃ / /wuːʃ /(also woosh) verbMove quickly or suddenly with a rushing sound: [no object, with adverbial of direction]: a train whooshed by...- And the channel rail link wasn't even a dream then, but now runs through a cutting at the bottom of the village, with trains whooshing past every half hour of so.
- One of the persistent legends that attaches to Saville, is that, like the author Douglas Adams, he loves the sound of deadlines whooshing past.
- I stopped talking, and relaxed in the cushy seat to hear the light whooshing sound of the train speeding along the track.
nounA sudden movement accompanied by a rushing sound: there was a big whoosh of air...- Most electronic music is still founded on blips, bleeps, whooshes, and other ‘spacey’ sounds.
- Or is it a triple CD packed full of interminable electronic bleeps and whooshes, both inaccessible and incomprehensible?
- Even the instrumental is all atmospheric whooshes and no concrete melodies.
exclamationUsed to imitate sudden movement accompanied by a rushing sound: the starlings gather, then suddenly—whoosh!—flocks rise and swirl...- And then, just when he has finished building a double-digit lead in the polls, whoosh!
- The Cape Cod trip seems to have dislodged some old memories - they come crashing down, a bit like watching the polar caps give way, whoosh!
- You know in old movies, they'd have a calendar that used to go whoosh!
Origin Mid 19th century: imitative. Rhymes Hindu Kush, kurus, mush, push, woosh |