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 Translation for 'whine' from English to French
NOUN   a whine | whines
VERB   to whine | whined | whined
whining | whines
SYNO to creak | to grizzle | to screak | ...
criaillerto whine [fig.] [engine etc.]
lamentation {f} [lamentations]whine
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Translation for 'whine' from English to French

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to whine [fig.] [engine etc.]
criailler

whine
lamentation {f} [lamentations]
Usage Examples English
  • Like foxes, they do not bark, uttering instead a growl, followed by a long-drawn, melancholy whine.
  • The gag of making a doll whine by leaning a rocking chair on it was borrowed from Laurel and Hardy's 1940 film "Saps at Sea".
  • The Nicaraguan grackle has a variety of calls, including a frequent nasal call, various whistling notes, and a sharp, rising whine.
  • The results show that females predominantly prefer a whine with one chuck to a simple whine by more than fivefold.
  • She had a minor role as Marion "Funny Face". The character was aristocratic-looking but empty-headed fashion model with a Jackson Heights whine.

  • In her version of La Fontaine's Fables, Marianne Moore underlines his ironic comment on the situation in a final pun, "Better, I think, than an embittered whine".
  • Also, there have been several cases reported involving M1330 laptops to be cosmetically defective in manufacture, such as loose hinge covers and unusually and uneven gaps between plastic parts, as well as customer complaints concerning "CPU whine".
  • VFR400 engines produce a noticeable whine when the engine is running, due to the cams being driven by straight cut gears, rather than chains or belts.
  • The song of the yellow oriole is a pleasant, melodious fluting, with some buzzing. The calls include a cat-like whine and chattering noises.
  • One variation of the howl is accompanied by a high pitched whine, which precedes a lunging attack.

  • Vernacular or common names for this species include: whine fountainbush, fascicled fountainbush, and large-stipule fountainbush.
  • The Whiner Brothers (played by Rick Burgess and Bubba Bussey, and voiced by David Andrew Brent and Peter Jaycock in the Animated Adventures): Two villains who use a radio station broadcast to make children whine and complain.
  • Electromagnetically induced acoustic noise (and vibration), electromagnetically excited acoustic noise, or more commonly known as coil whine, is audible sound directly produced by materials vibrating under the excitation of electromagnetic forces.
  • The ZenBook UX430 is commonly reported to suffer from significant coil whine issues.
  • He’ld lay his snout to her lap, her lap, and whine her friendly to.

  • According to several sites there have been early complaints of a high-pitched whine during audio playback through the headphones.
  • Males who have a whine-cluck call are more successful in attracting females than males whose call is a whine alone.
  • Geared to reach speeds of at least [...] , which was fast for its day, the OB is remembered by many for its characteristic gearbox whine.
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