Definitions for whine
ʰwaɪn, waɪnwhine

Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. whimper, whineverb

   a complaint uttered in a plaintive whining way

2. whineverb

   move with a whining sound

   "The bullets were whining past us"

3. snivel, whineverb

   talk in a tearful manner

4. whine, squeak, screech, creak, screak, skreakverb

   make a high-pitched, screeching noise

   "The door creaked when I opened it slowly"; "My car engine makes a whining noise"

5. whine, grizzle, yammer, yawpverb

   complain whiningly

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. whinenoun

   a long-drawn, high-pitched complaining cry or sound

2. whinenoun

   a complaint or criticism

3. whineverb

   to utter a whine

   The jet engines whined at take off.

4. whineverb

   to complain or protest in a childish manner or about trivial things

   Kelly Queen was whining that the boss made him put on his tie.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Whinenoun

   Plaintive noise; mean or affected complaint.

   Etymology: from the verb.

   The favourable opinion of men comes oftentimes by a few demure looks and affected whines, set off with some odd devotional postures and grimaces. South.

   Thy hateful whine of woe
   Breaks in upon my sorrows, and distracts
   My jarring senses with thy beggar’s cry. Nicholas Rowe, J. Shore.

2. To Whineverb

   To lament in low murmurs; to make a plaintive noise; to moan meanly and effeminately.

   Etymology: wanian , Saxon; weenen, Dutch; ewyno, Welsh.

   They came to the wood, where the hounds were in couples staying their coming, but with a whining accent craving liberty. Philip Sidney.

   At his nurse’s tears
   He whin’d and roar’d away your victory,
   That pages blush’d at him. William Shakespeare, Coriolanus.

   Twice and once the hedge-pig whin’d. William Shakespeare, Macbeth.

   Whip him,
   ’Till, like a boy, you see him cringe his face,
   And whine aloud for mercy. William Shakespeare, Ant. and Cleopatra.

   All the common people have a whining tone and accent in their speech, as if they did still smart or suffer some oppression. John Davies, on Ireland.

   Then, if we whine, look pale,
   And tell our tale,
   Men are in pain
   For us again;
   So, neither speaking, doth become
   The lover’s state, nor being dumb. John Suckling.

   He made a viler noise than swine
   In windy weather, when they whine. Hudibras.

   Some, under sheeps cloathing, had the properties of wolves, that is, they could whine and howl as well as bite and devour. Robert South, Sermons.

   I was not born so base to flatter crouds,
   And move your pity by a whining tale. John Dryden, Don Sebast.

   Laughing at their whining may perhaps be the proper method. John Locke.

   Life was given for noble purposes; and therefore it must not be sacrificed to a quarrel, nor whined away in love. Collier.

   Upon a general mourning, mercers and woollen-drapers would in four and twenty hours raise their cloths and silks to above a double price; and, if the mourning continued long, then whining with petitions to the court, that they were ready to starve. Jonathan Swift.

Webster Dictionary(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. Whineverb

   to utter a plaintive cry, as some animals; to moan with a childish noise; to complain, or to tell of sorrow, distress, or the like, in a plaintive, nasal tone; hence, to complain or to beg in a mean, unmanly way; to moan basely

2. Whineverb

   to utter or express plaintively, or in a mean, unmanly way; as, to whine out an excuse

3. Whinenoun

   a plaintive tone; the nasal, childish tone of mean complaint; mean or affected complaint

4. Etymology: [OE. whinen, AS. hwnan to make a whistling, whizzing sound; akin to Icel. hvna, Sw. hvina, Dan. hvine, and probably to G. wiehern to neigh, OHG. wihn, hweijn; perhaps of imitative origin. Cf. Whinny, v. i.]

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1. Whine

   Whine is an album by Scorn, originally released in 1997 on Invisible Records in the United States, and KK Records in Europe.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Whine

   hwīn, v.i. to utter a plaintive, shrill cry: to complain in an unmanly way.—n. a plaintive cry: an affected nasal tone of complaint.—ns. Whī′ner; Whī′ning.—adv. Whī′ningly. [A.S. hwínan, to whine; Ice. hvína.]

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of whine in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of whine in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of whine in a Sentence

1. "Swedish Proverb":

   Fear less, hope more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Hate less, love more; And all good things are yours.

2. Swedish Proverb:

   Fear less, hope more Whine less, breathe more

3. Joan Didion:

   When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something, not that it is a pragmatic necessity for us to have it, but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, then is when we join the fashionable madmen, and then is when the thin whine of hysteria is heard in the land, and then is when we are in bad trouble.

4. AiR Atman in Ravi:

   You can be happy all the time, If you learn to smile and not whine, Not jumping from the future to the past, Be in the NOW and make happiness last.

5. Larry Sabato:

   Maybe he gets on TV to whine about the debate, but he uses the rest of the time to say, 'Here's what I stand for,' then suddenly people start paying attention. Democratic activists will actually know who he is.

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