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pilli — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • bag noun A flexible container, often with an opening at the top, used to hold or carry items.
  • call verb To contact someone by phone, or to cry out or shout to get attention.
  • pipe noun A rigid tube used to carry water, gas, or other fluids.
  • siren noun A device that produces a loud, piercing warning sound, or the sound itself.
  • whistle verb To make a clear, high-pitched sound by forcing air through pursed lips or teeth.

Senses

pilli is used for these senses in English:

  • bag (preceded by the) A breathalyzer, so named because it formerly had a plastic bag over the end to measure a set amount of breath.
  • call A pipe or other instrument to call birds or animals by imitating their note or cry. A game call.
  • drinking straw A long tube (usually made out of plastic or paper) through which a beverage is drunk via suction.
  • pipe (woodwind instrument) A wind instrument consisting of a tube, often lined with holes to allow for adjustment in pitch, sounded by blowing into the tube. [from 10th c.]
  • siren (musical instrument) A musical instrument, one of the few aerophones in the percussion section of the symphony orchestra (patented as Acme Siren in 1895).
  • whistle A device designed to be placed in the mouth and blown, or driven by steam or some other mechanism, to make a whistling sound.

bag — full definition

  1. noun A flexible container, often with an opening at the top, used to hold or carry items.
  2. verb To put something into a bag, or more broadly, to succeed in getting or catching something.

call — full definition

  1. verb To contact someone by phone, or to cry out or shout to get attention.
  2. verb To give someone or something a name; to refer to something in a particular way.
  3. verb To pay a brief visit, or to stop at a place, especially a ship stopping at a port.
  4. verb To predict or officially declare an outcome.
  5. noun An act of speaking to someone on the phone.
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