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
- noun A flexible container, often with an opening at the top, used to hold or carry items.
- verb To put something into a bag, or more broadly, to succeed in getting or catching something.
call — full definition
- verb To contact someone by phone, or to cry out or shout to get attention.
- verb To give someone or something a name; to refer to something in a particular way.
- verb To pay a brief visit, or to stop at a place, especially a ship stopping at a port.
- verb To predict or officially declare an outcome.
- noun An act of speaking to someone on the phone.