Singing and Whistling

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Singing noun - The act of singing vocal music.

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Whistling and singing are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Whistling" instead the word "Singing" as an adjective or a noun.

Nearby Words: sing, singer, singe, singed, singable

Whistling noun - The sound made by something moving rapidly or by steam coming out of a small aperture.

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Singing and whistling are semantically related. You can use "Singing" instead a noun "Whistling".

Nearby Words: whistle, whistled, whist, whistler

A lot of the music in Rio Bravo is source music, from the playing of Deguello to wear down the besieged to Dean Martin and Ricky Nelson singing and whistling.

Source: Source Music
Exasperated Perp: Brody and Borin give an uncooperative suspect (who's been whistling "Dixie") a taste of his own medicine by whistling and singing "I Fought the Law and the Law Won".

Source: Series / NCIS: New Orleans
The singing/whistling slugs that recur regularly in the movie were originally just in one scene, but the producers apparently thought it was comedy gold and insisted that if a significant amount of time had passed without any big laughs, they were to slot in the slugs in some way.

Source: Executive Meddling / Animated Films

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