Term: whistle: acoustic device that forces air or steam against an edge or into a cavity and so produces a loud shrill sound
Candidate hypernym: acoustic device: a device for amplifying or transmitting sound → 1
Candidate hypernym: troopship: ship for transporting troops → 0
Candidate hypernym: phrase: an expression consisting of one or more words forming a grammatical constituent of a sentence → 0
Candidate hypernym: geometry: the pure mathematics of points and lines and curves and surfaces → 0
Candidate hypernym: bernoulli's law: (statistics) law stating that a large number of items taken at random from a population will (on the average) have the population statistics → 0
Candidate hypernym: elasticity of shear: the elasticity of a body that has been pulled out of shape by a shearing force → 0
Candidate hypernym: preseason: a period prior to the beginning of the regular season which is devoted to training and preparation → 0
Candidate hypernym: interface: (computer science) a program that controls a display for the user (usually on a computer monitor) and that allows the user to interact with the system → 0
Candidate hypernym: hidatsa: a Siouan language spoken by the Hidatsa → 0
Candidate hypernym: furniture: furnishings that make a room or other area ready for occupancy → 0
Candidate hypernym: hartebeest: a large African antelope with lyre-shaped horns that curve backward → 0