whir

I used to run a 700MHZ powerbook, and the fan used to whir away.

I hate nothing more than a slow program and website, and I especially hate it when the site runs so slow it causes my fan to whir.

While I didn't like the page divider in this demo, I also don't like having to see the screen whir by when you hit the space bar.

The "whir" in reverse for most vehicles is caused by the reverse gear having different types of teeth than the forward gears.

For bright individuals, sleep sometimes doesn't come because of their mental gears continuing to whir, which is what you describe.

It would be amusing to edit the soundtrack to replace the Charger and Mustang V-8 notes with the whir of a couple electric motors.

Listening to your computer fans whir for two hours isn’t practical for most people, and is therefore not a practical real solution to this problem.

Lucky for the world, their sudden, synchronous silence gives enough advanced warning to thwart the attacks while their CPUs helplessly whir on one giant blocking call.

It sounds silly, but when I make large changes to my filesystem, I see the same issue, and it can be really annoying to listen to my MBP whir loudly on my desk.

"At first, this was a surprise, as in my native UK I can literally give a street name within 50 miles of where I am, and the driver cocks their head for a second, gears whir, and yes!

After explaining the machine the tour guide picked up a handset, dialed a number and you'd hear "clickety clickety whir whir" and see these mechanical bars move around and the other phone would start ringing.

I recall the wheels being tiny, and the tires tending towards the bald side, so maybe was preventable but nonetheless they would quite quickly send someone to pull LLVs out any time they got hung up!Edit -- They also have an incredibly distinct 'whir' sound when in reverse; it's truly unmistakable and 20+ years later I can still identify one by that sound.

And she'll eye me suspiciously Hearing the whir of the servos inside She will scream and try to run But there's nowhere she can hide When a crazy cyborg wants to make you his robot bride Well it's gonna be the future soon And I won't always be this way When the things that make me weak and strange get engineered away It's gonna be the future soon I've never seen it quite so clear And when my heart is breaking I can close my eyes and it's already here