whoosh

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You drop some genes on them, whoosh, a new human ear pops up.

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Quick take

the noise produced by the sudden rush of a fluid (a gas or liquid)

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of whoosh gathered in one view.

noun

the noise produced by the sudden rush of a fluid (a gas or liquid)

verb

move with a sibilant sound; "He whooshed the doors open"

verb

move with a whooshing sound

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for whoosh.

noun

the noise produced by the sudden rush of a fluid (a gas or liquid)

verb

move with a sibilant sound; "He whooshed the doors open"

verb

move with a whooshing sound

verb

gush or squirt out; "Oil whooshed up when the drill hit the well"

Example sentences

You drop some genes on them, whoosh, a new human ear pops up.

It was a lame joke, but the amount of "whoosh" in this thread is a bit mind boggling.

Tabbing out causes this weird "whoosh" animation to play which is so annoying.

The docs for whoosh make these claims that it's fast, but I haven't seen anything to backup the claims in unit tests or otherwise.

Gravity's Rainbow - took 4 months out of my year, but and it's still mostly a whoosh, but every time I started reading another book after that, it was just amazing how much better Pyncheon writes.

Got rid of social networking crap, got rid of their top bar, their bottom bar, the sidebars, the header, the masthead, the next article prompter, and the site was becoming readable, and then I slipped up and whoosh out went their content and voila, and like many inventions, one error led me to realize a greater creation than I had originally thought possible.