WHIZZ

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does whizz mean? 

• WHIZZ (noun)
  The noun WHIZZ has 1 sense:

1. someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field

  Familiarity information: WHIZZ used as a noun is very rare.

• WHIZZ (verb)
  The verb WHIZZ has 2 senses:

1. make a soft swishing sound

2. move along very quickly

  Familiarity information: WHIZZ used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WHIZZ (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

ace; adept; champion; genius; hotshot; maven; mavin; sensation; star; superstar; virtuoso; whiz; whizz; wiz; wizard

Hypernyms ("whizz" is a kind of...):

expert (a person with special knowledge or ability who performs skillfully)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "whizz"):

track star (a star runner)

• WHIZZ (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they whizz    ... he / she / it whizzes   
Past simple: whizzed   
Past participle: whizzed   
-ing form: whizzing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make a soft swishing sound

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Synonyms:

birr; purr; whir; whirr; whiz; whizz

Context example:

the car engine purred

Hypernyms (to "whizz" is one way to...):

go; sound (make a certain noise or sound)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Sense 2

Meaning:

Move along very quickly

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

whizz; whizz along; zoom; zoom along

Hypernyms (to "whizz" is one way to...):

hurry; speed; travel rapidly; zip (move very fast)

Sentence frames:

Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP

 Context examples 

Another from the Norman whizzed into the waist, broke the back of a horse, and crashed its way through the side of the vessel.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

As I passed the corner which leads from Bentinck Street on to the Welbeck Street crossing a two-horse van furiously driven whizzed round and was on me like a flash.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then suddenly out of the whizzing, slate-colored circle a long neck shot out, and a fierce beak made a thrust at us.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We had got fairly abreast of them now, the rumps of the horses exactly a-line and the fore wheels whizzing together.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The unnecessary noise he made (I had lain wide-eyed the whole night) must have awakened one of the hunters; for a heavy shoe whizzed through the semi-darkness, and Mr. Mugridge, with a sharp howl of pain, humbly begged everybody’s pardon.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The chargers spun round each other, biting and striking, while the two blades wheeled and whizzed and circled in gleams of dazzling light.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There’s something throbbing in my head now, like a docker’s hammer, but that morning I seemed to have all Niagara whizzing and buzzing in my ears.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then, the flight grew lower and the circle narrower, until they were whizzing round and round us, the dry, rustling flap of their huge slate-colored wings filling the air with a volume of sound that made me think of Hendon aerodrome upon a race day.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But wilder yet was the cry, and shriller still the scream, when there rose up from the shadow of those silent bulwarks the long lines of the English bowmen, and the arrows whizzed in a deadly sleet among the unprepared masses upon the pirate decks.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Sir Oliver Buttesthorn, Sir Richard Causton, Sir Simon Burley, Black Simon, Johnston, a hundred and fifty archers, and forty-seven men-at-arms had fallen, while the pitiless hail of stones was already whizzing and piping once more about their ears, threatening every instant to further reduce their numbers.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)