whinenoun/ˈwaɪ̯n/

• 1

  A long-drawn, high-pitched complaining cry or sound.

  • The 18-year-old [Justin] Bieber can’t quite pull off the “adult” thing just yet: His voice may have dropped a bit since the days of “Baby,” but it still mostly registers as “angelic,” and veers toward a pubescent whine at times.
• 2

  A peevish or self-pitying complaint or criticism.

  • I need to have a quick whine about my boss before we start talking about the holiday.
  • Eighner, in particular, is infamous for his "what publishers and editors did to poor me" whines.

whineverb/ˈwaɪ̯n/

• 1

  To utter a high-pitched cry.

• 2

  To make a sound resembling such a cry.

  • The jet engines whined at take off.
• 3

  To complain or protest with a whine (compare whinge) or as if with a whine, i.e. in a peevish or self-pitying way.

  • [S]he was one of your ſoft ſpoken, canting, whining hypocrites, who with a truly jeſuitical art, could wreſt evil out of the moſt inoffenſive thought, word, look or action; […]
  • Feel awfully about Scott... I always knew he couldn't think—he never could—but he had a marvelous talent and the thing is to use it—not whine in public.
• 4

  To move with a whining sound.

  • The jet whined into the air.
  • The wind whined and moaned through the trees.
• 5

  To utter with the sound of a whine.

  • The child whined all his complaints.
  • Kelly Queen was whining that the boss made him put on his tie.