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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field [syn: ace, adept, champion, sensation, maven, mavin, virtuoso, genius, hotshot, star, superstar, whiz, whizz, wizard, wiz] v
1: make a soft swishing sound; "the motor whirred"; "the car engine purred" [syn: whizz, whiz, whirr, whir, birr, purr]
2: move along very quickly [syn: zoom, zoom along, whizz, whizz along]

Merriam Webster's

I. verb see whiz I II. noun see whiz II

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Whiz Whiz, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Whizzed; p. pr. & vb. n. Whizzing.] [Of imitative origin. ???. Cf. Whistle, and Hiss.] To make a humming or hissing sound, like an arrow or ball flying through the air; to fly or move swiftly with a sharp hissing or whistling sound. [Written also whizz.] It flew, and whizzing, cut the liquid way. --Dryden.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(whizzes, whizzing, whizzed) If something whizzes somewhere, it moves there very fast. (INFORMAL) Stewart felt a bottle whizz past his head... A car whizzed past. VERB: V prep/adv, V prep/adv