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whois

UK/ˈhuːˌɪz/

whois noun: the WHOIS protocol or service.

Noun

whois (usually uncountable, plural whoises)

  1. (Internet, usually) The WHOIS protocol or service.

Verb

whois (third-person singular simple present whoises, present participle whoising, simple past and past participle whoised)

  1. (Internet, transitive) To look up using a whois protocol.
    • We whoised the domain to find out who was sending the spam.
    • That seems to be an undocumented feature, but makes perfect sense. Of course, that wouldn't prevent you from whoising 20 people at once, which could be a problem.2003, Joel, “Re: A whois addon”, in alt.irc.dalnet (Usenet)

whois meaning in Tamil

whois in Tamil

உள்ள

Forms of whois

Noun
pluralwhoises
Verb
third-person singular presentwhoises
present participlewhoising
past participlewhoised
pastwhoised

Questions about whois

What does whois mean?
Whois means the WHOIS protocol or service.
What is whois in Tamil?
Whois in Tamil is உள்ள. See Whois meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is whois?
Whois can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce whois?
Whois is pronounced /ˈhuːˌɪz/ (UK).
What is the plural of whois?
The plural of whois is whoises.

Words near whois in the dictionary

  1. whoever
  2. whoever pays the piper calls the tune
  3. whoever smelt it dealt it
  4. whoever's
  5. WHOI
  6. whois
  7. whoised
  8. whoises
  9. whoising
  10. whole
  11. whole bag of tricks

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Adapted from Wiktionary: whois (page history and authors); whois (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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