单词 | sibilation |
释义 | sibilationn. a. The action of hissing or whistling; a hissing or whistling sound. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > continuous or protracted sound > sibilant sound > [noun] whistlingc897 hissinga1425 hiss1513 whissing1555 hizzing1582 sibilation1626 afflatus1753 siss1859 shish1881 sizzing1890 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §176 All Metals quenched in water give a Sibilation or hissing Sound. 1684 tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician ix. 328 When children make a noise and sibilation as they suck the Milk. 1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. at S [The letter] unhappily prevails in so many of our words that it produces in the ear of a foreigner a continued sibilation. 1802 W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. 13 10 Its sibillations are attached to its most necessary inflections. 1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess i. 20 He, with a long low sibilation, stared As blank as death in marble. 1892 W. H. Hudson Naturalist in La Plata 8 The sharp fitful sibilations of the dry wiry grasses on the barren places. b. spec. Hissing as a sign of disapproval. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > [noun] > expression of disapproval > by sounds or exclamations hootinga1225 hissingc1384 fie?1550 acclamation1602 hiss1602 hoot1612 catcall1749 catcallingc1781 scraping1785 sibilation1822 the big bird1825 boo hoo1825 booing1830 Kentish fire1834 boo-hooing1865 boo1884 slow handclap1904 tutting1929 slow handclapping1932 slow clap1937 the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > other vocal sounds > [noun] > hissing > in disapproval hissingc1384 hiss1602 goose1805 sibilation1822 1822 Examiner 109/2 The ecstasies of..the major part..set sibilation at defiance. 1854 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 76 703 The play was sent to Orcus..amidst hideous sibilation. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < |
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