sibilant
/sib-uh-luhnt/US // ˈsɪb ə lənt //UK // (ˈsɪbɪlənt) //
咝咝声,咝音,咝声,咝咝作响
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Definitions
adj.形容词 adjective
- 1
- : hissing.
- : Phonetics. characterized by a hissing sound; noting sounds like those spelled with s in this [this], /ðɪs/, rose [rohz], /roʊz/, pressure [presh-er], /ˈprɛʃ ər/, pleasure [plezh-er], /ˈplɛʒ ər/, and certain similar uses of ch, sh, z, zh, etc.
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : Phonetics. a sibilant consonant.
Synonyms & Antonyms
as inspeech sound
Synonyms
affricate亲和语,暧昧,暧昧语,暧昧的click点击,单击,点击进入,点击这里consonant辅音,声母,子音,声调diphthong双元音,二重奏,双元音符,双元组fricative擦音,擦音符,擦音符语,辩音implosive内爆,内爆式,内爆型,内爆性liquid液态,液态的,液态物,液态物品phone电话,手机phonetic entity语音实体,语音体,声器官,语音识别实体phonetic unit语音单位,语音单元,音素单位,音标单位plosive塞音词,塞语,塞音sonant声波,声纳,铿锵,铿锵有力spirant蕖蕖syllable音节,韵律,唵嘛呢叭咪吽,唵唵vocable词汇,语气词,词汇量,词语
Examples
But she only lifted a warning finger and made a sibilant sound with her lips, adjuring silence.
Exemplify the sibilant impurity with such syllables as pish, false, traitress, miscreant.
But out of the muck-heap I picked five pearls—four sibilant nouns and a name that I knew before.
Grace whispered, but the sibilant swish of sounds seemed more resonant than an outspoken address might have.
The tones were first high, then low, never guttural, and possessed a certain sibilant quality.
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