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Significats de hiss en anglès

portuguès
silvo
català
xiulada

A fricative sound (especially as an expression of disapproval)

xiulada
portuguès
assobiar
català
xiuxiuejar

Make a sharp hissing sound, as if to show disapproval.

xiuxiuejar
Sinònims
Examples for "hissing"
Examples for "hissing"
1
What is the matter with you?' said Gimli in a hissing whisper.
The two towers
2
On second thought, the hissing was coming from two places at once.
Seveneves
3
The people repeated and increased their hissing; the knights continued their clapping.
The Boys' and Girls' Plutarch / Being Parts of the "Lives" of Pl...
4
I did not answer, but she went on hissing questions at me.
The eyes of a king
5
The hatch closed, and I heard water hissing in the ballast tanks.
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of th...
1
That said; connections made today are likely to fizzle out into nothing!
The South African
2
But Travis had seen other such efforts fizzle out over the years.
Beginnings
3
But any momentum behind the deal appeared to fizzle quickly on Thursday.
Reuters
4
Days of protests seemed to fizzle out, but continued in some places.
Reuters
5
You can expect the deluges to fizzle out in the early evening.
The South African
1
Three tumbrils faring away with their dread loads over the hushing snow.
A Tale of Two Cities
2
Helena stepped forward and wrapped him in her skirt, hushing the cries.
Siege of heaven
3
He entered and found a young mother hushing her baby to rest.
The Blue Flower
4
The woman gave him a mild jab with her hand, hushing him.
The evolutionary void
5
As for hushing it up, I'm hushing it up myself, thank you.
The Belfry
1
The sibilation produced by the sap, which exudes copiously therefrom, is not conducive to composition.
Condensed Novels
2
Their fall was a soft sibilation, a long-drawn sigh.
A Maid of the Silver Sea
3
From far to the south drifted a fainter sibilation, like an echo of thirty-three's whistle.
The Best Short Stories of 1920, and the Yearbook of the American...
4
My lord prolonged the sibilation of his 'Yes,' in the way of absent- minded men.
Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Volume 4
5
He was turning back when he fancied he heard the sibilation of a whispering in the room.
The Ordeal of Richard Feverel — Complete
portuguès
vaiar

Show displeasure, as after a performance or speech.

vaiar

A cry or noise made to express displeasure or contempt.

Ús de hiss en anglès
1
Something in the soft hiss of the words made the Ranger turn.
The Freebooters of the Wilderness
2
The manager was heard to hiss from the shelter of the wings:
Frank Merriwell's Races
3
A great hiss momentarily drowned out the thunder of the horses' hooves.
Stonewielder
4
The sound track picked up the crash and hiss of the breakers.
Greylorn
5
Snarg let him know it was a bad idea with a hiss.
Emperor Mollusk Versus the Sinister Brain
6
The noise had always been there, a background hiss-patter-splash of falling water.
Dark rivers of the heart
7
The groans of the sufferers mingled with the hiss of escaping ketchup.
Ma Pettengill
8
Shaking involuntarily, Buttons moved quickly ahead, ignoring the warning hiss of Cross-eye.
The adventures of button
9
He could hear the hiss of compressed air from somewhere behind him.
The Cylons’ Secret
10
Only it wasn't power that would hiss up out of the steam.
Dragonshadow
11
The screeches become words that hiss and whistle and puff and roar.
A Grandpa's Notebook / Ideas, Models, Stories and Memoirs to Enc...
12
Shannon could hear the deconstructing literature crackle and hiss behind the subtext.
Spellwright
13
Nor did he hear the hiss that bubbled up from the depths.
The Tarn of Eternity
14
Her answer came, swift and fierce as the hiss of a snake:
Ardath: The Story of a Dead Self
15
He heard a yell, and then a sound like a long hiss.
True blue
16
Maeve let out a sudden hiss of anger, the sound eerily loud.
Summer knight
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Translations for hiss
Hiss a través del temps
Hiss per variant geogràfica
Estats Units d'Amèrica
Comú
Regne Unit
Comú
Irlanda
Comú