2010_05_11 Sibilant adj. Hissing; 嘶嘶聲。

Word of the Day for Friday, May 11, 2012
sibilant \SIB-uh-luhnt\, adjective:
1. Hissing.
2. Phonetics. Characterized by a hissing sound; noting sounds like those spelled with s in this.
noun:
1. Phonetics. A sibilant consonant.
This is the way the presence of a ghost was detected: Some sound would be heard, such as a sibilant noise, a soft whistle, or something like murmurs, or some sensation in a part of the body might be felt.
 -- George H. Ellis, Legends of Gods and Ghosts: Hawaiian Mythology
He just drank his coffee, making a little sibilant sound, and watched the earth mover lumber back and forth, back and forth, its shovel going up and down and over and up and down and over again.
 -- Anna Quindlen, Object Lessons
The wind in the patch of pine woods off there—how sibilant.
 -- Walt Whitman, Prose Works 1892: Specimen Days
Sibilant stems from the Latin word sībilant- which meant "whistling or hissing." It is assumed to imitative of the sound itself.

1。嘶嘶聲。
2。語音。特點是發出嘶嘶的聲音;注意到這樣的拼寫在這聲音。

名詞：
1。語音。噝噝輔音。

這是鬼的存在檢測方式：如噝噝噪聲，軟哨子，或像雜音東西，或一些可能會感到身體的一部分的感覺，會聽到一些聲音。
- 喬治·H.埃利斯，鬼神的傳說：夏威夷神話

他只是喝他的咖啡，一點點的噝噝聲，並觀看地球先行者木材來回，來回，鏟去，並和和反复。
- 安娜昆德倫，對象的經驗教訓

風中的松樹關閉有噝噝的補丁。
- 沃爾特·惠特曼，散文創作1892年：標本天

從“吹口哨或噝噝噝噝噝噝聲，這意味著拉丁詞莖。”假定它模仿的聲音本身。