英语词汇“sibilation”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

sibilation

释义

sibilation|sɪbɪˈleɪʃən|
Also 9 sibill-.
[ad. late L. sībilātio, noun of action f. sībilāre. So F. sibilation.]
The action of hissing or whistling; a hissing or whistling sound.
1626Bacon Sylva §176 All Metals quenched in water give a Sibilation or hissing Sound.1684tr. Bonet's Merc. Compit. ix. 328 When children make a noise and sibilation as they suck the Milk.1755Johnson Dict., S..unhappily prevails in so many of our words that it produces in the ear of a foreigner a continued sibilation.1802W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. XIII. 10 Its sibillations are attached to its most necessary inflections.1847Tennyson Princ. i. 174 He with a long low sibilation, stared As blank as death in marble.1892W. H. Hudson La Plata 8 The sharp fitful sibilations of the dry wiry grasses on the barren places.
b. spec. Hissing as a sign of disapproval.
1822Examiner 109/2 The ecstasies of..the major part..set sibilation at defiance.1854Blackw. Mag. LXXVI. 703 The play was sent to Orcus..amidst hideous sibilation.

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