sibilant

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The worst offenders to my ears are piercing, sibilant s sounds and low, loud, bassy voices.

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Quick take

a consonant characterized by a hissing sound (like s or sh)

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of sibilant gathered in one view.

noun

a consonant characterized by a hissing sound (like s or sh)

adjective

of speech sounds produced by forcing air through a constricted passage (as `f', `s', `z', or `th' in both `thin' and `then')

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for sibilant.

noun

a consonant characterized by a hissing sound (like s or sh)

adjective

of speech sounds produced by forcing air through a constricted passage (as `f', `s', `z', or `th' in both `thin' and `then')

See also: fricative, continuant, spirant, strident

Example sentences

The worst offenders to my ears are piercing, sibilant s sounds and low, loud, bassy voices.

I'd like for sibilant to evolve into a language that incorporates the best elements of lisp and javascript.

Specifically, look into the 'Voiced alveolar sibilant', the 'z' in English.

He was not able to discriminate between similar words starting with different sibilant sounds.

Some reasons I can think of: it's definitely an advantage to be able to compile the code on the client-side, which sibilant should be able to do; I don't know if Parenscript can bootstrap itself the same way. Some people, like me, prefer lisp-1 to lisp-2.

The output javascript from sibilant is fairly plain and readable and encourages a particular subset of javascript's features.

Scraping with the chisel over and over again, I noticed that it was only when the plate emitted this hissing noise that any marks were left upon it; when the scraping was not accompanied by this sibilant note there was not the least trace of such marks.

Think about coming up with the phrase "the psychological ontogeny of sibilant speech impediments" in an era with no world wide web!Today if you just search for speech impediments, you instantly gain access to the vocabulary without leaving your seat, so you can slap together lines like this without that much effort.