sibilant
IPA: sˈɪbʌɫʌnt
noun
- (phonetics) A consonant having a hissing or hushing sound such as the s or sh in sack or shack.
adjective
- Characterized by a hissing or hushing sound such as the s or sh in sack or shack.
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Examples of "sibilant" in Sentences
- The sibilant s sound reinforces the image.
- Mom made a sibilant sound all of a sudden.
- This affects especially the sibilant consonants.
- He spoke in sibilant English mocking my clumsy Arabic.
- They are low and insinuating, a kind of sibilant utterance:
- Then it would look like it is pronounced, with only sibilant sound.
- The signal containing the sibilant frequencies is sent to a compressor.
- Pinyin 'x' is probably best described as the voiceless palatal sibilant.
- The International Phonetic Alphabet uses for the voiced alveolar sibilant.
- The call is high and sibilant, and may be given in flight or while perched.
- So it is voiceless laminal sibilant retroflex fricative in standard Russian.
- The frequency range of the equalizer is centered on the sibilant frequencies.
- S: The nineteenth letter of the alphabet, which is called a sibilant, because it makes a hissing sound like a goose.
- Although an striking feature of Castilian Spanish and other variants of Spanish, respectively....have perserved the "sibilant" -s
- A slight aspirate preceding and modifying the sibilant, which is, however, the stronger of the two consonants; _e.g. hsing_ = _hissing_ without the first _i_,
- The Hebrew text suggests that the difference consisted in the different articulation of the "sibilant": although the conquered heard sh, they could produce only s.
- If the point of the tongue be placed between the teeth, and air from the mouth be forced between them, the Th sibilant is produced, as in thigh, and should have a proper character, as [*].
- P; and air from the mouth be forced between them; the W sibilant is produced, as pronounced by the Germans, and by some of the inferiour people of London, and ought to have an appropriated character as thus [*].
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