Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Whispered talk or conversation; a whisper, or whispers collectively.
- n. Talebearing, hint, or insinuation.
- Like a whisper; low and non-vocal.
- Emitting, making, or characterized by a low sound resembling a whisper.
Wiktionary
- v. present participle of whisper.
- adj. that whispers
- adj. associated with whispers
- n. Something that is whispered; gossip; a rumor.
GNU Webster's 1913
- a. & n. from whisper. v. t.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. making a low continuous indistinct sound
- n. a light noise, like the noise of silk clothing or leaves blowing in the wind
- n. speaking softly without vibration of the vocal cords
Examples
“Sometimes the whispering is silent, the poor dull head does not know how to go on playing, and then I am sorry for him and I miaow softly in sweet and sharp discord.”
“Interestingly, whispering is a very effective way of enabling students to enunciate more clearly.”
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“The whispering is also of the portmanteau Seaternal, an undertow of”
“Lots of speculation on the web, and in whispering circles, about why Obama's foreign trip -- a slam-dunk success substantively and in photo-op terms (Obama laughing with Petraeus in the helicopter was the best) -- hasn't resulted in a polling bump.”
“And I don't think they will let Lieberman stand behind McCain whispering in his ear during the debates.”
“Shouldn't you be somewhere next McCain whispering him corrections on statements he makes about foreign policy?”
“The whispering is heard into the French twentieth century, in the writing of Maurice Blanchot:”
“De Verceuil also sat, his helmet on the tower floor beside him, reading from a small leather-bound book, whispering the Latin words.”
“Immediately the boys begin whispering to each other very earnestly.”
“There came one night at last, when men's hearts burned in them too terribly for sleep, that some one proposed a resolution and sent the word whispering from hut to hut, that we should ask for Ranjoor”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘whispering’.
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EN-HU - important words for a HU inte...
Words only (I left out the expressions) from Geza Kerenyi's EN-HU interpreters' dictionary. Most of them pose some difficulty when interpreted between HU and EN in either or both directions.
abalone, abrasive, abstractionist, abstruse, abysmal, academia, accessibility, accessible, acclimate, accolade, accompanist, achiever and 1469 more...
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Best words in Beatles songs
kaleidoscope, plasticine, porters, tangerine, marmalade, cellophane, turnstile, marshmallow, lingers, slither, restless, limitless and 91 more...
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The Most Beautiful Words in the Engli...
mellifluous, obscure, star-crossed, undulating, solstice, messiah, audacious, solace, twilight, wanderlust, lovelorn, byzantine and 219 more...
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Bird Wirds: Adjectives
Adjectives used in actual (non-taxonomic) bird names, past and present.
roseate, glossy, whooping, neotropic, pelagic, ferruginous, crested, whiskered, marbled, tufted, horned, eared and 818 more...
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words about sound
mellifluous, susurrate, sibillant, aria, whispering, melodious, cacaphonous, cacophony, harmony, symphonious, phoeneme, phonic and 29 more...
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The Gloaming
dragging, burnt, desert, wind, skywalk, doorway, bundle, beard, tired, bittersweet, flux, party and 55 more...
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Linguistic lagniappe
Words, phrases, or factoids that don't seem to belong on any of my other lists.
isogloss, polysynthetic, phoneme, morpheme, archiphoneme, diglossia, decreolization, allophone, toneme, allomorph, tone sandhi, group genitive and 21 more...
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sionnach To produce whisper speech, the vocal folds are brought close to each other, and the arytenoids move away from each other. In this way, air can pass through the whisper triangle, which is the open space in between the arytenoids. Oct 13, 2009