Hiss vs His - What's the difference?
hiss | his |
A high-pitched sound made by a snake, cat, escaping steam, etc.
An expression of disapproval made to sound like the noise of a snake.
To make a hissing sound.
* Wordsworth
* {{quote-news
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, date=December 14
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To condemn or express contempt for by hissing.
* Bible, Ezekiel xxvii. 36
* Shakespeare
To utter with a hissing sound.
* Tennyson
Belonging to him.
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , IV.i:
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* 2011 , Xan Rice, The Guardian , 8 Apr 2011:
(obsolete) Its; belonging to it. (Now only when implying personification.)
*, II.2:
* 1611 , Matthew 5:13, King James Version:
(archaic) Used as a genitive marker in place of ’s'' after a noun, especially a masculine noun ending in ''-s , to express the possessive case.
That which belongs to him; the possessive case of he, used without a following noun.
As nouns the difference between hiss and his
is that hiss is a high-pitched sound made by a snake, cat, escaping steam, etc while his is b sharp.As a verb hiss
is to make a hissing sound.hiss
English
Noun
(es)Verb
- As I started to poke it, the snake hissed at me.
- The arrow hissed through the air.
- Shod with steel, / We hissed along the polished ice.
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- The merchants among the people shall hiss at thee.
- if the tag-rag people did not clap him and hiss him, according as he pleased and displeased them
- the long-necked geese of the world that are ever hissing dispraise
his
English
(wikipedia his)Determiner
- With that he put his spurres vnto his steed, / With speare in rest, and toward him did fare, / Like shaft out of a bow preuenting speed.
- In his first televised address since the siege in Abidjan began this week, Ouattara said he would focus on returning the country to normal to ease the plight of civilians.
- My stomacke could not well reach so farre: it is very much troubled to come to an end of that which it takes for his need.
- Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted?
- Ahab his mark'' for ''Ahab's mark .
Usage notes
* When followed by a noun, it is sometimes referred to as a possessive adjective , qualifying the following noun. It is, however, the possessive case of the personal pronoun he.See also
(English personal pronouns)Pronoun
- The decision was his to live with.