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Hiss vs Liss - What's the difference?

hiss | liss |

As nouns the difference between hiss and liss

is that hiss is a high-pitched sound made by a snake, cat, escaping steam, etc while liss is (exercise) l'ow '''i'''ntensity]] '''s'''teady [[state|' s tate; a form of exercise that utilizes prolonged periods of effort at a steady pace, such as jogging.

As a verb hiss

is to make a hissing sound.

hiss

English

Noun

(es)
  • 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.
  • Verb

  • To make a hissing sound.
  • As I started to poke it, the snake hissed at me.
    The arrow hissed through the air.
  • * Wordsworth
  • Shod with steel, / We hissed along the polished ice.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2011 , date=December 14 , author=John Elkington , title=John Elkington , work=the Guardian citation , page= , passage=It turns out that the driver of the red Ferrari that caused the crash wasn't, as I first guessed, a youngster, but a 60-year-old. Clearly, he had energy to spare, which was more than could be said about a panel I listened to around the same time as the crash. Indeed, someone hissed in my ear during a First Magazine awards ceremony in London's imposing Marlborough House on 7 December: "What we need is more old white men on the stage."}}
  • To condemn or express contempt for by hissing.
  • * Bible, Ezekiel xxvii. 36
  • The merchants among the people shall hiss at thee.
  • * Shakespeare
  • if the tag-rag people did not clap him and hiss him, according as he pleased and displeased them
  • To utter with a hissing sound.
  • * Tennyson
  • the long-necked geese of the world that are ever hissing dispraise

    liss

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) lis, lisse, lysse, from (etyl) liss, . See (l).

    Noun

    (-)
  • Relief; ease; abatement; cessation; release.
  • Comfort; happiness.
  • A respite from pain.
  • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) lissen, lyssen, from (etyl) . See above.

    Verb

    (es)
  • To ease; lighten; relieve; abate.
  • To blin; cease; stop.