Hiss vs Sibilance - What's the difference?
hiss | sibilance |
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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To condemn or express contempt for by hissing.
* Bible, Ezekiel xxvii. 36
* Shakespeare
To utter with a hissing sound.
* Tennyson
The quality of being sibilant: a hissing quality.
* 2000 , Elaine A. Clark, There's Money Where Your Mouth Is: An Insider's Guide to a Career in Voice-Overs , Second Edition, Back Stage Books, ISBN 978-0-8230-7702-1,
* 2006 , Barbara Alysen, Electronic Reporter: Broadcast Journalism in Australia , Second Edition, University of New south Wales Press, ISBN 978-0-86840-495-0,
* 2009 , Jean Ann Wright and M. J. Lallo, Voice-Over for Animation , Elsevier, ISBN 978-0-240-81015-7,
* 2012 , Michael Zager, Music Production: For Producers, Composers, Arrangers, and Students , Second Edition, Scarecrow Press, ISBN 978-0-8108-8202-7,
As nouns the difference between hiss and sibilance
is that hiss is a high-pitched sound made by a snake, cat, escaping steam, etc while sibilance is the quality of being sibilant: a hissing quality.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
sibilance
English
Noun
(en noun)page 24:
- The following exercises help combat sibilance , plosives, lazy tongue, and mouth problems.
page 118:
- A string of words beginning with āsā will cause sibilance .
page 28:
- Work to control the sibilance of your s sounds.
page 277:
- Most often sending the vocal through a de-esser will either eliminate the sibilance or greatly reduce its sound.