S vs Susurration - What's the difference?
s | susurration |
The nineteenth letter of the .
voiceless alveolar fricative
Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.
Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type
Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur
Symbols for SI units
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(en) a low, indistinct continuous whispering sound; a murmur
* by Ambrose Bierce
*:The rain was now falling more steadily, with a low, monotonous susurration , interrupted at long intervals by the sudden slashing of the boughs of the trees as the wind rose and failed.
*1965 Dune by Frank Herbert
*:Halleck nodded, heard the faint susurration and felt the air shift as a lockport swung open beside him.
*2004 Oct 17, Laura Cumming, in . From a whisper to a scream
*:Coming in feels almost like going out - an audible breeze threatening to swell into a blizzard, waves breaking and withdrawing, the open air tuned to so many sounds that your own are absorbed in the rise and fall of murmurs, shouts, susurrations , plosives, stutters and echoes - and above them all, like Prospero, the voice of the artist humming to himself as if thinking (or not thinking) aloud.
