Sotto vs Whisper - What's the difference?
sotto | whisper |
* 1978–81 , David Henderson, ?Scuse Me While I Kiss the Sky: The Life of Jimi Hendrix (1983),
* 2006 October 2nd, (Chuck Lorre) and (Bill Prady), (The Big Bang Theory) , “”,
* 1978–81 , David Henderson, ?Scuse Me While I Kiss the Sky: The Life of Jimi Hendrix (1983),
* 2008 , David Henderson, ?Scuse Me While I Kiss the Sky: Jimi Hendrix, Voodoo Child ,
The act of speaking in a quiet voice, especially, without vibration of the vocal cords.
* 1883 , :
(usually in plural) A rumor.
(figurative) A faint trace or hint (of something).
(internet) A private message to an individual in a chat room.
* 2002 , Ralph Schroeder, The Social Life of Avatars (page 218)
* 2004 , Caroline A. Haythornthwaite, Michelle M. Kazmer, Learning, Culture and Community in Online Education (page 179)
To speak softly, or under the breath, so as to be heard only by one near at hand; to utter words without sonant breath; to talk without that vibration in the larynx which gives sonorous, or vocal, sound.
To mention privately and confidentially, or in a whisper.
* Bentley
To make a low, sibilant sound.
* Thomson
To speak with suspicion or timorous caution; to converse in whispers, as in secret plotting.
* Bible, Psalms xli. 7
(obsolete) To address in a whisper, or low voice.
* Shakespeare
* Keble
(obsolete) To prompt secretly or cautiously; to inform privately.
* Shakespeare
As a preposition sotto
is under; underneath.As a noun whisper is
the act of speaking in a quiet voice, especially, without vibration of the vocal cords.As a verb whisper is
to speak softly, or under the breath, so as to be heard only by one near at hand; to utter words without sonant breath; to talk without that vibration in the larynx which gives sonorous, or vocal, sound.sotto
English
Adverb
(-)page 104:
- Jimi’s guitar plays flat against the major chord, giving a strange, almost discordant effect. Mitch on drums is behind the bass sotto .
screenplay(revised first draft), act one, scene A (page 27):
- : (SOTTO , TO LEONARD) Oh, he’s good.
Adjective
(-)page 237:
- Playing against the effect, Wood plays single sotto lines with a variation on the key that sustains a minor mode against the finely tuned feedback effects stroked in pinks against the upper canvas.
page 192:
- The twelve string rings out but Jimi’s voice is sotto , intimate.
whisper
English
Noun
(Whispering) (en noun)- "Now, look here, Jim Hawkins," he said, in a steady whisper , that was no more than audible.
- There are whispers of rebellion all around.
- The soup had just a whisper of basil.
- The invisibility of private interactions in the form of whispers resolved an ethical concern in the research but reduced our ability to gauge the volume of interaction
- Anyone logged in to the chat room can click on an individual name, highlighting it, and send a message — a whisper — that will be seen only by the selected person.
Derived terms
* stage whisper * whisper campaignVerb
(en verb)- They might buzz and whisper it one to another.
- the hollow, whispering breeze
- All that hate me whisper together against me.
- and whisper one another in the ear
- where gentlest breezes whisper souls distressed
- He came to whisper Wolsey.