Verbalize vs Hiss - What's the difference?
verbalize | hiss | Related terms |
To speak or to use words to express.
(grammar) To adapt a word of another part of speech as a verb.
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
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To condemn or express contempt for by hissing.
* Bible, Ezekiel xxvii. 36
* Shakespeare
To utter with a hissing sound.
* Tennyson
Verbalize is a related term of hiss.
As verbs the difference between verbalize and hiss
is that verbalize is to speak or to use words to express while hiss is to make a hissing sound.As a noun hiss is
a high-pitched sound made by a snake, cat, escaping steam, etc.verbalize
English
Alternative forms
* verbaliseVerb
(en-verb)- Bill became tongue-tied and could not verbalize his thoughts in the presence of the girl he had a crush on.
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