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whisper
(mass) | whisper
- šepkať |
whisper
(encz) | whisper,pošeptat Zdeněk Brož |
whisper
(encz) | whisper,šepot n: Zdeněk Brož |
whisper
(encz) | whisper,šeptat v: |
whisper
(encz) | whisper,šuškat v: Zdeněk Brož |
whisper
(encz) | whisper,zašeptat v: |
Whisper
(gcide) | Whisper \Whis"per\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Whispered; p. pr. &
vb. n. Whispering.] [AS. hwisprian; akin to G. wispern,
wispeln, OHG. hwispal?n, Icel. hv[imac]skra, Sw. hviska, Dan.
hviske; of imitative origin. Cf. Whistle.]
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1. 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. See Whisper, n.
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2. To make a low, sibilant sound or noise.
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The hollow, whispering breeze. --Thomson.
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3. To speak with suspicion, or timorous caution; to converse
in whispers, as in secret plotting.
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All that hate me whisper together against me. --Ps.
xli. 7.
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Whisper
(gcide) | Whisper \Whis"per\, n.
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1. A low, soft, sibilant voice or utterance, which can be
heard only by those near at hand; voice or utterance that
employs only breath sound without tone, friction against
the edges of the vocal cords and arytenoid cartilages
taking the place of the vibration of the cords that
produces tone; sometimes, in a limited sense, the sound
produced by such friction as distinguished from breath
sound made by friction against parts of the mouth. See
Voice, n., 2, and Guide to Pronunciation, [sect][sect]
5, 153, 154.
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The inward voice or whisper can not give a tone.
--Bacon.
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Soft whispers through the assembly went. --Dryden.
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2. A cautious or timorous speech. --South.
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3. Something communicated in secret or by whispering; a
suggestion or insinuation.
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4. A low, sibilant sound. "The whispers of the leaves."
--Tennyson.
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Whisper
(gcide) | Whisper \Whis"per\, v. t.
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1. To utter in a low and nonvocal tone; to say under the
breath; hence, to mention privately and confidentially, or
in a whisper.
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They might buzz and whisper it one to another.
--Bentley.
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2. To address in a whisper, or low voice. [Archaic]
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And whisper one another in the ear. --Shak.
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Where gentlest breezes whisper souls distressed.
--Keble.
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3. To prompt secretly or cautiously; to inform privately.
[Obs.] "He came to whisper Wolsey." --Shak.
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whisper
(wn) | whisper
n 1: speaking softly without vibration of the vocal cords [syn:
whisper, whispering, susurration, voicelessness]
2: a light noise, like the noise of silk clothing or leaves
blowing in the wind [syn: rustle, rustling, whisper,
whispering]
v 1: speak softly; in a low voice [ant: shout] |
| | podobné slovo | definícia |
whisper
(mass) | whisper
- šepkať |
whisperi
(mass) | whisperi
- šepkať |
whispering
(mass) | whispering
- šepkajúc, šepkanie |
self-whispered
(encz) | self-whispered, adj: |
stage whisper
(encz) | stage whisper,hlasitý šepot Zdeněk Brož |
whisper
(encz) | whisper,pošeptat Zdeněk Brožwhisper,šepot n: Zdeněk Brožwhisper,šeptat v: whisper,šuškat v: Zdeněk Brožwhisper,zašeptat v: |
whispered
(encz) | whispered,šeptal v: Zdeněk Brož |
whisperer
(encz) | whisperer,našeptávač n: Zdeněk Brožwhisperer,šeptač n: Zdeněk Brožwhisperer,šeptálek n: Zdeněk Brožwhisperer,udavač n: Zdeněk Brož |
whispering
(encz) | whispering,šeptající adj: Zdeněk Brožwhispering,šeptání n: Zdeněk Brož |
whispering bells
(encz) | whispering bells, n: |
whispering campaign
(encz) | whispering campaign, n: |
whispering dome
(encz) | whispering dome, n: |
whispering gallery
(encz) | whispering gallery, n: |
whispers
(encz) | whispers,šeptá v: |
Stage whisper
(gcide) | Stage \Stage\ (st[=a]j), n. [OF. estage, F. ['e]tage, (assumed)
LL. staticum, from L. stare to stand. See Stand, and cf.
Static.]
1. A floor or story of a house. [Obs.] --Wyclif.
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2. An elevated platform on which an orator may speak, a play
be performed, an exhibition be presented, or the like.
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3. A floor elevated for the convenience of mechanical work,
or the like; a scaffold; a staging.
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4. A platform, often floating, serving as a kind of wharf.
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5. The floor for scenic performances; hence, the theater; the
playhouse; hence, also, the profession of representing
dramatic compositions; the drama, as acted or exhibited.
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Knights, squires, and steeds, must enter on the
stage. --Pope.
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Lo! where the stage, the poor, degraded stage,
Holds its warped mirror to a gaping age. --C.
Sprague.
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6. A place where anything is publicly exhibited; the scene of
any noted action or career; the spot where any remarkable
affair occurs; as, politicians must live their lives on
the public stage.
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When we are born, we cry that we are come
To this great stage of fools. --Shak.
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Music and ethereal mirth
Wherewith the stage of air and earth did ring.
--Miton.
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7. The platform of a microscope, upon which an object is
placed to be viewed. See Illust. of Microscope.
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8. A place of rest on a regularly traveled road; a stage
house; a station; a place appointed for a relay of horses.
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9. A degree of advancement in a journey; one of several
portions into which a road or course is marked off; the
distance between two places of rest on a road; as, a stage
of ten miles.
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A stage . . . signifies a certain distance on a
road. --Jeffrey.
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He traveled by gig, with his wife, his favorite
horse performing the journey by easy stages.
--Smiles.
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10. A degree of advancement in any pursuit, or of progress
toward an end or result.
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Such a polity is suited only to a particular stage
in the progress of society. --Macaulay.
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11. A large vehicle running from station to station for the
accommodation of the public; a stagecoach; an omnibus. "A
parcel sent you by the stage." --Cowper. [Obsolescent]
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I went in the sixpenny stage. --Swift.
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12. (Biol.) One of several marked phases or periods in the
development and growth of many animals and plants; as,
the larval stage; pupa stage; zoea stage.
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Stage box, a box close to the stage in a theater.
Stage carriage, a stagecoach.
Stage door, the actors' and workmen's entrance to a
theater.
Stage lights, the lights by which the stage in a theater is
illuminated.
Stage micrometer, a graduated device applied to the stage
of a microscope for measuring the size of an object.
Stage wagon, a wagon which runs between two places for
conveying passengers or goods.
Stage whisper, a loud whisper, as by an actor in a theater,
supposed, for dramatic effect, to be unheard by one or
more of his fellow actors, yet audible to the audience; an
aside.
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Whispered
(gcide) | Whisper \Whis"per\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Whispered; p. pr. &
vb. n. Whispering.] [AS. hwisprian; akin to G. wispern,
wispeln, OHG. hwispal?n, Icel. hv[imac]skra, Sw. hviska, Dan.
hviske; of imitative origin. Cf. Whistle.]
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1. 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. See Whisper, n.
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2. To make a low, sibilant sound or noise.
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The hollow, whispering breeze. --Thomson.
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3. To speak with suspicion, or timorous caution; to converse
in whispers, as in secret plotting.
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All that hate me whisper together against me. --Ps.
xli. 7.
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Whisperer
(gcide) | Whisperer \Whis"per*er\, n.
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1. One who whispers.
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2. A tattler; one who tells secrets; a conveyer of
intelligence secretly; hence; a backbiter; one who
slanders secretly. --Prov. xvi. 28.
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Whispering
(gcide) | Whispering \Whis"per*ing\,
a. & n. from Whisper. v. t.
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Whispering gallery, or Whispering dome, one of such a
form that sounds produced in certain parts of it are
concentrated by reflection from the walls to another part,
so that whispers or feeble sounds are audible at a much
greater distance than under ordinary circumstances. The
dome of the U. S. capitol building is one example.
[1913 Webster +PJC]Whisper \Whis"per\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Whispered; p. pr. &
vb. n. Whispering.] [AS. hwisprian; akin to G. wispern,
wispeln, OHG. hwispal?n, Icel. hv[imac]skra, Sw. hviska, Dan.
hviske; of imitative origin. Cf. Whistle.]
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1. 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. See Whisper, n.
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2. To make a low, sibilant sound or noise.
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The hollow, whispering breeze. --Thomson.
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3. To speak with suspicion, or timorous caution; to converse
in whispers, as in secret plotting.
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All that hate me whisper together against me. --Ps.
xli. 7.
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Whispering dome
(gcide) | Whispering \Whis"per*ing\,
a. & n. from Whisper. v. t.
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Whispering gallery, or Whispering dome, one of such a
form that sounds produced in certain parts of it are
concentrated by reflection from the walls to another part,
so that whispers or feeble sounds are audible at a much
greater distance than under ordinary circumstances. The
dome of the U. S. capitol building is one example.
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Whispering gallery
(gcide) | Gallery \Gal"ler*y\, n.; pl. Galleries. [F. galerie, It.
galleria, fr. LL. galeria gallery, perh. orig., a festal
hall, banquetting hall; cf. OF. galerie a rejoicing, fr.
galer to rejoice. Cf. Gallant, a.]
1. A long and narrow corridor, or place for walking; a
connecting passageway, as between one room and another;
also, a long hole or passage excavated by a boring or
burrowing animal.
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2. A room for the exhibition of works of art; as, a picture
gallery; hence, also, a large or important collection of
paintings, sculptures, etc.
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3. A long and narrow platform attached to one or more sides
of public hall or the interior of a church, and supported
by brackets or columns; -- sometimes intended to be
occupied by musicians or spectators, sometimes designed
merely to increase the capacity of the hall.
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4. (Naut.) A frame, like a balcony, projecting from the stern
or quarter of a ship, and hence called stern gallery or
quarter gallery, -- seldom found in vessels built since
1850.
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5. (Fort.) Any communication which is covered overhead as
well as at the sides. When prepared for defense, it is a
defensive gallery.
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6. (Mining) A working drift or level.
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Whispering gallery. See under Whispering.
[1913 Webster]Whispering \Whis"per*ing\,
a. & n. from Whisper. v. t.
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Whispering gallery, or Whispering dome, one of such a
form that sounds produced in certain parts of it are
concentrated by reflection from the walls to another part,
so that whispers or feeble sounds are audible at a much
greater distance than under ordinary circumstances. The
dome of the U. S. capitol building is one example.
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Whisperingly
(gcide) | Whisperingly \Whis"per*ing*ly\, adv.
In a whisper, or low voice; in a whispering manner; with
whispers. --Tennyson.
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Whisperously
(gcide) | Whisperously \Whis"per*ous*ly\, adv.
Whisperingly. [R.]
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self-whispered
(wn) | self-whispered
adj 1: as if whispered to yourself |
stage whisper
(wn) | stage whisper
n 1: a loud whisper that can be overheard; on the stage it is
heard by the audience but it supposed to be inaudible to
the rest of the cast |
whisper
(wn) | whisper
n 1: speaking softly without vibration of the vocal cords [syn:
whisper, whispering, susurration, voicelessness]
2: a light noise, like the noise of silk clothing or leaves
blowing in the wind [syn: rustle, rustling, whisper,
whispering]
v 1: speak softly; in a low voice [ant: shout] |
whispered
(wn) | whispered
adj 1: spoken in soft hushed tones without vibrations of the
vocal cords; "a long whispered conversation" |
whisperer
(wn) | whisperer
n 1: one who speaks in a whisper |
whispering
(wn) | whispering
adj 1: making a low continuous indistinct sound; "like murmuring
waves"; "susurrant voices" [syn: murmuring,
susurrant, whispering]
n 1: a light noise, like the noise of silk clothing or leaves
blowing in the wind [syn: rustle, rustling, whisper,
whispering]
2: speaking softly without vibration of the vocal cords [syn:
whisper, whispering, susurration, voicelessness] |
whispering bells
(wn) | whispering bells
n 1: viscid herb of arid or desert habitats of southwestern
United States having pendulous yellow flowers [syn: {yellow
bells}, California yellow bells, whispering bells,
Emmanthe penduliflora] |
whispering campaign
(wn) | whispering campaign
n 1: the organized dissemination of derogatory rumors designed
to discredit a candidate |
whispering dome
(wn) | whispering dome
n 1: a space beneath a dome or arch in which sounds produced at
certain points are clearly audible at certain distant
points [syn: whispering gallery, whispering dome] |
whispering gallery
(wn) | whispering gallery
n 1: a space beneath a dome or arch in which sounds produced at
certain points are clearly audible at certain distant
points [syn: whispering gallery, whispering dome] |
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