abrupt sound
microsound
soughingly
tinkle
cheep
ping
sing
soft
voop
squeak
tootle
whisper
lowing
clipped
mutter
bleep
susurrous
rustling
murmurous
soughing
growl
plink
pitch pipe
quaver
pruck
sound clip
prevocalization
wobble
whistling
unrounded vowel
zoom
boom-boom
piano
short
pianissimo
syllabic
bong
quietly
-phone
thumping
phonomimetic
chiptune
pfft
staccato
rumble
earcon
pipe
whoomp
chugging
sounding
pit-a-pat
pad
unacoustic
rattle
noise
zing
whispered
low
slow
pink
delabialize
microsong
bass
prolonged sound
whiff
hummy
whirring
sough
whir
trillingly
birr
glide
whirr
howl
velar
croaking
ring
sotto voce
fricative
undertone
argute
continuant
twirp
nonnasal
tweet
sibilant
muter
susurration
beep
nonaspirate
strident
spirant
clipped
susurrous
rustling
murmurous
soughing
phonomimetic
sounding
unacoustic
whispered
hummy
sotto voce
fricative
argute
continuant
sibilant
strident
spirant
soughingly
quietly
low
pit-a-pat
trillingly
abrupt sound
microsound
cheep
ping
soft
voop
squeak
tootle
lowing
bleep
growl
plink
pitch pipe
quaver
pruck
sound clip
prevocalization
wobble
whistling
unrounded vowel
piano
short
pianissimo
syllabic
bong
thumping
chiptune
pfft
staccato
earcon
chugging
pit-a-pat
noise
zing
slow
microsong
bass
prolonged sound
whiff
whirring
sough
whir
birr
glide
whirr
howl
velar
croaking
ring
whisper
undertone
nonnasal
tweet
muter
susurration
beep
nonaspirate
tinkle
sing
ping
whisper
squeak
mutter
boom-boom
rumble
pipe
whoomp
rattle
pink
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twirp
tweet
noun
noun
noun
- A high-pitched, short and somewhat sharp sound.
- An email or other message sent requesting acknowledgement.
- Latency.
- A pulse of high-pitched or ultrasonic sound whose echoes provide information about nearby objects and vessels.
- A notification.
- A packet which a remote host is expected to echo, thus indicating its presence.
- A means of highlighting a feature on the game map so that allied players can see it.
verb
- To make a high-pitched, short and somewhat sharp sound.
- To send an email or other message to someone in hopes of eliciting a response.
- To flick.
- To cause something to bounce.
- To bounce.
- To emit a signal and then listen for its echo in order to detect objects.
- To call out audibly.
- To penalize.
- To send a packet in order to determine whether a host is present, particularly by use of the ping utility.
verb
- To make a small, shrill sound.
- To display fine qualities; to stand out as excellent.
- To be capable of being sung; to produce a certain effect by being sung.
- To soothe with singing.
- To confess under interrogation.
- In traditional Aboriginal culture, to direct a supernatural influence on (a person or thing), usually malign; to curse.
- To produce a 'song', for the purposes of defending a breeding territory or to attract a mate.
- To produce any type of melodious vocalisation.
- To produce musical or harmonious sounds with one’s voice.
- To express audibly by means of a harmonious vocalization.
- To perform a vocal part in a musical composition, regardless of technique.
- To relate in verse; to celebrate in poetry.
noun
noun
adj
- Of a ferromagnetic material; a material that becomes essentially non-magnetic when an external magnetic field is removed, a material with a low magnetic coercivity. (compare hard)
- Expressing gentleness or tenderness; mild; conciliatory; courteous; kind.
- Requiring little or no effort; easy.
- Voiced; sonant; lenis.
- Voiceless.
- Gentle.
- Lacking strength or resolve; not tough, wimpy.
- Low in dissolved calcium compounds.
- Smooth and flexible; not rough, rugged, or harsh.
- Easily giving way under pressure.
- Emulated with software; not physically real.
- Not likely to cause addiction.
- Not containing alcohol.
- Weak in character; impressible.
- Not harsh or offensive to the sight; not glaring or jagged; pleasing to the eye.
- Gentle in action or motion; easy.
- Incomplete, or temporary; not a full action.
- Effeminate.
- Of a market: having more supply than demand; being a buyer's market.
- softcore.
- Palatalized.
- Not bright or intense.
- Physically or emotionally weak.
- Foolish.
- Agreeable to the senses.
- Having a slight angle from straight.
- Made up of nonparallel rays, tending to wrap around a subject and produce diffuse shadows.
- Quiet.
verb
- To make a low, sibilant sound.
- 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 speak with suspicion or timorous caution; to converse in whispers, as in secret plotting.
- To mention privately and confidentially, or in a whisper.
noun
noun
- A similar sound made by a human.
- The rumbling sound made by a human's hungry stomach.
- An aggressive grumbling.
- A deep, rumbling, threatening sound made in the throat by an animal.
- A low-pitched rumbling sound produced with a wind instrument.
verb
- To play a wind instrument in a way that produces a low-pitched rumbling sound.
- To utter a deep guttural sound, as an angry animal; to give forth an angry, grumbling sound.
- Of a wind instrument: to produce a low-pitched rumbling sound.
- To send a user a message via the Growl software library.
- To express (something) by growling.
intj
- Representing a humming sound
- Suggesting something moving quickly
- Suggesting a sudden change, especially an improvement or an increase
verb
- To zoom climb.
- To move rapidly.
- To move fast with a humming noise.
- To change the focal length of a zoom lens.
- To manipulate a display so as to magnify or shrink it.
- To go up sharply.
- To participate in a video teleconferencing call.
noun
noun
- A short sound, syllable, or vowel.
- A short version of a garment in a particular size.
- A short film.
- A shortstop.
- A short seller.
- An automobile; especially in crack shorts, to break into automobiles.
- A short circuit.
- A short sale or short position.
- An integer variable having a smaller range than normal integers; usually two bytes long.
- A summary account.
prep
verb
- To shortchange.
- To provide with a smaller than agreed or labeled amount.
- To sell something, especially securities, that one does not own at the moment for delivery at a later date in hopes of profiting from a decline in the price; to sell short.
- To short circuit.
- To cause a short circuit in (something).
adj
- Abrupt; brief; pointed; petulant.
- bowled so that it bounces relatively far from the batsman.
- Of betting odds, offering a small return for the money wagered.
- Having little duration.
- that falls short of the green or the hole.
- Of comparatively small height.
- Limited in quantity; inadequate; insufficient; scanty.
- Of a word or phrase, constituting an abbreviation (for another) or shortened form (of another).
- Brittle, crumbly. (See shortbread, shortcake, shortcrust, shortening, hot short, cold-short.)
- Deficient; less; not coming up to a measure or standard.
- that is relatively close to the batsman.
- Undiluted; neat.
- Having a small distance from one end or edge to another, either horizontally or vertically.
- Insufficiently provided; inadequately supplied, especially with money; scantily furnished; lacking.
- Being in a financial investment position that is structured to be profitable if the price of the underlying security declines in the future.
- Doubtful of, skeptical of.
adv
noun
adj
- Of, or being a form of verse, based on the number of syllables in a line rather than on the arrangement of accents or quantities.
- Designating a sound that is or can be the most sonorant segment of a syllable, as a vowel or a resonant. In the word riddle ([ɹɪdl̩]), the two syllabic sounds are [ɪ] and [l̩].
- Pronounced with every syllable distinct.
- Of, relating to, or consisting of a syllable or syllables.
noun
- Any sound resembling a musical staccato.
- A passage having this mark.
- An articulation marking directing that a note or passage of notes are to be played in an abruptly disconnected manner, with each note sounding for a very short duration, and a short break lasting until the sounding of the next note; as opposed to legato. Staccato is indicated by a dot directly above or below the notehead.
adv
adj
verb
- To emit or have a shrill sound like that of a pipe; to whistle.
- To directly feed (the output of one program) as input to another program, indicated by the pipe character ([[Unsupported titles/Vertical line#Translingual||]]) at the command line.
- To install or configure with pipes.
- To create or decorate with piping (icing).
- To convey or transport (something) by means of pipes.
- Of a queen bee: to make a high-pitched sound during certain stages of development.
- To dab moisture away from.
- Of a metal ingot: to become hollow in the process of solidifying.
- To have sexual intercourse with a female.
- To order or signal by a note pattern on a boatswain's pipe.
- To lead or conduct as if by pipes, especially by wired transmission.
- To play (music) on a pipe instrument, such as a bagpipe or a flute.
- To shout loudly and at high pitch.
- To invent or embellish (a story).
noun
- A water pipe.
- Decorative edging stitched to the hems or seams of an object made of fabric (clothing, hats, curtains, pillows, etc.), often in a contrasting color; piping.
- The key or sound of the voice.
- An elongated or irregular body or vein of ore.
- The distance travelled between two rest periods during which one could smoke a pipe.
- An anonymous satire or essay, insulting and frequently libellous, written on a piece of paper which was rolled up and left somewhere public where it could be found and thus spread, to embarrass the author's enemies.
- A telephone.
- A tube used to produce sound in an organ; an organ pipe.
- The character [[Unsupported titles/Vertical line#Translingual||]].
- A high-pitched sound, especially of a bird.
- A mechanism that enables one program to communicate with another by sending its output to the other as input.
- A hollow stem with a bowl at one end used for smoking, especially a tobacco pipe but also including various other forms such as a water pipe.
- The contents of such a vessel, as a liquid measure, sometimes set at 126 wine gallons; half a tun.
- A type of pasta similar to macaroni.
- A tubular passageway in the human body such as a blood vessel or the windpipe.
- A man's penis.
- A rigid tube that transports water, steam, or other fluid, as used in plumbing and numerous other applications.
- One of the goalposts of the goal.
- A data backbone, or broadband Internet access.
- A large container for storing liquids or foodstuffs; now especially a vat or cask of cider or wine. (See a diagram comparing cask sizes.)
- A wind instrument consisting of a tube, often lined with holes to allow for adjustment in pitch, sounded by blowing into the tube.
- A vertical conduit through the Earth's crust below a volcano through which magma has passed, often filled with volcanic breccia.
adj
noun
- Any place or part of the ocean, or other water, where a sounding line will reach the bottom.
- The sand, shells, etc. brought up by the sounding lead when it has touched bottom.
- Test made with a probe or sonde.
- The action of the verb to sound.
- A measured depth of water.
- The act of inserting of a thin metal rod into the urethra of the penis for medical or sexual purposes
intj
verb
- To imbue uniformly with a mordant.
- To furnish with a pad or padding.
- To wear a path by walking.
- To stuff.
- To deliberately play the ball with the leg pad instead of the bat.
- To travel on foot.
- To travel along (a road, path etc.).
- To increase the size of, especially by adding undesirable filler.
- To walk softly, quietly or steadily, especially without shoes.
noun
- An electrical extension cord with a multi-port socket on one end: "trip cord"
- The mostly hairless flesh located on the bottom of an animal's foot or paw.
- A small house, apartment, or mobile home occupied by a single person; such as a bachelor, playboy, etc.
- Any cushion-like part of the human body, especially the ends of the fingers.
- A panel or strip of material designed to be sensitive to pressure or touch.
- A random key (originally written on a disposable pad) of the same length as the plaintext.
- A footpath, particularly one unformed or unmaintained; a road or track.
- A floating leaf of a water lily or similar plant.
- A soft cover for a batsman's leg that protects it from damage when hit by the ball.
- A soft, or small, cushion.
- The effect produced by sustained lower reed notes in a musical piece, most common in blues music.
- A flat surface or area from which a helicopter or other aircraft may land or be launched.
- A prison cell.
- A type of wickerwork basket, especially as used as a measure of fish or other goods.
- An easy-paced horse; a padnag.
- A cushion-like thickening of the skin on the under side of the toes of animals.
- A toad.
- A flattened mass of anything soft, to sit or lie on.
- A kind of cushion for writing upon, or for blotting, especially one formed of many flat sheets of writing paper; now especially such a block of paper sheets as used to write on.
- A soft bag or cushion to relieve pressure, support a part, etc.
- A synthesizer instrument sound used for sustained background sounds.
- A cushion used as a saddle without a tree or frame.
- A bed.
- A stuffed guard or protection, especially one worn on the legs of horses to prevent bruising.
- The sound of soft footsteps, or a similar noise made by an animal etc.
- The amount by which a signal has been reduced.
- A piece of timber fixed on a beam to fit the curve of the deck.
verb
noun
noun
- Any sound.
- Various sounds, usually unwanted or unpleasant.
- Sound or signal generated by random fluctuations.
- Any part of a signal or data that reduces the clarity, precision, or quality of the desired output.
- Speech that is suggestive of an attitude or opinion.
- A genre of rock music that uses static and other non-musical sounds, also influenced by art rock.
- The measured level of variation in gene expression among cells, regardless of source, within a supposedly identical population.
- Rumour or complaint.
- Unwanted fuss or bustle; useless activity.
verb
adv
- With a low voice or sound; not loudly; gently.
- In a low mean condition; humbly; meanly.
- In a time approaching our own.
- In a path near the equator, so that the declination is small, or near the horizon, so that the altitude is small; said of the heavenly bodies with reference to the diurnal revolution.
- Close to the ground.
- Under the usual price; at a moderate price; cheaply.
- Of a pitch, at a lower frequency.
adj
- Lacking health or vitality, strength or vivacity; feeble; weak.
- Situated close to, or even below, the ground or another normal reference plane; not high or lofty.
- Being a nadir, a bottom.
- Not high in status, esteem, or rank, dignity, or quality. (Compare vulgar.)
- Depleted, or nearing deletion; lacking in supply.
- Disparaging; assigning little value or excellence.
- Dead. (Compare lay low.)
- Having a small or comparatively smaller concentration of (a substance, which is often but not always linked by "in" when predicative).
- Below the batter's knees.
- Humble, meek, not haughty.
- Low-cut.
- Grave in pitch, due to being produced by relatively slow vibrations (wave oscillations); flat.
- Depressed in mood, dejected, sad.
- Favoring simplicity (see e.g. low church, Low Tory).
- Being near the equator.
- Quiet; soft; not loud.
- Pertaining to (or, especially of a language: spoken in) in an area which is at a lesser elevation, closer to sea level (especially near the sea), than other regions.
- Of less than normal height or upward extent or growth, or of greater than normal depth or recession; below the average or normal level from which elevation is measured.
- Made with a relatively large opening between the tongue and the palate; made with (part of) the tongue positioned low in the mouth, relative to the palate.
- Small, not high (in amount or quantity, value, force, energy, etc).
- Simple in complexity or development.
- Lesser in value than other cards, denominations, suits, etc.
- Designed for a slow (or the slowest) speed.
verb
noun
- An area of low pressure; a depression.
- The minimum atmospheric temperature recorded at a particular location, especially during one 24-hour period.
- A cheap, cost-efficient, or advantageous price.
- A period of depression; a depressed mood or situation.
- A flame; fire; blaze.
- A low point or position, literally (as, a depth) or or figuratively (as, a nadir, a time when things are at their worst, least, minimum, etc).
- The lowest trump, usually the deuce; the lowest trump dealt or drawn.
- The lowest-speed gearing of a power-transmission system, especially of an automotive vehicle.
- Barrow, mound, tumulus.
noun
adv
verb
- To keep from going quickly; to hinder the progress of.
- To become slow; to slacken in speed; to decelerate.
- To make (something) run, move, etc. less quickly; to reduce the speed of.
adj
- Behind in time; indicating a time earlier than the true time.
- Lacking spirit; deficient in liveliness or briskness.
- Not happening in a short time; spread over a comparatively long time.
- Of reduced intellectual capacity; not quick to comprehend.
- Not busy; lacking activity.
- Taking a long time to move or go a short distance, or to perform an action; not quick in motion; proceeding at a low speed.
- Not hasty; not tending to hurry; acting with deliberation or caution.
verb
- Of a musical instrument, to sound a very high-pitched, short note.
- To become pink in color, to redden.
- Of a motor car, to emit a high "pinking" noise, usually as a result of ill-set ignition timing for the fuel used (in a spark ignition engine).
- To turn (a topaz or other gemstone) pink by the application of heat.
- To decorate a piece of clothing or fabric by adding holes or by scalloping the fringe.
- To turn (something) pink.
- To prick with a sword.
- To wound by irony, criticism, or ridicule.
adj
- Having a colour between red and white; pale red.
- Having conjunctivitis.
- Relating to women or girls.
- Of a fox-hunter's jacket: scarlet.
- Relating to homosexuals as a group within society.
noun
- The common minnow, Phoxinus phoxinus.
- Hunting pink; scarlet, as worn by hunters.
- A young Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar, before it becomes a smolt; a parr.
- One of the colour balls used in snooker, coloured pink, with a value of 6 points.
- An unlettered and uncultured, but relatively prosperous, member of the middle classes; compare Babbitt, bourgeoisie.
- Any of various lake pigments or dyes in yellow, yellowish green, or brown shades made with plant coloring and a metallic oxide base.
- Any of various flowers in the genus Dianthus, sometimes called carnations.
- The colour of this flower, between red and white; pale red.
- The vagina or vulva.
noun
noun
- A low spectrum of sound tones.
- The clef sign that indicates that the pitch of the notes is below middle C; a bass clef.
- The perch; any of various marine and freshwater fish resembling the perch, all within the order of Perciformes.
- One who sings in the bass range.
- An instrument that plays in the bass range, in particular a double bass, bass guitar, electric bass or bass synthesiser.
- A section of musical group that produces low-pitched sound, lower than the baritone and tenor.
- Fibers from other plants, especially palm trees
- The fibrous inner bark of the linden or lime tree, used for making mats.
- Anything made from such fibers, such as a hassock, basket or thick mat.
verb
adj
noun
- A sound like that of air passing through a small opening; a short or soft whistle.
- A brief, gentle breeze; a light gust of air; a waft.
- A flag used as a signal.
- A short inhalation or exhalation of breath, especially when accompanied by smoke from a cigarette or pipe.
- An odour (usually unpleasant) carried briefly through the air.
- The name of a number of flatfish such as (dated) the lemon sole (Microstomus kitt) and now, especially, the megrim (Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis) and (with a descriptive word) a species of large-tooth flounder or sand flounder (family Paralichthyidae).
- A slight sign of something; a burst, a glimpse, a hint.
- A slight attack or touch.
- A characteristic quality of something; a flavour, a savour, a taste.
- A failure to hit a ball in various sports (for example, golf); a miss.
- A small quantity of cloud, smoke, vapour, etc.; specifically (obsolete), chiefly in take the whiff: a puff of tobacco smoke.
- From the batter's perspective: a strike.
- An outrigged boat for one person propelled by oar.
intj
verb
- To inhale or exhale (smoke from tobacco, etc.) from a cigarette, pipe, or other smoking implement; to smoke (a cigarette, pipe, etc.); to puff.
- To say (something) with an exhalation of breath.
- To breathe in or sniff (an odour); to smell.
- To carry or convey (something) by, or as by, a whiff or puff of air; to blow, puff, or waft away.
- Of a pitcher: to strike out (a batter); to fan.
- To be carried, or move as if carried, by a puff of air; to waft.
- To smoke a cigarette, pipe, or other smoking implement.
- Especially in baseball or golf: to completely miss hitting a ball; hence (baseball), of a batter: to strike out; to fan.
- To give off or have an unpleasant smell; to stink.
- To catch fish by dragging a handline near the surface of the water from a moving boat.
- To shoot (someone) with a firearm; hence, to assassinate or kill (someone).
- To smell; to sniff.
- To fail spectacularly.
- In fighting games, to execute a move that fails to hit the opponent.
- To move in a way that causes a light gust of air, or a whistling sound.
adj
noun
- The joining of two sounds without a break.
- An attack or preparatory movement made by sliding down the opponent’s blade, keeping it in constant contact.
- A bird, the glede or kite.
- A transitional sound, especially a semivowel.
- A smooth and sliding step in dancing the waltz.
- The act of gliding.
- A kind of cap affixed to the base of the legs of furniture to prevent it from damaging the floor.
verb
noun
- a characteristic sound
- a toroidal shape
- a rigid circular band of metal or wood or other material used for holding or fastening or hanging or pulling
- (chemistry) a chain of atoms in a molecule that forms a closed loop
- an association of criminals
- the sound of a bell ringing
- a platform usually marked off by ropes in which contestants box or wrestle
- jewelry consisting of a circlet of precious metal (often set with jewels) worn on the finger
- a strip of material attached to the leg of a bird to identify it (as in studies of bird migration)
verb
noun
- An auditory tone of low pitch or volume.
- A pale colour, or one seen underneath another colour.
- A low state of the physical faculties.
- An implicit message perceived subtly alongside, but not detracting noticeably from, the explicit message conveyed in or by a book, film, verbal dialogue or similar (contrast with overtone); an undercurrent.
verb
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