What's the difference between hiss and kiss?

Hiss


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To make with the mouth a prolonged sound like that of the letter s, by driving the breath between the tongue and the teeth; to make with the mouth a sound like that made by a goose or a snake when angered; esp., to make such a sound as an expression of hatred, passion, or disapproval.
  • (v. i.) To make a similar noise by any means; to pass with a sibilant sound; as, the arrow hissed as it flew.
  • (v. t.) To condemn or express contempt for by hissing.
  • (v. t.) To utter with a hissing sound.
  • (n.) A prolonged sound like that letter s, made by forcing out the breath between the tongue and teeth, esp. as a token of disapprobation or contempt.
  • (n.) Any sound resembling that above described
  • (n.) The noise made by a serpent.
  • (n.) The note of a goose when irritated.
  • (n.) The noise made by steam escaping through a narrow orifice, or by water falling on a hot stove.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There is the sound of engines hissing and crackling, which have been mixed to seem as near to the ear as the camera was to the cars; there is a mostly unnoticeable rustle of leaves in the trees; periodically, so faintly that almost no one would register it consciously, there is the sound of a car rolling through an intersection a block or two over, off camera; a dog barks somewhere far away.
  • (2) When Trump described her father as a “tremendous champion of supporting families”, there were boos and hisses.
  • (3) Even if we have to wait in line for a hissing coffee machine.
  • (4) Feline affective defense behavior, characterized mainly by autonomic arousal, ear retraction, growling, hissing and paw striking, was elicited by electrical stimulation of the ventromedial hypothalamic nucleus (VMH).
  • (5) Ragged-red fibers with abnormal mitochondria, cerebral spongiosis mostly involving white matter, perimacular pigmentary retinopathy and scattered myocardial fibrosis interrupting the Hiss'bundle were found.
  • (6) Mutants that require histidine due to an altered structural gene for the histidyl-transfer ribonucleic acid synthetase (hisS) have been isolated by a general selection for histidine-requiring strains in which the mutation producing histidine auxotrophy is unlinked to the histidine operon.
  • (7) If that happens, Osborne will get the blame as the hissing becomes deafening.
  • (8) Other factors hiss their message more perniciously.
  • (9) Sure, the season’s story, which focuses on Vanessa Ives’s struggle to decode the “memoirs of the devil” and fight a hissing viper pit of Lucifer’s witches, may be pure pulp burlesque, but that’s just the first layer of Penny Dreadful’s charm.
  • (10) Supporters of the Tunisian national football team whistle and hiss at the French national anthem before the match.
  • (11) Hissing and directed attack were selected for threshold determination.
  • (12) The earphones were with Eva, 11, who was listening to the soundtrack of Glee at a loud enough level to produce that particularly annoying mixture of hiss and thud.
  • (13) For the 30 years I have followed Spurs to away games – in pubs, around tube stations, on the streets around the ground and within Stamford Bridge itself, the venom, ignorance and breathtaking casualness of Chelsea fans’ references to Jews, Auschwitz, the Holocaust and foreskins, often accompanied by a hissing simulation of gas chambers, is simply shocking – not least because it goes unchallenged by police, stewards or the club itself, bar a token reference furtively hidden away in the match-day programme.
  • (14) Most tourists satisfy themselves with a quick drive around the crater rim, stopping for photos at the viewing points, but if you really want to smell the sulphur, feel the heat of the lava and hear the hissing of the steam vents, a bike tour is perfect.
  • (15) Arthur had a hapless sidekick, Chester Drawers, who he’d humiliate roundly in front of an audience, then come off stage and double down on by hissing something like: “I’ve seen a monkey take a pie better than that!” Will May’s government soon be forced to undergo an emergency Borisectomy?
  • (16) The injection of the D1-selective antagonist SCH 23390 (0.3 nmol), however, did not inhibit apomorphine-induced facilitation of hissing.
  • (17) The somatic and autonomic displays which accompanied defensive behavior were similar between stimuli, consisting of mydriasis, piloerection, growling, hissing and paw strikes.
  • (18) (“He took the cork out and spilled a little on the wooden plank of the pier; it hissed like steam.”) Only later in the last century did the crime begin to be associated with the developing rather than the developed rather than the developed world, as a function of male oppression and feudalism, rather than the green-eyed cruelty of richer societies.
  • (19) That said, as we make our way up the stairs he lets out a hiss of air.
  • (20) Air hissed out, leading to normalisation of arterial and venous pressures.

Kiss


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To salute with the lips, as a mark of affection, reverence, submission, forgiveness, etc.
  • (v. t.) To touch gently, as if fondly or caressingly.
  • (v. i.) To make or give salutation with the lips in token of love, respect, etc.; as, kiss and make friends.
  • (v. i.) To meet; to come in contact; to touch fondly.
  • (v.) A salutation with the lips, as a token of affection, respect, etc.; as, a parting kiss; a kiss of reconciliation.
  • (v.) A small piece of confectionery.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The station programmer of the year went to Andy Roberts of dance station Kiss.
  • (2) You’ve got just as much right to be here as anyone else.” I could have kissed her.
  • (3) Summer Zervos: Apprentice contestant claims Trump kissed and groped her Read more “There’s an old principle,” said William Galston , a former adviser to Bill Clinton and now a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.
  • (4) Googlers in 2014 were also asking for tips on learning new skills, with the most popular being “how to draw”, followed by “how to kiss” and “how to crochet”.
  • (5) On stage at La Bastille after his election victory, footage showed that after Hollande gave Royal a kiss on the cheek, Trierweiler demanded of him: "Kiss me on the mouth."
  • (6) "Technically there's no reason why, just because I'm cut down there, I couldn't feel sexy when a guy is kissing me or touching my breasts.
  • (7) Thierry Henry with Youri Djorkaeff, kissing the World Cup after France’s triumph in Paris in 1998.
  • (8) Kiss, K. J. Sparks, W. S. Argraves, G. Hampikian, and P. F. Goetinck.
  • (9) I don’t really care how a candidate shakes hands and kisses babies.” An hour later, Bill and Hillary were on stage.
  • (10) Perhaps aware of her Marmite appeal, today Gaga is immediately on the charm offensive, giving me a kiss on arrival and complementing me on my shoes (at one point she bends down to stroke the material).
  • (11) Eady's initial ruling said there "can be no automatic priority accorded to freedom of speech" and that "as in so many 'kiss and tell' cases" there was no obvious justification in naming the player on public interest grounds.
  • (12) Bauer is proposing to run stations on the Sound Digital platform, including Heat Radio, Absolute 80s and Planet Rock, all of which are already well established on digital platforms, and Kiss spin-off, Kisstory.
  • (13) It feels like it was only yesterday that I was kicking Blue Jasmine down the stairs like Tommy Udo in Kiss Of Death.
  • (14) Because embedded in this otherwise innocuous kiss-and-tell is a devastating revelation about Hollande: "He presented himself," writes Trierweiler, "as the man who doesn't like the rich.
  • (15) At first, the sheer deluge of random faces, selfies, girls kissing other girls (is that a thing nowadays?)
  • (16) In the first year certain forms of "early beginnings of the kiss" can be recognized.
  • (17) I thought at the time he was a relative and then he started kissing her and running his hands up and down her arms and then started to molest here and there wasn't a think I could do about it because I was laid on my back," she told BBC News.
  • (18) But had she been allowed in unmolested there would have been a risk of some lesbian kissing going on.
  • (19) With Diego I wanted him to do a certain movement that he didn’t and I was disappointed and reacted and he reacted too, but at half-time in the dressing room there were a few kisses and cuddles,” Mourinho said after the game.
  • (20) That my first kiss could be in somebody else’s clothes.