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• n  speaking softly without vibration of the vocal cords
• n  a light noise, like the noise of silk clothing or leaves blowing in the wind
• v  speak softly; in a low voice

• An exciting bit of atomic gossip was loudly whispered about last week through Washington's resonant corridors.
• You whisper about a friend who admitted she had the plague and whose neighbors stoned her to death.
• Lord Curzon called across the sea in a stage whisper to America:.

• whispering
• susurration
• voicelessness
• rustle
• rustling

• shout

News & Articles

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• Throwing his voice
  Whisper Lopez, left, and Glenn Schleve, right, learned one of the secrets of being a ventriloquist from Wayne Francis during the Lied Scottsbluff Public Library’s summer reading program kickoff event
  June 14, 2013 - Scottsbluff Star-Herald
• Life on the cutting edge
  Cutting. Heat with radiating lines and the sizzling sound that accompanies it, attacks every available surface. My skin is already starting to become hot to the touch. The intense white sun beats down on the pale skin of my body and I sigh. I can hear the songs of the birds returned from winter. Their bright songs call to a smile inside me. I can hear the whisper of the leaves on the breeze ...
  June 14, 2013 - Standard-Examiner
• Watch: Apple’s Poetic Statement On Its Design Process
  Minimalist? Simple? Flat? In this video, Apple reminds the world that its design goes beyond Bauhaus sensibility. At WWDC, the lights went down, the hollers went up, and then Apple played this video in a near whisper. In that moment, I thought it was mistimed. It was too much of a love-in intro to an event with so much electricity in the air, and it clearly contained a poetic subtlety that ...
  June 13, 2013 - Fast Company Magazine

Quotes

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• Barack Obama in AHN
  What began as a whisper in Springfield soon carried across the corn fields of Iowa, where farmers and factory workers; students and seniors stood up in numbers we've never seen,Obama added. "They stood up to say that maybe this year, we...
• Vice President Dick Cheney in 570 News
  He'd probably be fearful I might whisper in his ear and change his whole view of the Middle East,Cheney said.
• Bono in Reuters
  Some can sing opera; Luciano Pavarotti WAS an opera,Bono said on his Web site. "I spoke to him last week ...... the voice that was louder than any rock band was a whisper."