hiss

Object

• cockroach: Also a very good web page on hissing cockroaches.
• snake: Lying in a tight coil at the edge of the chasm is a hissing snake.
• noise: There were two gentle hissing noises coming out of both!
• sound: At the same time a faint hissing sound became audible.
• steam: A large brass boiler was sitting on a table, hissing steam.

Converse of object

• boo: A few weeks later one balmy summer evening I'm riding along on me Harley ( boo hiss!
• hear: By four we could hear the faint hiss of breakers on the shore.
• remove: Removing hiss, clicks and pops, rumble, and pitched hum.
• reduce: Dolby C works over a wider frequency range and reduces hiss by 15 to 18 dB.
• have: Both tracks sound fine although the English has more hiss.

Adjective modifier

• faint: By four we could hear the faint hiss of breakers on the shore.
• slight: Audio-wise, the mono soundtrack had a slight hiss prevalent, but it's not too distracting as a whole.

Modifying Another Word

• loudly: Then, flapping out of the doorway, six slimy green tentacles with snake heads emerged, hissing loudly.
• back: It was great fun hissing him, but greater fn when he hissed back!
• then: It went hiss then in a very low pitched voice that laughed ha ha ha ha ha!

Noun used with modifier

• tape: A light continuos noise filter was used to take the edge off the tape hiss.
• background: In the absence of a signal the radio being used to monitor will now return to the background hiss.

Used with why or when

when: The first pint didn't touch the sides but fizzled and hissed when it reached the dry sandy bottom of my belly.

Preposition: of

steam: There is a satisfying hiss of steam from the depths.

Followed by an intransitive particle

out: Guns being fired, tanks advance firing, battleships firing a broadside, gas hissing out of cylinders.