soft voice
1The Soft Voice of the Serpent — and Other Stories is a short story collection by Nadine Gordimer. It was first published in 1952 by Simon Schuster.tories*The Soft Voice of the Serpent *The Catch *The Kindest Thing to Do *The Hour and the Years *The Train From Rhodesia *A… …
2soft — [sôft, säft] adj. [ME < OE softe, gentle, quiet < sefte, akin to Ger sanft < IE base * sem , together, together with > SMOOTH, SAME: basic sense “fitting, friendly, suited to”] 1. giving way easily under pressure, as a feather pillow… …
3soft — adj Soft, bland, mild, gentle, smooth, lenient, balmy are applied to things with respect to the sensations they evoke or the impressions they produce and mean pleasantly agreeable because devoid of all harshness or roughness. Soft is applied… …
4soft´ly — soft «sft, soft», adjective, adverb, noun, interjection. –adj. 1. a) not hard; yielding readily to touch or pressure: »a soft tomato, soft ground, a soft bed. b) easily bent without breaking; not stiff; flexible: »Oil keeps leather soft.… …
5soft´-spo´ken|ness — soft spo|ken «SFT SPOH kuhn, SOFT », adjective. 1. speaking with a soft voice. 2. Figurative. persuasive: »a bland, soft spoken scoundrel. 3. spoken softly: »a soft spoken reproof. –soft´ spo´ken|ness, noun …
6soft-spo|ken — «SFT SPOH kuhn, SOFT », adjective. 1. speaking with a soft voice. 2. Figurative. persuasive: »a bland, soft spoken scoundrel. 3. spoken softly: »a soft spoken reproof. –soft´ spo´ken|ness, noun …
7soft — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. supple, pliant; faint, low; kind, lenient; easy. See softness, faintness, leniency, facility. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Pliable] Syn. malleable, pliant, elastic; see flexible 1 . 2. [Soft to the… …
8soft — softly, adv. softness, n. /sawft, soft/, adj., softer, softest, n., adv., interj. adj. 1. yielding readily to touch or pressure; easily penetrated, divided, or changed in shape; not hard or stiff: a soft pillow. 2. relatively deficient in… …
9voice*/*/*/ — [vɔɪs] noun I 1) [C/U] the sounds that someone makes when they speak, or the way that someone speaks We could hear voices in the next apartment.[/ex] The woman at the desk greeted him in a bored voice.[/ex] The children were very well behaved,… …
10Voice over Internet Protocol — (VoIP, IPAEng|vɔɪp) is a protocol optimized for the transmission of voice through the Internet or other packet switched networks. VoIP is often used abstractly to refer to the actual transmission of voice (rather than the protocol implementing… …
