Translation for '
wail' from English to Portuguese
NOUN | a wail | wails | |
VERB | to wail | wailed | wailed wailing | wails | |
SYNO | lament | lamentation | plaint | ... |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
VERB to infinitive | simple past | past participle
present participle | 3rd person
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- "Cease to wail and brawl!
- The Lamia has a defensive/attack ability which involves them emitting ultra-high-frequency sound from their throats, a wail which disorients and pains any humans who hear it, allowing the victims to be taken on board the ships for experimentation without resistance.
- The song starts with Tyler imitating a cat's wail.
- The reason for this is that in pre-Islamic Arabia it was customary for grieving women to wail loudly.
- Tsitsi Dangarembga's "Nervous Conditions", set in post-colonial Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) gives an account of the death wail.
- For example, on a clear road, "wail" (a long up-and-down unbroken tone) is often used, whereas in heavy slow traffic or at intersections, "yelp" (essentially a sped-up wail) may be preferred.
- If this is done while the siren is wailing (rather than sounding a steady tone) then it is called a pulse wail.
- Nostalgia may also result from the long, lonesome wail of the train's horn, which mimics vocalizations that want for a more simple time reminiscent of home, as heard in country or folk music worldwide.
- Williams' singing helped make the Ward Singers nationally popular when they began recording in 1948, and also inspired rock and roll pioneer Little Richard's signature wail.
- The craft have visual signaling devices (flashing blue lights) and siren (electromechanic wail, also known as whistle or Hi-Lo).
- The bush stone-curlew is probably heard more than it is seen. Its call sounds like a wail or a scream in the night. When scared, it screeches – a sound similar to the screech of a possum.
- The shiny swords silvering [...] make the devils wail.
- In black-and-white ruffed lemurs, "pulsed squawks" sometimes slow down as the group calms down, and integrate with the "wail", creating "pulsed squawk-wail intermediates" [...].
- These translators agree that "ge" means "sing; song" but differ over whether "xiao" means "whistle", "chant", and "croon; wail".
- Amongst the crowd at this event, "professional mourners" can be seen; these are invariably men in drag, who wail for comic effect.
- The verbs in -αιω are derived with the -i̯e-/-i̯o-suffix from roots ending in u̯: καίω < *καϝ-i̯o- ‘to burn’; κλαίω < *κλαϝ-i̯o- ‘to weep, wail’.
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