silence
IPA: sˈaɪɫʌns
noun
- The absence of any sound.
- The act of refraining from speaking.
- (rare) A female given name from English.
verb
- (transitive) To make (someone or something) silent.
- (transitive) To repress the expression of something.
- (transitive) To suppress criticism, etc.
- (molecular biology) To block gene expression.
- (euphemistic) To murder.
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Examples of "silence" in Sentences
- I think their silence is an example of good old Canadian patriotism.
- “The most likely outcome of this silence is a raise,” Chapman writes.
- Margaret's goal was always to get away from the crowds and experience what she referred to as the silence of the woods.
- To this day, when a glass drops, she's reflexively brought back to what she describes as a "silence of death all around."
- You have to look at yourself naked in silence, which is why television, radio, and any other distractions are so popular with society.
- Whatever the cause might be of the diffidence Mr. Harris sees in the approach of scientists to issues of value and morality, their silence is the sine qua non of arguments like his.
- Now, of these four modes of misleading others by the tongue, when there is a _justa causa_ (supposing there can be such) -- a material lie, that is an untruth which is not a lie, an equivocation, an evasion, and silence, -- First, I have no difficulty whatever in recognizing as allowable the method of _silence_.
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