silent
IPA: sˈaɪɫʌnt
noun
- (uncountable) That which is silent; a time of silence.
- A silent movie
- (chiefly in the plural) A member of the Silent Generation.
- Acronym of syndrome of irreversible lithium-effectuated neurotoxicity.
adjective
- Free from sound or noise; absolutely still; perfectly quiet.
- Not speaking; indisposed to talk; speechless; mute; taciturn; not loquacious; not talkative.
- Keeping at rest; inactive; calm; undisturbed.
- (pronunciation) Not pronounced; having no sound; quiescent.
- Having no effect; not operating; inefficient.
- (technology) With the sound turned off; usually on silent or in silent mode.
- (technology) Without audio capability.
- Hidden, unseen.
- Of an edit or change to a text, not explicitly acknowledged.
- (genetics) Not implying significant modifications which would affect a peptide sequence.
- Undiagnosed or undetected because of an absence of symptoms.
- Of distilled spirit: having no flavour or odour.
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Examples of "silent" in Sentences
- Sometimes, to remain silent is to lie, since silence can be interpreted as assent.
- Just remember that the term silent migraine or acephalgic migraine is used to describe a migraine that does not have the headache pain.
- At one point, what we call the silent majority came to be aligned with the street protests at least from a humanitarian and moral point of view.
- With his freedom of movement severely curtailed he is not allowed to go for a walk even with bodyguards he embarked on what he calls a silent one to one combat.
- The term silent evidence comes from a book I am currently enjoying, entitled "Fooled by Randomness" by a former securities trader named Nassim Taleb. which I have mentioned before.
- Protesters chaining themselves to the White House gate on Monday, objecting to what they called the silent homophobia of those who purport to be our friends and do nothing, capped a tumultuous few days in the fight to repeal
- But alone among the major parties here, the Salafi candidates have embraced the powerful strain of populism that helped rally the public against the crony capitalism of the Mubarak era and seems at times to echo - like the phrase "silent majority" - right-wing movements in the United States and Europe.
- The cultural anthropologist Edward T Hall, who was in that circle, and studied what he called the silent languages of time and space, once pointed out to me that our most significant, most critical inventions were not those ever considered to be inventions, but those that appeared to be innate and natural.
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