(v. t.) To render calm or quiet; to calm; to still; to appease.
(v. t.) To keep from motion, or stop the progress of, by the stilling of the wind; as, the fleet was becalmed.
Example Sentences:
(1) This is what we imagined: the becalmed beauty of the Whitsunday Passage, that spectacular collection of islands protectively nestled inside the Great Barrier Reef, safe from prevailing winds; bright blue languid days gliding over turquoise waters, taking turns at the tiller in our togs; finding our own private cove as the sun goes down; diving into warm pristine waters; the tinkling of intimate laughter; the fizz of champagne and the sizzle of prawns on the barbie.
(2) With the government becalmed, the NT administrator could not answer who – if anyone – was leading the territory, the ABC said.
(3) I put to him that if there was a need for consolidation or a major rescue ... that we couldn't have a bank like Northern Rock that was sitting becalmed for nine months while the competition investigation went on."
(4) The move to create a new regulator has become becalmed as both press and government mull over the unsatisfactory and botched detail of the royal charter which is intended to enshrine its governance and independence.
(5) This is about questions of allocating prosecutorial resources, so a new attorney general who’s really committed to making big changes can make those big changes.” Sessions has been becalmed, however, by the sluggish pace with which his department has hired key personnel.
(6) Stoke City v Liverpool: Capital One Cup, semi-final first leg – as it happened Read more 4 ) Britannia support refuses to be becalmed The prospect of the Britannia Stadium roar propelling Hughes’s men on under the midweek lights had the manager enthused.
(7) With Mata having a poor game and Rooney constantly misplacing or mistiming his passes, United were becoming becalmed in midfield in the late summer sunshine, and Adnan Januzaj seemed a likelier choice to inject more urgency and invention.
(8) The authors conclude that BECALM chemotherapy can be administered to elderly patients with aggressive NHL.
(9) However, for intermediate to high grade aggressive NHL, dose-reduced CHOP regimen, or non- or low-dose methotrexate-containing programs like BECALM, CNOP, and low dose-ACOP-B are acceptable.
(10) Mourinho will wonder how his midfield, with Ramires relatively becalmed, could be overrun from the moment Draxler charged forward on the stroke of half-time, eking space from Gary Cahill before dragging a shot marginally wide of the far post.
(11) But in 2012, just as the opportunity comes to make a show of Britain's progress before a global audience, the disability movement finds itself at a crossroads – and, some say, becalmed.
(12) Miliband is becalmed while the Tories are rudderless.
(13) This has his team (and opposition) becoming becalmed, the quality nosediving.
(14) The policy of becalming the education world in the run-up to the general election is clearly working.
(15) Instead they were becalmed, much like the slumbering outfit Van Gaal so often sends out.
(16) There is an undercurrent of tension abroad in the otherwise sublimely becalmed Dorset town of Bridport.
(17) A third victim, Murray Goodwin, becalmed and frustrated, was soon lbw.
(18) National health program legislation has been becalmed in the Congress for almost 80 years.
(19) Such angry chatter broke the stillness of a recent frost-becalmed morning in the fields.
(20) When Springsteen recognised the need to drag himself out of a becalmed period at the start of the new millennium, it was to Seeger's music that he turned for inspiration.
Quiet
Definition:
(a.) In a state of rest or calm; without stir, motion, or agitation; still; as, a quiet sea; quiet air.
(a.) Free from noise or disturbance; hushed; still.
(a.) Not excited or anxious; calm; peaceful; placid; settled; as, a quiet life; a quiet conscience.
(a.) Not giving offense; not exciting disorder or trouble; not turbulent; gentle; mild; meek; contented.
(a.) Not showy; not such as to attract attention; undemonstrative; as, a quiet dress; quiet colors; a quiet movement.
(a.) The quality or state of being quiet, or in repose; as an hour or a time of quiet.
(a.) Freedom from disturbance, noise, or alarm; stillness; tranquillity; peace; security.
(v. t.) To stop motion in; to still; to reduce to a state of rest, or of silence.
(v. t.) To calm; to appease; to pacify; to lull; to allay; to tranquillize; as, to quiet the passions; to quiet clamors or disorders; to quiet pain or grief.
(v. i.) To become still, silent, or calm; -- often with down; as, be soon quieted down.
Example Sentences:
(1) The adaptive filter processor was tested for retrospective identification of artifacts in 20 male volunteers who performed the following specific movements between epochs of quiet, supine breathing: raising arms and legs (slowly, quickly, once, and several times), sitting up, breathing deeply and rapidly, and rolling from a supine to a lateral decubitus position.
(2) More evil than Clocky , the alarm clock that rolls away when you reach out to silence it, or the Puzzle Alarm , which makes you complete a simple puzzle before it'll go quiet, the Money Shredding Alarm Clock methodically destroys your cash unless you rouse yourself.
(3) A man wearing a badge that says "property team" quietly parries some of her points, but chooses not to engage with others.
(4) 133 Hatfield Street, +27 21 462 1430, nineflowers.com The Fritz Hotel Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Fritz is a charming, slightly-faded retreat in a quiet residential street – an oasis of calm yet still in the heart of the city, with the bars and restaurants of Kloof Street five minutes’ walk away.
(5) To be sure, when Russia withdrew Cuba's only deterrent against ongoing US attack with a severe threat to proceed to direct invasion and quietly departed from the scene, the Cubans would be infuriated – as they were, understandably.
(6) In north-west Copenhagen, among the quiet, graffiti-tagged streets of red-brick blocks and low-rise social housing bordering the multi-ethnic Nørrebro district, police continued to cordon off roads and search a flat near the spot where officers killed a man believed to be behind Denmark’s bloodiest attacks in over a decade.
(7) When she speaks, it is in a quiet, clear voice that is middle-class but also flat and London-inflected enough to seem almost classless: it is the voice of the modern southern English professional.
(8) It was quiet on the main Manshiya front near the border with Jordan, which he said had been the site of some of the heaviest army bombing in recent weeks.
(9) The reverberation times were 2.1 and 1.6 s. In quiet conditions at normal speech level (60 dBA), the perception was better without earmuffs than with them.
(10) (BBC) "I received the letter two months ago and was told to keep quiet about it or it might be taken away, so my wife and I kept quiet about it.
(11) This comparison shows that: (1) evaluation of sleep states by CPG technique is only reliable for quiet sleep and (2) there was a significant difference in the number of pauses, the evaluation with PSG being systematically higher than with CPG.
(12) Quiet crisis: why battle to prop up Italy's banks is vital to EU stability Read more The country’s third-largest lender has already been bailed out twice in modern Italian history but is likely to need a third multibillion-euro intervention by the Italian government – a move that would need Brussels to break new rules designed to prevent such taxpayer bailouts after the 2008 global financial crisis.
(13) The vast majority of members would rather have a quiet body, offering technical assistance here and there and convening an occasional summit.
(14) The Guardian's Xan Brooks described Fruitvale Station as a "quietly gripping debut feature" in which "one has the sense of a man being slowly, surely written back into being" after the film's Cannes screening in May.
(15) The matter of clothing is closely related to another of Wimbledon’s quiet triumphs: the almost total lack of corporate graffiti in the form of logos and advertising.
(16) Any patient with a fairly symmetrical 'quiet' eye disease, especially if congenital, should be suspected of having an hereditary disease--presumably due to a recessive gene, even if the parents are not consanguineous, but possibly due to a mutation which could prove dominant; a search of the literature in such cases is useful.
(17) The streets of Libreville, the central African country’s seaside capital, were eerily quiet on Friday evening.
(18) I’ve seen so much in London, almost too much,” she says quietly.
(19) But minutes after the final whistle, 76% of respondents to a Corriere della Sport online poll were blaming Lippi and in the post-match press conference the man himself was quick to take the blame, appearing to be anxiously awaiting the moment he can disappear quietly from the scene to be replaced by the Fiorentina manager, Cesare Prandelli, a switch decided with little fuss and no media debate just before the World Cup.
(20) After PCPA, the amplitude of auditory-evoked LGN PGO waves increased during quiet waking (QW) while those in non-REM and REM sleep states did not change.