(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.
Still
Definition:
(v. i.) To drop, or flow in drops; to distill.
(adv.) Motionless; at rest; quiet; as, to stand still; to lie or sit still.
(adv.) Uttering no sound; silent; as, the audience is still; the animals are still.
(adv.) Not disturbed by noise or agitation; quiet; calm; as, a still evening; a still atmosphere.
(adv.) Comparatively quiet or silent; soft; gentle; low.
(adv.) Constant; continual.
(adv.) Not effervescing; not sparkling; as, still wines.
(n.) Freedom from noise; calm; silence; as, the still of midnight.
(n.) A steep hill or ascent.
(a.) To this time; until and during the time now present; now no less than before; yet.
(a.) In the future as now and before.
(a.) In continuation by successive or repeated acts; always; ever; constantly; uniformly.
(a.) In an increasing or additional degree; even more; -- much used with comparatives.
(a.) Notwithstanding what has been said or done; in spite of what has occured; nevertheless; -- sometimes used as a conjunction. See Synonym of But.
(a.) After that; after what is stated.
(a.) To stop, as motion or agitation; to cause to become quiet, or comparatively quiet; to check the agitation of; as, to still the raging sea.
(a.) To stop, as noise; to silence.
(a.) To appease; to calm; to quiet, as tumult, agitation, or excitement; as, to still the passions.
(v.) A vessel, boiler, or copper used in the distillation of liquids; specifically, one used for the distillation of alcoholic liquors; a retort. The name is sometimes applied to the whole apparatus used in in vaporization and condensation.
(v.) A house where liquors are distilled; a distillery.
(v. t.) To cause to fall by drops.
(v. t.) To expel spirit from by heat, or to evaporate and condense in a refrigeratory; to distill.
Example Sentences:
(1) He still denied it and said he was giving the girl a lift.
(2) The percentage of people with less than 10 TU titers is under 5% after the age of 5 years up to 15 years; from 15 to 60 years there are no subjects with undetectable ASO titer and after this age the percentage is still under 5%.
(3) Some common eye movement deficits, and concepts such as 'the neural integrator' and the 'velocity storage mechanism', for which anatomical substrates are still sought, are introduced.
(4) The findings indicate that there is still a significant incongruence between the value structure of most family practice units and that of their institutions but that many family practice units are beginning to achieve parity of promotion and tenure with other departments in their institutions.
(5) Although Jeggo's Chinese hamster ovary cells were more responsive to mAMSA, novo still abrogated mAMSA toxicity in the mutant cells as well as in the parental Chinese hamster ovary cells 2,4-Dinitrophenol acted similarly to novo with respect to mAMSA killing, but neither compound reduced the ATP content of V79 cells.
(6) Cyanoacrylate and PDS coatings were not detectable after 6 weeks while PHBA and PLLA coatings were still observed after 48 weeks.
(7) Jonker kept sticking his nose in the corner and not really cooperating, but then came a moment of stillness.
(8) Despite of the increasing diagnostic importance of the direct determination of the parathormone which is at first available only in special institutions in these cases methodical problems play a less important part than the still not infrequent appearing misunderstanding of the adequate basic disease.
(9) However, the mechanism of the inhibitory action is still somewhat uncertain.
(10) ), nosological frontiers are still unclear and accordingly justify a comparative serological study of M.M., W.M., and B.M.G.
(11) We are pursuing legal action because there are still so many unanswered questions about the viability of Shenhua’s proposed koala plan and it seems at this point the plan does not guarantee the survival of the estimated 262 koalas currently living where Shenhua wants to put its mine,” said Ranclaud.
(12) Diagnostic work-up and management of intracranial arachnoid cysts are still controversial.
(13) The following conclusions emerge: (i) when the 3' or the 3' penultimate base of the oligonucleotide mismatched an allele, no amplification product could be detected; (ii) when the mismatches were 3 and 4 bases from the 3' end of the primer, differential amplification was still observed, but only at certain concentrations of magnesium chloride; (iii) the mismatched allele can be detected in the presence of a 40-fold excess of the matched allele; (iv) primers as short as 13 nucleotides were effective; and (v) the specificity of the amplification could be overwhelmed by greatly increasing the concentration of target DNA.
(14) Madrid now hopes that a growing clamour for future rescues of Europe's banks to be done directly, without money going via governments, may still allow it to avoid accepting loans that would add to an already fast-growing national debt.
(15) New indications are still being investigated, for example in focal tremors and spasticity.
(16) BT Sport's marketing manager, Alfredo Garicoche, is more effusive still: "We're not thinking for the next two or three years, we're thinking for the next 20 or 30 years and even longer.
(17) Its pathogenesis, still incompletely elucidated, involves the precipitation of immune complexes in the walls of the all vessels.
(18) Even if it were not the case that police use a variety of tricks to keep recorded crime figures low, this data would still represent an almost meaningless measure of the extent of crime in society, for the simple reason that a huge proportion of crimes (of almost all sorts) have always gone unreported.
(19) The data shows a dissociation between ferritin synthesis, cellular accumulation and secretion for which the mechanisms have still to be elucidated.
(20) John Lewis’s marketing, advertising and reputation are all built on their promises of good customer services, and it is a large part of what still drives people to their stores despite cheaper online outlets.