What's the difference between clamor and silence?

Clamor


Definition:

  • (n.) A great outcry or vociferation; loud and continued shouting or exclamation.
  • (n.) Any loud and continued noise.
  • (n.) A continued expression of dissatisfaction or discontent; a popular outcry.
  • (v. t.) To salute loudly.
  • (v. t.) To stun with noise.
  • (v. t.) To utter loudly or repeatedly; to shout.
  • (v. i.) To utter loud sounds or outcries; to vociferate; to complain; to make importunate demands.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) So, too, does the law – one which Congressional Republicans, who routinely charge Obama with not enforcing immigration law, are now clamoring for him to ignore, and Obama remains just as eager to oblige them .
  • (2) Voters – even the liberal ones who helped Obama build a grassroots army – are clamoring for the finer points of a progressive candidacy.
  • (3) The "oral" clamor of deprivation and entitlement, together with dependency, submissiveness, and defensive uncertainty, serve a screening function for hostile aggressive wishes, from any developmental level.
  • (4) Get up, do something.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest A view to a thrill: supporters clamor to get close to the Donald.
  • (5) How long until there is a clamoring for a ground invasion in Iraq or Syria – or both – when the current strategy of airstrikes and a massive influx of arms inevitably fails?
  • (6) The purpose of the middle ear mechanism is no doubt the protection of the inner ear receptors (the amphibian and basilar papillae) from overstimulation by sounds, including the animal's own cries and the intense clamor produced by a group of frogs calling in chorus.
  • (7) Democrats clamor for credible Clinton challenger in wake of email revelations Read more Clinton, in her remarks before an adoring crowd of mostly women in New York, stuck with the usual.
  • (8) A Trumpist state could do much to soothe the crisis of capitalism: it could pour public dollars into discovering the next lucrative technology for the private sector while holding the line against the redistributive clamor of a rising millennial majority.
  • (9) There is a clear and present need for increased public clamor demanding carefully designed, risk-limiting human experiments (randomized clinical trials) to provide interpretable evidence of benefit and risks of innovations before these are adopted as desirable medical and social policy.
  • (10) On Saturday, a 24-year-old man died in CBSA custody in Edmonton, Alberta, in just the latest example of a system in need of repair, as activists clamor for independent oversight.
  • (11) From the the ratification of the 14th Amendment to the origins of the term “anchor babies” (used as “anchor children” to slur Vietnamese-American refugees – those immigrants that the GOP nowadays say came to this country the “right” way), to the present-day, birthright citizenship has always been a battlefield for politicians to try to deny citizenship to the latest non-whites clamoring to become American.
  • (12) Vicki Saporta, the president of the National Abortion Federation, a group of providers which clamored for the change, said on Wednesday that she was “delighted” by the change.
  • (13) There has been great clamor on this subject from many sources-the medical profession, the legal community, the legislatures, the judiciary, and the public.
  • (14) But he portrayed gun control as an issue on which Trump could “respond to a rally, which he also likes to do, and the rally is the American people, who are clamoring and demanding action”.
  • (15) To look at the polls, people are clamoring for what the Green Party is offering.
  • (16) One of the reasons the bill's progress has moved slowly is that most of farm country is enjoying a good agricultural economy, and farmers have not clamored for changes in policy.
  • (17) The purchasing and implementation of sophisticated medical data systems by hospitals, and the growing clamor from private health insurers and employers about the rapidly rising costs of health services has made determining the effectiveness of medical interventions a priority subject for many authorities in the field of medical care assessment.
  • (18) The command "Check your privilege" has become one of the great political rallying cries of 2013, and if you haven't heard it yet, you soon will, because it is fast slipping over from the social media sites – where it has become a clamorous chorus this year – to the mainstream media, largely thanks to journalists and certain former politicians who profess themselves to be baffled by its meaning.
  • (19) In the clamor of many institutional and special interest "orchestras," it is possible to lose sight of their common object of concern-human welfare and dignity.
  • (20) And as Glenn Greenwald writes , it’s inevitabley only a matter of time until there will be a clamoring from the chattering class for that, too.

Silence


Definition:

  • (n.) The state of being silent; entire absence of sound or noise; absolute stillness.
  • (n.) Forbearance from, or absence of, speech; taciturnity; muteness.
  • (n.) Secrecy; as, these things were transacted in silence.
  • (n.) The cessation of rage, agitation, or tumilt; calmness; quiest; as, the elements were reduced to silence.
  • (n.) Absence of mention; oblivion.
  • (interj.) Be silent; -- used elliptically for let there be silence, or keep silence.
  • (v. t.) To compel to silence; to cause to be still; to still; to hush.
  • (v. t.) To put to rest; to quiet.
  • (v. t.) To restrain from the exercise of any function, privilege of instruction, or the like, especially from the act of preaching; as, to silence a minister of the gospel.
  • (v. t.) To cause to cease firing, as by a vigorous cannonade; as, to silence the batteries of an enemy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) If Cory Bernardi wasn’t currently in a period of radio silence as he contemplates his immediate political future he’d be all over this too, mining the Trumpocalypse – or in our domestic context, mining the fertile political fault line where Coalition support intersects with One Nation support.
  • (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) So much of England possesses this grace and silence.
  • (4) Generally, more distant neurones (500-1300 microns) were excited for variable periods of time (3-15 min), while neurones in the vicinity of the injection site (0-500 microns) showed, after a brief period of excitation time, a long-lasting (up to 30 min) decrease in excitability or silencing of discharge, probably due to a depolarizing block and disturbances in the ionic composition of the extracellular space.
  • (5) Cameron has already announced there will be one minute’s silence on Friday at noon, a week after the start of the killing.
  • (6) In addition, he describes a type of transference interpretation that is better not made, and emphasizes the transference value of silence on the part of the analyst at certain crucial moments in the analysis.
  • (7) According to his blog, he's been acting on the advice of a friend and pursuing a course of "silence, exile and cunning", but I'm not sure a couple of years of not giving interviews to Heat qualifies.
  • (8) Transient ischemic electrical silence with Q waves in the absence of MI is a rare phenomenon and affects the anterior leads much more commonly than the inferior leads.
  • (9) But Clegg also says he is not going to be cowed into taking Cameron's vow of silence about Farage's assertion that he finds Britain unrecognisable and is uncomfortable at the lack of English spoken on commuter trains out of Charing Cross.
  • (10) The site's manifesto proclaims that "the goal … is to break down the wall of omertà and silence that protects the mafia … We call on all citizens: 'if you know something, say something'".
  • (11) That led to the second breakthrough, as the once formidable laws of omerta - silence punishable by death - cracked.
  • (12) 1:109-124, 1983) suggested that the insertion might have been selected to silence a disadvantageous bglR+ allele.
  • (13) He criticised attempts to create “safe spaces” by silencing controversial speakers such as Germaine Greer, who was recently targeted by students at the University of Cardiff for her position on transgender women.
  • (14) Von Trier, who took a " vow of silence " after being banned from the Cannes film festival in 2011 after joking about Nazism during a press conference for Melancholia, arrived at Nymphomaniac's photocall wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with the phrase "Persona Non Grata"; true to his word, he failed to attend the subsequent press conference where his actors and producer talked about the film.
  • (15) They were tested both in silence and against a background of continuous spoken Arabic presented at 75 dB(A).
  • (16) Our data indicate that these elements exert their effect irrespective of orientation and position, suggesting that they are silencers.
  • (17) The silence about Ji's fate was broken by his former boss, Nanjing party secretary Yang Weize.
  • (18) • The News of the World was ordered to hand over details of the secret agreement which it struck with Gordon Taylor in the earlier case as well agreements it has made withMulcaire which are alleged to have bought his silence.
  • (19) But the case is widely seen as a means of silencing the man who has become Putin's loudest critic.
  • (20) In the silence, I heard a car reversing in the courtyard and then the Þrst slow notes of the call to prayer.