What's the difference between outgoing and quiet?

Outgoing


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Outgo
  • (n.) The act or the state of going out.
  • (n.) That which goes out; outgo; outlay.
  • (n.) The extreme limit; the place of ending.
  • (a.) Going out; departing; as, the outgoing administration; an outgoing steamer.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Schneiderlin, valued at an improbable £27m, and the currently injured Jay Rodriguez are wanted by their former manager Mauricio Pochettino at Spurs, but the chairman Ralph Krueger has apparently called a halt to any more outgoings, saying: “They are part of the core that we have decided to keep at Southampton.” He added: “Jay Rodriguez and Morgan Schneiderlin are not for sale and they will be a part of our club as we enter the new season.” The new manager Ronald Koeman has begun rebuilding by bringing in Dusan Tadic and Graziano Pellè from the Dutch league and Krueger said: “We will have players coming in, we will make transfers to strengthen the squad.
  • (2) I am rooting hard for you.” Ronald Reagan simply told his former vice-president Bush: “Don’t let the turkeys get you down.” By 10.30am Michelle Obama and Melania Trump will join the outgoing and incoming presidents in a presidential limousine to drive to the Capitol.
  • (3) As luck would have it, the outgoing Bartlet and his successor, Matt Santos, are currently dealing with a foreign crisis, too.
  • (4) Outgoing from the theory of the rotatory nystagmus based on the rotation test of the human vestibular system the fundamentels are developed for a complete evaluation method of an electronystagmogram including the elimination of artefacts by the authors' own research work in this field.
  • (5) They were outgoing, predominantly female, and tended to perceive themselves as independent.
  • (6) Tony Pulis hopes his only transfer business before the close of play at 11pm on Monday is incoming rather than outgoing at West Bromwich Albion but the manager has warned against unrealistic expectations if Saido Berahino remains after the striker marked his return with two goals.
  • (7) Israel's outgoing president, Shimon Peres, and his successor, Reuven Rivlin, promised in a joint editorial published in Yedioth Ahronoth, the country's best-selling newspaper, on Monday that there would be no cover-up in the investigation of Abu Khdeir's death.
  • (8) Not on the basis of things they can't do anything about' Dame Marjorie Scardino, outgoing chief executive of Financial Times owner Pearson 'I think it is probably wrong on balance to force companies to take women on' Karren Brady, West Ham Utd vice chairman, Kerrang!
  • (9) Rose was packed off to a convent boarding school aged eight or nine, a spectacularly inappropriate choice for a girl who was already free spirited, outgoing and passionate about art.
  • (10) A transformation of the corrupt economy could take up to two decades, and opium production is likely to climb beyond 2013's worrying levels before it falls again, said Jean-Luc Lemahieu, outgoing head of the UN office on drugs and crime in Afghanistan .
  • (11) Lewis, who took over this month with a £1.25m basic salary and a £525,000 golden hello in lieu of his Unilever bonus, admitted the revelations had been “a body blow” and said outgoing chairman Sir Richard Broadbent had asked him to look at executive bonuses.
  • (12) Her warm-up act was outgoing first minister Alex Salmond and a succession of rock bands.
  • (13) Mike Geoghegan, the outgoing chief executive of HSBC, got his defence in first today, declaring "universal banking works" as he hit out against new rules from international regulators in Basel .
  • (14) Other names circulating in EU capitals for the top commission job include the Irish prime minister, Enda Kenny, the outgoing Finnish prime minister on the centre-right, Jyrki Katainen, and the Danish prime minister on the centre-left, Helle Thorning-Schmidt.
  • (15) They also accessed billing data for the conspirators and alleged conspirators’ phones, showing the date and time of incoming and outgoing calls, as well as geographical data about where the calls were made.
  • (16) It's not like Sheffield and Leeds, which can be outgoing and brassy."
  • (17) On the defensive side of the football, the South Florida club also added former Houston Texans DT Earl Mitchell (4-years, $16m), who’ll go someway to replacing outgoing veterans Paul Soliai and Randy Starks.
  • (18) If you met my two sisters, they're incredibly outgoing, incredibly confident.
  • (19) Targets for prospective MPs the following year will include Norwich South, where the sitting Lib Dem has a majority of just 310 votes and where Ramsay, outgoing deputy, came fourth.
  • (20) The outgoing president of Afghanistan , Hamid Karzai, said: "I welcome those announcements and I hope that the 100% audit of the votes will take place and start as soon as possible.” Kerry said Karzai was "willing to stay the course" until a delayed inauguration for his successor could be held.

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.