(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.
Wordless
Definition:
(a.) Not using words; not speaking; silent; speechless.
Example Sentences:
(1) The book is dedicated to her son, Slade, who died 18 months ago and in the face of whose death she found herself wordless.
(2) He shakes my hand with a wordless nod and I scribble a brief impression in my notebook: "glazed eyes".
(3) Think of the exquisitely framed West Texas landscapes that open No Country for Old Men, with more specks brought closer through the binoculars of Josh Brolin, or the wordless opening, stunning vistas and tactile set-pieces of period epic There Will Be Blood.
(4) From the makers of the beautiful and bleakly atmospheric Limbo, it’s another wordless game of mystery and discovery via exquisitely designed puzzles that require experimentation and lateral thinking to reach their “Eureka!” moments.
(5) However, place it on the floor and let your PlayStation peer at it (and you) through a camera, and everything springs to life on-screen, so instead of a loser with a wordless book of barcodes, you look like a magic wizard reading a magic book with all tentacles and pumpkins and lightning bolts flying out of it.
(6) They made an inscrutable, wordless art movie called Daft Punk's Electroma .
(7) Between interviews with the likes of Marianne, who designs "high-end doggy fashions" for expressionless bichon frise Lily, there are wordless montages of activity on the heath, the theme of each being, roughly, "dog".
(8) Her professional stock-in-trade as a stage and television actress was a voice that could have made a regimental sergeant major tremble and a figure, suggesting an ample corsage filled with concrete, that wordlessly and hilariously forbade the taking of liberties.
(9) A wordless cry went up somewhere in the crowd and they were off, moving as one, with no instructions, towards parliament.
(10) Wordless, but so content that my heart skipped a beat.
(11) The crowd sing along to every single song and 10,000 voices carry the wordless chorus of the closing "Wake Up" long after the group have departed the stage following their final encore.
(12) He eventually gets to us through the dark mutterings of "Peter on set" and the forest of physios, nurses, assistants and bottle washers, then settles laboriously upon the built-up khazi before getting up and wandering wordlessly off again.
(13) I would put on some things of the day, and he would go up to the record player and, wordlessly, just take it off!'
(14) My children were looking out of the car window at the hawkers – most of whom were about their age – who were shouting wordlessly and knocking on the glass, proffering their wares.
(15) Burton played the title role, while Taylor was the four-minute wordless apparition of Helen of Troy.
(16) So I nominate the scene in Persuasion in which Captain Wentworth wordlessly, and with none of their past grievous history resolved, assists a fatigued Anne Elliot into a carriage.
(17) I punch to break my opponent’s will and take him out.” Eubank Sr exclaims his approval with a wordless roar.
(18) Like Trump, they channel their own narcissism to give voice to the wordless, formless rage of the people neoliberalism left behind.
(19) In the mid-90s, Bogotá’s then-mayor, Antanas Mockus , employed more than 400 mime artists to stand guard at pedestrian crossings, showing wordless displeasure to reckless pedestrians and drivers who violated traffic rules and put lives at risk.
(20) Wordlessly the hangman steps back, places a hand on the lever which operates the trap, and gives a signal to the officers, who release Pascoe’s arms.