(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.
Whist
Definition:
(interj.) Be silent; be still; hush; silence.
(n.) A certain game at cards; -- so called because it requires silence and close attention. It is played by four persons (those who sit opposite each other being partners) with a complete pack of fifty-two cards. Each player has thirteen cards, and when these are played out, he hand is finished, and the cards are again shuffled and distributed.
(v. t.) To hush or silence.
(v. i.) To be or become silent or still; to be hushed or mute.
(a.) Not speaking; not making a noise; silent; mute; still; quiet.
Example Sentences:
(1) We may be sexting, Tindering and OK Cupid-ing until our iPhones burn our palms, but when it comes to physical consummation, for many of us, sex has gone the same way as whist drives and tea dances.
(2) I used to go on holiday with my friend Jessica and her family and, in among riotous games of whist and races on the beach, I remember her, after a tearful row over a packet of biscuits that had been unfairly distributed, slamming the bedroom door and hurling herself on to the bottom bunk.
(3) How to reproduce the bonding hilarity of a nightmare game of three-handed whist for two players without cards in the dark?