(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.
Worship
Definition:
(a.) Excellence of character; dignity; worth; worthiness.
(a.) Honor; respect; civil deference.
(a.) Hence, a title of honor, used in addresses to certain magistrates and others of rank or station.
(a.) The act of paying divine honors to the Supreme Being; religious reverence and homage; adoration, or acts of reverence, paid to God, or a being viewed as God.
(a.) Obsequious or submissive respect; extravagant admiration; adoration.
(a.) An object of worship.
(v. t.) To respect; to honor; to treat with civil reverence.
(v. t.) To pay divine honors to; to reverence with supreme respect and veneration; to perform religious exercises in honor of; to adore; to venerate.
(v. t.) To honor with extravagant love and extreme submission, as a lover; to adore; to idolize.
(v. i.) To perform acts of homage or adoration; esp., to perform religious service.
Example Sentences:
(1) The author discusses marriages in which a basically insecure husband plays a god-like role and his wife, who initially worshipped him, matures and finds her situation depressing and degrading.
(2) If you worship money and things - if they are where you tap real meaning in life - then you will never have enough.
(3) At first hardline Islamist groups, and later the country’s religious establishment, had been calling for the statue’s removal, on the grounds that its presence was an example of idol worship, forbidden in Islam .
(4) At a press conference held outside the temple on Sunday, Oak Creek police chief John Edwards said the "heroic actions" of the two officers "stopped this from being worse than it could have been", noting that many people had gathered for worship at the time of the attack.
(5) The idea that churches should only be places of worship is quite a modern view,” says Matthew McKeague, head of regeneration at the Churches Conservation Trust.
(6) Lauren was my only daughter and I worshipped the ground she walked on and this person was hiding behind a computer.
(7) Likewise, Hippocrates, the father of western medicine, prescribed sun worship as a vital constituent of heath and had a solarium installed on the island of Kos.
(8) Having narrowly avoided taking the state into the realm of a free press we should not be intruding on the freedom of worship that is the proper preserve of the church not the courts."
(9) In a time of growing tensions we must uphold our fundamental freedom to worship in the land of religious freedom and its why I choose to be unapologetically Muslim every day.
(10) New Labour actively championed the City, worshipping the bankers and marketing London as a financial centre where the regulation would be light touch.
(11) David Cameron is supporting a compromise through what is known as a permissive clause that allows gay marriages to be held in places of worship but does not oblige religious organisations to hold same-sex weddings.
(12) On Sunday, gun control advocates plan to hold a "National Gun Prevention Sabbath", where they say 150 houses of worship will advocate a plan to prevent gun violence, and people who have lost friends and relatives to gun violence will display their photographs.
(13) Over the summer, Hindu nationalists in India performed ceremonial rituals for Trump in the hopes that their worship would help him get elected, so he can “ put an end to Islamic terrorism ”.
(14) But like many South Africans, he balances indigenous ancestor worship with the Christian God‚ or at least gives that impression publicly.
(15) In his book School Worship: An Obituary (1975), he argued against the practice of compulsory worship in inclusive schools.
(16) But one way of looking at the whole armour of Christian practices – prayer, worship, and endless discussion of these things – is that their function is to suggest that it doesn’t have to be a delusion, that the world around them may be wrong.
(17) There is an inability to break with the slavish, neoliberal worship of that abstract totem, the national economy.
(18) His new organisation, described in one account as being "characterised by the ultra-left posturing and Mao worship", was called the Workers' Institute of Marxism-Leninism-Mao Zedong Thought.
(19) Here workmen brought from distant Rajasthan are preparing spectacular marble panels inlaid with semi-precious stone for a new place of worship, or gurdwara .
(20) But this was still very much hero worship, northern-style: the 100 or so Werder Bremen fans stood in orderly rows in the Bremen airport arrivals hall in early September, strictly behind the barrier, of course, and many of them carried smiles that were equal parts genuine, childlike excitement and self-deprecating mocking of their own genuine, childlike excitement, a way to cope with the sense of wonderment: are we really here?