(adv.) Motionless; at rest; quiet; as, to stand still; to lie or sit still.
(adv.) Uttering no sound; silent; as, the audience is still; the animals are still.
(adv.) Not disturbed by noise or agitation; quiet; calm; as, a still evening; a still atmosphere.
(adv.) Comparatively quiet or silent; soft; gentle; low.
(adv.) Constant; continual.
(adv.) Not effervescing; not sparkling; as, still wines.
(n.) Freedom from noise; calm; silence; as, the still of midnight.
(n.) A steep hill or ascent.
(a.) To this time; until and during the time now present; now no less than before; yet.
(a.) In the future as now and before.
(a.) In continuation by successive or repeated acts; always; ever; constantly; uniformly.
(a.) In an increasing or additional degree; even more; -- much used with comparatives.
(a.) Notwithstanding what has been said or done; in spite of what has occured; nevertheless; -- sometimes used as a conjunction. See Synonym of But.
(a.) After that; after what is stated.
(a.) To stop, as motion or agitation; to cause to become quiet, or comparatively quiet; to check the agitation of; as, to still the raging sea.
(a.) To stop, as noise; to silence.
(a.) To appease; to calm; to quiet, as tumult, agitation, or excitement; as, to still the passions.
(v.) A vessel, boiler, or copper used in the distillation of liquids; specifically, one used for the distillation of alcoholic liquors; a retort. The name is sometimes applied to the whole apparatus used in in vaporization and condensation.
(v.) A house where liquors are distilled; a distillery.
(v. t.) To cause to fall by drops.
(v. t.) To expel spirit from by heat, or to evaporate and condense in a refrigeratory; to distill.
Example Sentences:
(1) He still denied it and said he was giving the girl a lift.
(2) The percentage of people with less than 10 TU titers is under 5% after the age of 5 years up to 15 years; from 15 to 60 years there are no subjects with undetectable ASO titer and after this age the percentage is still under 5%.
(3) Some common eye movement deficits, and concepts such as 'the neural integrator' and the 'velocity storage mechanism', for which anatomical substrates are still sought, are introduced.
(4) The findings indicate that there is still a significant incongruence between the value structure of most family practice units and that of their institutions but that many family practice units are beginning to achieve parity of promotion and tenure with other departments in their institutions.
(5) Although Jeggo's Chinese hamster ovary cells were more responsive to mAMSA, novo still abrogated mAMSA toxicity in the mutant cells as well as in the parental Chinese hamster ovary cells 2,4-Dinitrophenol acted similarly to novo with respect to mAMSA killing, but neither compound reduced the ATP content of V79 cells.
(6) Cyanoacrylate and PDS coatings were not detectable after 6 weeks while PHBA and PLLA coatings were still observed after 48 weeks.
(7) Jonker kept sticking his nose in the corner and not really cooperating, but then came a moment of stillness.
(8) Despite of the increasing diagnostic importance of the direct determination of the parathormone which is at first available only in special institutions in these cases methodical problems play a less important part than the still not infrequent appearing misunderstanding of the adequate basic disease.
(9) However, the mechanism of the inhibitory action is still somewhat uncertain.
(10) ), nosological frontiers are still unclear and accordingly justify a comparative serological study of M.M., W.M., and B.M.G.
(11) We are pursuing legal action because there are still so many unanswered questions about the viability of Shenhua’s proposed koala plan and it seems at this point the plan does not guarantee the survival of the estimated 262 koalas currently living where Shenhua wants to put its mine,” said Ranclaud.
(12) Diagnostic work-up and management of intracranial arachnoid cysts are still controversial.
(13) The following conclusions emerge: (i) when the 3' or the 3' penultimate base of the oligonucleotide mismatched an allele, no amplification product could be detected; (ii) when the mismatches were 3 and 4 bases from the 3' end of the primer, differential amplification was still observed, but only at certain concentrations of magnesium chloride; (iii) the mismatched allele can be detected in the presence of a 40-fold excess of the matched allele; (iv) primers as short as 13 nucleotides were effective; and (v) the specificity of the amplification could be overwhelmed by greatly increasing the concentration of target DNA.
(14) Madrid now hopes that a growing clamour for future rescues of Europe's banks to be done directly, without money going via governments, may still allow it to avoid accepting loans that would add to an already fast-growing national debt.
(15) New indications are still being investigated, for example in focal tremors and spasticity.
(16) BT Sport's marketing manager, Alfredo Garicoche, is more effusive still: "We're not thinking for the next two or three years, we're thinking for the next 20 or 30 years and even longer.
(17) Its pathogenesis, still incompletely elucidated, involves the precipitation of immune complexes in the walls of the all vessels.
(18) Even if it were not the case that police use a variety of tricks to keep recorded crime figures low, this data would still represent an almost meaningless measure of the extent of crime in society, for the simple reason that a huge proportion of crimes (of almost all sorts) have always gone unreported.
(19) The data shows a dissociation between ferritin synthesis, cellular accumulation and secretion for which the mechanisms have still to be elucidated.
(20) John Lewis’s marketing, advertising and reputation are all built on their promises of good customer services, and it is a large part of what still drives people to their stores despite cheaper online outlets.
Unmoving
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Annette Ramelsberger of the Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper, who has attended every trial day so far, told German broadcaster DLF that she had been struck in particular by how unmoved Zschäpe was by the accounts given by the parents of 21-year-old Halit Yozgat, the owner of an internet cafe who was gunned down in broad daylight in Kassell on 6 April 2006.
(2) A crucial difference from Unscom is that all the Unmovic staff will be paid for directly by the UN.
(3) They were unmoved by the fact that copies of the drives were lodged round the globe.
(4) He was unmoved by the cheering in the plenary hall for the agreement, saying: "They are thinking like politicians.
(5) While Cotto seemed unmoved by the several shots that pierced his guard, he was the one who began to slow first.
(6) Brough replied: “Yes I did.” Mal Brough unmoved by calls to resign over Peter Slipper furore Read more Brough had a different response when the shadow attorney general, Mark Dreyfus , asked the same question during parliamentary question time on Wednesday: “Did you ask James Ashby to procure copies of Peter Slipper’s diary for you?” Brough told parliament: “No.” The 60 Minutes exchange is significant because extracts of AFP search warrants that have been read into the parliamentary record suggest the police are investigating whether Brough “counselled and procured” Ashby to access restricted data and disclose extracts, contrary to criminal law.
(7) At the end of the training, the group linked arms in front of the church and began chanting: “Let them stay.” Turnbull and Dutton unmoved by calls to spare 267 asylum seekers from deportation to Nauru Read more The largest crowd appeared to gather at St John’s cathedral in Brisbane, almost filling the church.
(8) The same official had failed to notice Mario Balotelli's lunge high into Alex Song's shin at the Emirates a week earlier but was convinced here despite his linesman being unmoved and Mata the only Chelsea player to celebrate.
(9) Aleppo was divided almost immediately into government- and rebel-controlled areas, along lines that have remained mostly static ever since: a stalemate unmoved by repeated and often ruthless attempts to dislodge the other side.
(10) The Southampton substitute Maya Yoshida appeared to bundle over Alberto Paloschi in the box but the referee, Jonathan Moss, was unmoved.
(11) Unmovic takes 0.8% of this fund to pay its staff and other costs.
(12) Moyes's decision to renew United's interest has so far left Evra unmoved, with the 32-year-old currently of the mind to stay at the club while monitoring the situation as it develops.
(13) It was a crystal-encrusted hand gesture to a fashion industry that remains unmoved by the label's current red carpet ranking.
(14) Untouched by a pleading letter from Vince Cable, the business secretary begging them to " make peace with the public ", the board was certainly unmoved by the Robin Hood and Action Aid anti-tax avoidance protesters outside.
(15) Practice of late in local producing houses has actually been to revive audience-demanded canonical work by employing Australians to rewrite the words, but The Australian is unmoved – singling out my own employer, Melbourne's Malthouse, as an "offender against the art of playwriting" with "ideological bias against text-based plays".
(16) Despite repeated promises to be more open, time after time the London Assembly has hit an unmovable wall when assessing TfL finances.
(17) Petition calling for Donald Trump to be banned from UK signed by 95,000 Read more Trump toured the US television studios in unrepentant form, unmoved by the gale of criticism that followed his speech aboard an aircraft carrier on Monday evening.
(18) Between 1955 and 1958 he was minister of finance, then minister of defence, holding this post from 1959 to 1966 – unmoved and unmoveable – while prime ministers succeeded each other: Antonio Segni (1959), Fernando Tambroni (1960), Fanfani (1960-62), Giovanni Leone (1963) and Aldo Moro (1963-66).
(19) Second, when questions about issues are asked in direct relation to voting intentions, the gap between the NHS and other concerns is unmoved.
(20) The blow will be softened, however, by a weekly income of £500,000, comprised of salary, image rights and associated sponsorship, and the challenge of establishing the Beckham brand in a country that has thus far been largely unmoved by the rest of the world's favourite game.