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Calm
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- 1 Peaceful, quiet, especially free from anger and anxiety.
- 2 Free of noise and disturbance.
"Calm is the morn without a sound, Calm as to suit a calmer grief, And only thro’ the faded leaf The chestnut pattering to the ground: […]"
- 3 with few or no waves on the surface; not rippled.
- 4 Without wind or storm.
- 5 Good; alright; cool; OK. Multicultural-London-English, slang
"Hi, welcome to Puma. If you need any help, my name's Kelly. That's calm, man[…]Thirty pounds is the limit, I think you'll pay no more, I'm sorry. Aight, fuck it! What, can I do chip and pin. Calm, I'ma put my pin in like boom!"
- 1 (of weather) free from storm or wind wordnet
- 2 not agitated; without losing self-possession wordnet
- 1 The state of being calm; peacefulness; absence of worry, anger, fear or other strong negative emotion. countable, uncountable
"Calm on the seas, and silver sleep, And waves that sway themselves in rest, And dead calm in that noble breast Which heaves but with the heaving deep."
- 2 Initialism of café au lait macule. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
- 3 steadiness of mind under stress wordnet
- 4 The state of being calm; absence of noise and disturbance. countable, uncountable
- 5 wind moving at less than 1 knot; 0 on the Beaufort scale wordnet
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- 6 The absence of wind; a period of time without wind. countable, uncountable
"The wind ceased, and there was a great calm."
- 1 To make calm. transitive
"to calm a crying baby"
- 2 cause to be calm or quiet as by administering a sedative to wordnet
- 3 To become calm. intransitive
- 4 make steady wordnet
- 5 become quiet or calm, especially after a state of agitation wordnet
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- 6 make calm or still wordnet
Etymology
From Middle English calm, calme, from Middle French calme, probably from Old Italian calma, of uncertain origin. Calma may derive from Late Latin cauma (“heat of the midday sun”), from Ancient Greek καῦμα (kaûma, “heat, especially of the sun”), from καίω (kaíō, “I burn”), or possibly from Latin caleō. Compare also Lombardic *chalm, *chalma (“frozenness”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *kalmaz (“frozenness, cold”). Displaced native Middle English smilte (“quiet, still, gentle”) from Old English smylte (“quiet, tranquil, calm, serene”).
From Middle English calm, calme, from Middle French calme, probably from Old Italian calma, of uncertain origin. Calma may derive from Late Latin cauma (“heat of the midday sun”), from Ancient Greek καῦμα (kaûma, “heat, especially of the sun”), from καίω (kaíō, “I burn”), or possibly from Latin caleō. Compare also Lombardic *chalm, *chalma (“frozenness”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *kalmaz (“frozenness, cold”). Displaced native Middle English smilte (“quiet, still, gentle”) from Old English smylte (“quiet, tranquil, calm, serene”).
From Middle English calm, calme, from Middle French calme, probably from Old Italian calma, of uncertain origin. Calma may derive from Late Latin cauma (“heat of the midday sun”), from Ancient Greek καῦμα (kaûma, “heat, especially of the sun”), from καίω (kaíō, “I burn”), or possibly from Latin caleō. Compare also Lombardic *chalm, *chalma (“frozenness”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *kalmaz (“frozenness, cold”). Displaced native Middle English smilte (“quiet, still, gentle”) from Old English smylte (“quiet, tranquil, calm, serene”).
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