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Silent

//ˈsaɪlənt// adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Free from sound or noise; absolutely still; perfectly quiet.

    "How silent is this town!"

  2. 2
    Not speaking; indisposed to talk; speechless; mute; taciturn; not loquacious; not talkative.

    "Ulysses, adds he, was the most eloquent and most silent of men."

  3. 3
    Keeping at rest; inactive; calm; undisturbed.

    "The winds were silent, all the waves asleep, / And heaven was trac'd upon the flattering deep"

  4. 4
    Not pronounced; having no sound; quiescent.

    "The e is silent in fable."

  5. 5
    Having no effect; not operating; inefficient.

    "Cause […] silent, virtueless, and dead."

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  1. 6
    With the sound turned off; usually on silent or in silent mode.

    "My phone was on silent."

  2. 7
    Without audio capability.

    "The Magnavox Odyssey was a silent console."

  3. 8
    Hidden, unseen.

    "a silent voter; a silent partner"

  4. 9
    Of an edit or change to a text, not explicitly acknowledged.

    "silent revisions; a silent emendation"

  5. 10
    Not implying significant modifications which would affect a peptide sequence.
  6. 11
    Undiagnosed or undetected because of an absence of symptoms.
  7. 12
    Of distilled spirit: having no flavour or odour.
Adjective
  1. 1
    unable to speak because of hereditary deafness wordnet
  2. 2
    expressed without speech wordnet
  3. 3
    having a frequency below or above the range of human audibility wordnet
  4. 4
    not made to sound wordnet
  5. 5
    failing to speak or communicate etc. when expected to wordnet
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  1. 6
    implied by or inferred from actions or statements wordnet
  2. 7
    marked by absence of sound wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    That which is silent; a time of silence. uncountable

    "Deep night, dark night, the silent of the night."

  2. 2
    Acronym of syndrome of irreversible lithium-effectuated neurotoxicity. abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, uncountable
  3. 3
    A member of the Silent Generation. in-plural

    "From Ali (technically a Silent who was born in 1942), to Tommie Smith's medal-stand protest, to Joe Namath's Super Bowl prediction to the hair-raising Oakland A's and the raucous Bronx Zoo Yankees of the 1970s, to the outbursts of Connors and McEnroe on the tennis court, to King's tireless push for women's equality off it, this was a generation unafraid of offering opinions."

  4. 4
    A silent movie

    "More than 40 films will be shown spanning the past seventy-five years, including early silents and talkies, contemporary productions, foreign and American films, documentaries, underground works and television shows."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Latin silēns (“silent”), present participle of sileō (“be silent”), from Proto-Indo-European *seyl- (“still, windless, quiet, slow”). Related to Gothic 𐌰𐌽𐌰𐍃𐌹𐌻𐌰𐌽 (anasilan, “to cease, grow still, be silent”), Old English sālnes (“silence”).

Etymology 2

From Latin silēns (“silent”), present participle of sileō (“be silent”), from Proto-Indo-European *seyl- (“still, windless, quiet, slow”). Related to Gothic 𐌰𐌽𐌰𐍃𐌹𐌻𐌰𐌽 (anasilan, “to cease, grow still, be silent”), Old English sālnes (“silence”).

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