silent
adjective
- making no utterance, not speaking or making noise
noun
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Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈsaɪ̯lənt/ / [ˈsaɪ̯lənt] ~ [ˈsaɪ̯ln̩t] / /ˈsaːlənt/
adj
Etymology: 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”).
- Free from sound or noise; absolutely still; perfectly quiet.
“How silent is this town!”
“What was formerly performed by fleets and armies, by invasions, sieges, and battles, has been of late accomplished by more silent methods.”
- Not speaking; indisposed to talk; speechless; mute; taciturn; not loquacious; not talkative.
“Ulysses, adds he, was the most eloquent and most silent of men.”
“This new-created world, whereof in hell / Fame is not silent.”
- Keeping at rest; inactive; calm; undisturbed.
“The winds were silent, all the waves asleep, / And heaven was trac'd upon the flattering deep”
- Not pronounced; having no sound; quiescent.
“The e is silent in fable.”
“Silent letters can make some words difficult to spell.”
- Having no effect; not operating; inefficient.
“Cause […] silent, virtueless, and dead.”
- With the sound turned off; usually on silent or in silent mode.
“My phone was on silent.”
- Without audio capability.
“The Magnavox Odyssey was a silent console.”
- Hidden, unseen.
“a silent voter; a silent partner”
- Of an edit or change to a text, not explicitly acknowledged.
“silent revisions; a silent emendation”
“[T]he use of both acknowledged and unacknowledged (silent) translations of non-English sources makes it difficult for users to determine if a certain term genuinely appeared in an English-language text.”
- Not implying significant modifications which would affect a peptide sequence.
- Undiagnosed or undetected because of an absence of symptoms.
- Of distilled spirit: having no flavour or odour.
noun
Etymology: 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”).
- That which is silent; a time of silence.
“Deep night, dark night, the silent of the night.”
- 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.”