Silent

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Silent \Si"lent\, n.
     That which is silent; a time of silence. [R.] "The silent of
     the night." --Shak.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Silent \Si"lent\, a. [L. silens, -entis, p. pr. of silere to be
     silent; akin to Goth. ana-silan.]
     1. Free from sound or noise; absolutely still; perfectly
        quiet.
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              How silent is this town!              --Shak.
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     2. Not speaking; indisposed to talk; speechless; mute;
        taciturn; not loquacious; not talkative.
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              Ulysses, adds he, was the most eloquent and most
              silent of men.                        --Broome.
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              This new-created world, whereof in hell
              Fame is not silent.                   --Milton.
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     3. Keeping at rest; inactive; calm; undisturbed; as, the wind
        is silent. --Parnell. Sir W. Raleigh.
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     4. (Pron.) Not pronounced; having no sound; quiescent; as, e
        is silent in "fable."
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     5. Having no effect; not operating; inefficient. [R.]
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              Cause . . . silent, virtueless, and dead. --Sir W.
                                                    Raleigh.
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     {Silent partner}. See {Dormant partner}, under {Dormant}.
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     Syn: Mute; taciturn; dumb; speechless; quiet; still. See
          {Mute}, and {Taciturn}.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  silent
       adj 1: marked by absence of sound; "a silent house"; "soundless
              footsteps on the grass"; "the night was still" [syn: {soundless},
               {still}]
       2: failing to speak or communicate etc when expected to; "the
          witness remained silent" [syn: {mum}]
       3: indicated by necessary connotation though not expressed
          directly; "gave silent consent"; "a tacit agreement"; "the
          understood provisos of a custody agreement" [syn: {implied},
           {tacit}, {understood}]
       4: not made to sound; "the silent `h' at the beginning of
          `honor'"; "in French certain letters are often unsounded"
          [syn: {unsounded}]
       5: having a frequency below or above the range of human
          audibility; "a silent dog whistle"
       6: unable to speak because of hereditary deafness [syn: {dumb},
           {mute}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  91 Moby Thesaurus words for "silent":
     aphonic, brief, brusque, calm, checked, close, close-lipped,
     close-tongued, closemouthed, concise, curbed, curt, dumb, echoless,
     economical of words, hush as death, hushed, implicit, implied,
     inactive, inarticulate, inaudible, incoherent, indisposed to talk,
     inhibited, laconic, mousy, mum, mute, muted, noiseless, pacific,
     passive, peaceful, placid, quiescent, quiet, reserved, restrained,
     reticent, secretive, serene, short, sleeping, snug, soundless,
     sparing of words, speechless, still, still as death, stilly,
     subaudible, tacit, taciturn, terse, tight-lipped, tongue-tied,
     tranquil, unagitated, unarticulated, uncommunicative, undeclared,
     understood, undisturbed, unexpressed, unhearable, unloquacious,
     unmentioned, unproclaimed, unpronounced, unpublished, unrecorded,
     unruffled, unsaid, unsociable, unsounded, unspoken, unstated,
     unsung, untalkative, untalked-of, untold, untroubled, unuttered,
     unvocalized, unvoiced, unwritten, voiceless, whist, word-bound,
     wordless