Calm vs Silent - What's the difference?
calm | silent |
(of a person) Peaceful, quiet, especially free from anger and anxiety.
(of a place or situation) Free of noise and disturbance.
(of water) with little waves on the surface.
Without wind or storm.
(in a person) The state of being calm; peacefulness; absence of worry, anger, fear or other strong negative emotion.
(in a place or situation) The state of being calm; absence of noise and disturbance.
A period of time without wind.
* Bible, Mark iv. 39
To make calm.
* Dryden
To become calm.
Free from sound or noise; absolutely still; perfectly quiet.
* 1604 , , Othello , act 5, scene 1:
* 1825 , , Arthur Murphy, The Works of Samuel Johnson , Talboys and Wheeler, page 52:
* 1906 , William Dean Howells and Sidney Dillon Ripley, Certain Delightful English Towns: With Glimpses of the Pleasant Country Between , Harper & Brothers, page 152:
Not speaking; indisposed to talk; speechless; mute; taciturn; not loquacious; not talkative.
* Broome
* Milton
Keeping at rest; inactive; calm; undisturbed.
(pronunciation) Not pronounced; having no sound; quiescent.
Having no effect; not operating; inefficient.
* Sir Walter Raleigh
(technology) Without audio capability.
Hidden, unseen.
Not implying significant modifications which would affect a peptide sequence.
Undiagnosed or undetected because of an absence of symptoms.
(uncountable) That which is ; a time of silence.
:* The silent of the night. Shakespeare
A silent movie
* {{quote-news, year=2007, date=August 12, author=Woody Allen, title=The Man Who Asked Hard Questions, work=New York Times
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As adjectives the difference between calm and silent
is that calm is peaceful, quiet, especially free from anger and anxiety while silent is free from sound or noise; absolutely still; perfectly quiet.As nouns the difference between calm and silent
is that calm is the state of being calm; peacefulness; absence of worry, anger, fear or other strong negative emotion while silent is that which is silent; a time of silence.As a verb calm
is to make calm.calm
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Adjective
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* See alsoAntonyms
* (free from anger and anxiety) stressed, nervous, anxious * (free of noise and disturbance) disturbed * (without wind or storm) windy, stormyDerived terms
* calm as a millpond * ice-calmNoun
(en noun)- The wind ceased, and there was a great calm .
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* See alsoDerived terms
* ice-calmVerb
(en verb)- to calm a crying baby
- to calm the passions
- to calm the tempest raised by Aeolus
Synonyms
* calm down, cool off, ease, pacify, quieten, soothe, subdueAnagrams
* ----silent
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Alternative forms
* scilentAdjective
(en-adj)- 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.
- The voice of the auctioneer is slow and low ; after a pause, which seems no silenter than the rest of the transaction, he ceases to repeat the bids, and his fish, in the measure of a bushel or so, have gone for a matter of three shillings.
- Ulysses, adds he, was the most eloquent and most silent of men.
- This new-created world, whereof in hell / Fame is not silent .
- The wind is silent .
- (Parnell)
- (Sir Walter Raleigh)
- The ''e'' is silent in ''fable''.
- Cause silent , virtueless, and dead.
- The Magnavox Odyssey was a silent console.
- a silent''' voter; a '''silent partner
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* See also * dumb, mute, quiet, speechless, still, taciturnDerived terms
* silent alarm * silent auction * silent barter * silent butler * silent disco * silent film * silent key * silent number * silent partner * silent majority * Silent Sam * silent service * silent treatment * silent voteNoun
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