Mum vs Still - What's the difference?
mum | still | Synonyms |
(UK, Australia, Canada, New England, informal) Mother.
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* 2004 , Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Patty Hansen, Irene Dunlap, Chicken Soup for the Preteen Soul 2 ,
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* 2011 , Chyna, FAM: Rolling in a London Girl Gang ,
(dated) A term of respect for an older woman.
* 1840 , , Volume 1, 1851,
* 1885 , , 2011,
(colloquial) silent.
* Shakespeare
(colloquial) secret.
stop speaking! hush!
* Shakespeare
to act in a pantomime or dumb show
(obsolete) silence
A sort of strong beer, originally made in Brunswick, Germany.
Not moving; calm.
Not effervescing; not sparkling.
Uttering no sound; silent.
* Addison
(not comparable) Having the same stated quality continuously from a past time
* {{quote-news, 2007, January 3, Gerry Geronimo, Unwanted weed starts to sprout from a wayward ponencia, Manila Standard
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Comparatively quiet or silent; soft; gentle; low.
* Bible, 1 Kings xix. 12
(obsolete) Constant; continual.
* Shakespeare
(aspect) Up to a time, as in the preceding time.
* Francis Bacon
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(degree) To an even greater degree.
* Shakespeare
(conjunctive) Nevertheless.
* Moore
(archaic, poetic) Always; invariably; constantly; continuously.
* 1609 (William Shakespeare), Troilus and Cressida 5.2.201-202:
* Addison
* Boyle
(extensive) .
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(photography) A non-moving photograph. (The term is generally used only when it is necessary to distinguish from movies.)
(slang) A resident of the Falkland Islands.
A steep hill or ascent.
a device for distilling liquids.
(catering) a large water boiler used to make tea and coffee.
(catering) the area in a restaurant used to make tea and coffee, separate from the main kitchen.
A building where liquors are distilled; a distillery.
to calm down, to quiet
* Woodward
* Shakespeare
* Hawthorne
(obsolete) To trickle, drip.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.ii:
To cause to fall by drops.
To expel spirit from by heat, or to evaporate and condense in a refrigeratory; to distill.
Mum is a synonym of still.
As a proper noun mum
is one's mother.As a noun still is
.mum
English
Alternative forms
* mam * mom, Mom (US) * MumEtymology 1
Alternative form of mam, or an abbreviation of mummy. Compare mom, mama.Noun
(en noun)page 278,
- 'Ooh Mum', Auntie don?t allow smokin’ - Pat?s eyes were round with awe as ' Mum struck a match.
page 336,
- Her mum says that she is deaf and only partially sighted, so I need to go and stand in front of her, so she can see the gift.
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- “Mum'! '''Mum'''!” he shouted out. The laughter stopped. Two bright, sparkling yellow eyes peeped from the hollow. Atop her head were the fluffy ear tufts that his '''mum''' was so proud of because they were fuller and lovelier than those of most Great Horned Owls. It was indeed his ' mum !
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- He?s looking at my mum , at her swollen eyes, busted nose and bloodied lips. She?s mashed up something chronic, and the man who did this to her is my dad.
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- “Wy, mum',” said Mr. Weller, “I don?t think you?ll see a many sich, and that?s the truth. But if my son Samivel vould give me my vay, '''mum , and dis-pense with his—''might I wenter to say the vurd?”
- “What word Mr Weller?” said the housekeeper, blushing slightly.
- “Petticuts, mum ,” returned that gentleman, laying his had upon the garments of his grandson. “If my son Samivel vould only dis-pense vith these here, you?d see sich a alteration in his appearance, as the imagination can?t depicter!”
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- Then she took off the hank and looked me straight in the face, and very pleasant, and says:
- “Come, now, what?s your real name?
- “Wh -- what, mum ?”
- “What?s your real name? Is it Bill, or Tom, or Bob? -- Or what is it?”
Usage notes
Mum is only capitalized when used as a proper noun: * I don't think Mum will like you. * I don't think my mum will like you. *In New England, the word may still be spelt "mom", but it will have the pronunciation of "mum."Synonyms
* See alsoEtymology 2
Abbreviation of chrysanthemum.Etymology 3
From (etyl) mum or .Adjective
(-)- The citizens are mum , and speak not a word.
Derived terms
* keep mum * mum's the wordInterjection
- Mum , then, and no more.
Verb
(mumm)Noun
(-)- (Hudibras)
Etymology 4
(etyl) Mummere, named after Christian Mumme, who first brewed it in 1492.Noun
(-)- (Addison)
- The clamorous crowd is hushed with mugs of mum . — Alexander Pope.
Anagrams
* * English palindromes ----still
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) . Related to (l).Alternative forms
* (l) * (l), (l), (l) (obsolete)Adjective
(en-adj)- Still waters run deep.
- still''' water; '''still wines
- The sea that roared at thy command, / At thy command was still .
citation
- a still small voice
- By still practice learn to know thy meaning.
Synonyms
* (not moving) fixed, stationary, unmoving * See alsoDerived terms
* stillnessAdverb
(-)- It hath been anciently reported, and is still received.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Edward Churchill still attended to his work in a hopeless mechanical manner like a sleep-walker who walks safely on a well-known round. But his Roman collar galled him, his cossack stifled him, his biretta was as uncomfortable as a merry-andrew's cap and bells.}}
- Hepaticology, outside the temperate parts of the Northern Hemisphere, still lies deep in the shadow cast by that ultimate "closet taxonomist," Franz Stephani—a ghost whose shadow falls over us all.
citation, passage=An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine.}}
- ("still" and "taller" can easily swap places here)
- The guilt being great, the fear doth still exceed.
- As sunshine, broken in the rill, / Though turned astray, is sunshine still .
- Lechery, lechery, still wars and lechery; nothing else holds fashion.
- The desire of fame betrays an ambitious man into indecencies that lessen his reputation; he is still afraid lest any of his actions should be thrown away in private.
- Chemists would be rich if they could still do in great quantities what they have sometimes done in little.
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Ode to Prime Numbers, volume=101, issue=4, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Some poems, echoing the purpose of early poetic treatises on scientific principles, attempt to elucidate the mathematical concepts that underlie prime numbers. Others play with primes’ cultural associations. Still others derive their structure from mathematical patterns involving primes.}}
Synonyms
* (up to a time) yet * (to an even greater degree) yet, even * (nevertheless) nonetheless, though, yetNoun
(en noun)- the still of the night
Etymology 2
Via (etyl), ultimately from (etyl) stillaNoun
(en noun) (wikipedia still)See also
* pot stillEtymology 3
(etyl) stillanVerb
(en verb)- to still the raging sea
- He having a full sway over the water, had power to still and compose it, as well as to move and disturb it.
- With his name the mothers still their babies.
- toil that would, at least, have stilled an unquiet impulse in me
Etymology 4
Aphetic form of distil, or from (etyl) (lena) stillare.Verb
(en verb)- any drop of slombring rest / Did chaunce to still into her wearie spright [...].
- (Tusser)
