Silent vs Inward - What's the difference?

silent | inward |

As an acronym silent

is .

As an adjective inward is

situated on the inside; that is within, inner; belonging to the inside.

As an adverb inward is

towards the inside.

As a noun inward is

(obsolete|chiefly|in the plural) that which is inward or within; the inner parts or organs of the body; the viscera.

silent

English

Alternative forms

* scilent

Adjective

(en-adj)

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

* 1604 , , Othello , act 5, scene 1:

How silent is this town!

* 1825 , , Arthur Murphy, The Works of Samuel Johnson , Talboys and Wheeler, page 52:

What was formerly performed by fleets and armies, by invasions, sieges, and battles, has been of late accomplished by more silent methods.

* 1906 , William Dean Howells and Sidney Dillon Ripley, Certain Delightful English Towns: With Glimpses of the Pleasant Country Between , Harper & Brothers, page 152:

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.

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

* Broome

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

* Milton

This new-created world, whereof in hell / Fame is not silent .

Keeping at rest; inactive; calm; undisturbed.

The wind is silent .

(Parnell)

(Sir Walter Raleigh)

(pronunciation) Not pronounced; having no sound; quiescent.

The ''e'' is silent in ''fable''.

Having no effect; not operating; inefficient.

* Sir Walter Raleigh

Cause silent , virtueless, and dead.

(technology) Without audio capability.

The Magnavox Odyssey was a silent console.

Hidden, unseen.

a silent''' voter; a '''silent partner

Not implying significant modifications which would affect a peptide sequence.

Undiagnosed or undetected because of an absence of symptoms.

Synonyms

* See also * dumb, mute, quiet, speechless, still, taciturn

Derived 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 vote

Noun

(en noun)

(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 citation

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inward

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

Situated on the inside; that is within, inner; belonging to the inside.

(obsolete) Intimate, closely acquainted; familiar.

*, II.3:

*:There is nothing can be added unto the daintinesse of Fulvius'' wives death, who was so inward with ''Augustus .

* Bible, Job xix. 19

All my inward friends abhorred me.

* Sir Philip Sidney

He had had occasion, by one very inward with him, to know in part the discourse of his life.

Derived terms

* inwards * inwardly * inwardness

Adverb

(en adverb)

Towards the inside.

So much the rather, thou Celestial Light, Shine inward . — Milton.

Noun

(en noun)

(obsolete, chiefly, in the plural) That which is inward or within; the inner parts or organs of the body; the viscera.

(Jeremy Taylor)

* Milton

Then sacrificing, laid the inwards and their fat.

(obsolete, chiefly, in the plural) The mental faculties.

(obsolete) A familiar friend or acquaintance.

* Shakespeare

I was an inward of his.

(Webster 1913)