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Still is a related term of mute.

As a noun still

is .

As a verb mute is

As an adjective mute is

mutated.

still

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) . Related to (l).

Alternative forms

* (l) * (l), (l), (l) (obsolete)

Adjective

(en-adj)

Not moving; calm.

Still waters run deep.

Not effervescing; not sparkling.

still''' water; '''still wines

Uttering no sound; silent.

* Addison

The sea that roared at thy command, / At thy command was still .

(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 citation

, passage=To follow the still President’s marching orders, all that Secretary Ronnie Puno has to do is to follow the road map laid out by Justice Azcuna in his “separate” opinion. }}

Comparatively quiet or silent; soft; gentle; low.

* Bible, 1 Kings xix. 12

a still small voice

(obsolete) Constant; continual.

* Shakespeare

By still practice learn to know thy meaning.

Synonyms

* (not moving) fixed, stationary, unmoving * See also

Derived terms

* stillness

Adverb

(-)

(aspect) Up to a time, as in the preceding time.

* Francis Bacon

It hath been anciently reported, and is still received.

* , chapter=15

, title= 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.

* {{quote-magazine, title=A better waterworks, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838

, page=5 (Technology Quarterly), magazine=(The Economist) 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.}}

(degree) To an even greater degree.

("still" and "taller" can easily swap places here)

* Shakespeare

The guilt being great, the fear doth still exceed.

(conjunctive) Nevertheless.

* Moore

As sunshine, broken in the rill, / Though turned astray, is sunshine still .

(archaic, poetic) Always; invariably; constantly; continuously.

* 1609 (William Shakespeare), Troilus and Cressida 5.2.201-202:

Lechery, lechery, still wars and lechery; nothing else holds fashion.

* Addison

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.

* Boyle

Chemists would be rich if they could still do in great quantities what they have sometimes done in little.

(extensive) .

* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author= Sarah Glaz

, title= 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, yet

Noun

(en noun)

A period of calm or silence.

the still of the night

(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.

Etymology 2

Via (etyl), ultimately from (etyl) stilla

Noun

(en noun) (wikipedia still)

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.

Etymology 3

(etyl) stillan

Verb

(en verb)

to calm down, to quiet

to still the raging sea

* Woodward

He having a full sway over the water, had power to still and compose it, as well as to move and disturb it.

* Shakespeare

With his name the mothers still their babies.

* Hawthorne

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)

(obsolete) To trickle, drip.

* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.ii:

any drop of slombring rest / Did chaunce to still into her wearie spright [...].

To cause to fall by drops.

To expel spirit from by heat, or to evaporate and condense in a refrigeratory; to distill.

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mute

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (m), (m), (etyl) (m), from .

Adjective

(er)

Not having the power of speech; dumb.

* Ovid: Metamorphoses , translated by (John Dryden)

Thus, while the mute creation downward bend / Their sight, and to their earthly mother tend, / Man looks aloft; and with erected eyes / Beholds his own hereditary skies. / From such rude principles our form began; / And earth was metamorphos'd into Man.

Silent; not making a sound.

* Milton

All the heavenly choir stood mute , / And silence was in heaven.

* 1956 , Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins (?, translators), Lion Feuchtwanger (German author), Raquel: The Jewess of Toledo'' (translation of '' ), Messner, page 178:

“ The heathens have broken into Thy Temple, and Thou art silent! Esau mocks Thy Children, and Thou remainest mute'! Show thyself, arise, and let Thy Voice resound, Thou '''mutest''' among all the ' mute !”

Not uttered; unpronounced; silent; also, produced by complete closure of the mouth organs which interrupt the passage of breath; said of certain letters.

Not giving a ringing sound when struck; said of a metal.

Noun

(en noun)

(obsolete, theatre) An actor who does not speak; a mime performer.

* 1668 OF Dramatick Poesie, AN ESSAY. By JOHN DRYDEN Esq; ((John Dryden))

As for the poor honest Maid, whom all the Story is built upon, and who ought to be one of the principal Actors in the Play, she is commonly a Mute in it:

A person who does not have the power of speech.

A hired mourner at a funeral; an undertaker's assistant.

The little box was eventually carried in one hand by the leading mute , while his colleague, with a finger placed on the lid, to prevent it from swaying, walked to one side and a little to the rear.

* 1978 , (Lawrence Durrell), Livia'', Faber & Faber 1992 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 481:

Then followed a long silence during which the mute turned to them and said, ‘Of course you'll be wanting an urn, sir?’

(music) An object for dulling the sound of an instrument, especially a brass instrument, or damper for pianoforte; a sordine.

Verb

(mut)

To silence, to make quiet.

To turn off the sound of.

Please mute the music while I make a call.

Derived terms

* muter

Etymology 2

From (etyl) (m), probably a shortened form of (m), ultimately from (etyl).

Verb

(mut)

(Ben Jonson)

Noun

(en noun)

The faeces of a hawk or falcon.

(Hudibras)

Etymology 3

(etyl) (lena) .

Verb

(mut)

To cast off; to moult.

* Beaumont and Fletcher

Have I muted all my feathers?

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