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underground | silent |

As a proper noun underground

is (uk|rail transport) the london underground.

As an acronym silent is

.

underground

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (label) Below the ground; below the surface of the Earth.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2014-06-14, volume=411, issue=8891, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= It's a gas , passage=One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination.}}
  • (hidden)Hidden, furtive, secretive.
  • Of music, art, etc, outside the mainstream.

    • Synonyms

    * (below the ground) subterranean * (hidden) clandestine, hidden, hush-hush, secret * (outside the mainstream) avant-garde, unconventional

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • Below the ground.
    • The tunnel goes underground at this point.
  • Secretly.

    • Synonyms

    * (below the ground) below ground * (secretly) clandestinely, in secret, on the quiet

    Noun

    (en noun) (wikipedia underground)
  • (chiefly, British) An underground railway.
  • A movement or organisation of people who resist political convention.
  • A movement or organisation of people who resist artistic convention.

    • Synonyms

    * (underground railway) metro, (the underground railway of Paris), subway (US), Tube (British - the underground railway of London) * (movement or organisation of people who resist political convention) resistance * (movement or organisation of people who resist artistic convention) avant-garde, counter-culture

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To route electricity distribution cables underground
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1962 , year_published=1998 , publisher=Island Press , editor=Carolyn Merchant , author=David Pesonen , title=Green Versus Gold: Sources in California's Environmental History , chapter=Battles Over Energy citation , isbn=9781559635806 , page=325 , passage=One is to underground where no other alternative will work, and this method should be used universally in urban regions as it now is in “downtown” sections.}}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=2004 , publisher=Transportation Research Board , editor=Transportation Research Board Committee on Utilities , author=Don L. Ivey and C. Paul Scott , title=Utilities and Roadside Safety , chapter=Solutions , volume_plain=State of the Art Report 9 citation , isbn=9780309094511 , page=9 , passage=Also, undergrounding' may not eliminate the potential for crashes with other roadside objects, such as trees, walls, buildings, and so forth. [...] When looking at the fesibility of ' undergrounding utilities, the complete roadside area and nearby adjacent properties should be evaluated for potential roadside obstructions or hazards.}}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=2006 , year_published= , publisher=CRC Press , author=Janes Northcote-Green, Robert Wilson , title=Control and Automation of Electrical Power Distribution Systems , chapter=Design, Construction and Operation of Distribution Systems, MV Networks citation , isbn=9780824726317 , page=110 , passage=The utility now wants the network to be undergrounded in the urban areas, which would mean substations with 33 kV distribution swtichgear.}}

    See also

    * underground railway * go underground ----

    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
    • , passage=All kinds, silents and talkies. }}

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