Crossword clues for silent
silent
- Like some alarms
- Word 1 of a Christmas classic
- Type of film
- Like the first "d" in "Wednesday"
- Like many old movies
- Like early movies
- Like Arbuckle's films
- Like a very old movie
- "____ Night"
- "___ Spring"
- described thus
- Word for Cal Coolidge
- What Tori Amos was "All These Years"
- Type of night
- Run ____ Run Deep
- R.Carson's "___ Spring"
- Quiet — 13 (anag)
- Omitting of mention, in contract-ese
- Omitting mention, as in a contract
- Mike and the Mechanics "___ Running"
- Like Tom Mix flicks
- Like three of the letters of "aisle"
- Like the third letter of "talking"
- Like the start of Psalms
- Like the letters omitted from the starred answers (collected here)
- Like the last letter in a column?
- Like the "h" in honor
- Like some initial P's
- Like one "k" in "knuckle"
- Like movies soundtracked by ragtimey piano
- Like most Chaplin films
- Like Fatty Arbuckle's films
- Like a respectful librarygoer
- In the background, perhaps
- How Mike & the Mechanics ran?
- Film with subtitles
- Enlist (anag) — mum
- Cold kind of treatment
- Closed up
- Bryan Adams "I was caught in the crossfire of a ___ scream"
- "___ majority"
- Most unheard of!
- Mum
- Speechless
- Like some auctions
- Like a D. W. Griffith film
- Like the "p" in psychology
- Like 33-Down's films
- Clammy?
- Still
- Muted to the max
- Not providing any hints, say
- Like the Best Picture of 2011
- Uncommunicative
- ___ movies (8-, 20-, 39- and 57-Across, in a way)
- Kind of treatment
- Kind of majority
- Anagram for enlist
- "___ Spring," R. Carson book
- Unexpressed
- Like some butlers
- Word with "Night" or "Spring"
- Inarticulate
- Kind of film
- Anagram of tinsel or enlist
- Carson's "___ Spring"
- Taciturn
- With 45 Down, milieu for quiet ladies
- Mum let sin get out of control
- Quiet - 13
- Christmas Eve was such a quiet night
- Went on a horse, say, in northeast Germany
- Saying nothing is kept up over period of religious observance
- Like early 10s, one's rising fast
- Is perversely advanced still
- Saying nothing
- Not talking
- Like some partners
- Kind of partner
- Old movie
- Word in a Christmas carol title
- Without sound
- Making no sounds
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Silent \Si"lent\, a. [L. silens, -entis, p. pr. of silere to be silent; akin to Goth. ana-silan.]
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Free from sound or noise; absolutely still; perfectly quiet.
How silent is this town!
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Not speaking; indisposed to talk; speechless; mute; taciturn; not loquacious; not talkative.
Ulysses, adds he, was the most eloquent and most silent of men.
--Broome.This new-created world, whereof in hell Fame is not silent.
--Milton. Keeping at rest; inactive; calm; undisturbed; as, the wind is silent.
--Parnell. Sir W. Raleigh.(Pron.) Not pronounced; having no sound; quiescent; as, e is silent in ``fable.''
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Having no effect; not operating; inefficient. [R.]
Cause . . . silent, virtueless, and dead.
--Sir W. Raleigh.Silent partner. See Dormant partner, under Dormant.
Syn: Mute; taciturn; dumb; speechless; quiet; still. See Mute, and Taciturn.
Silent \Si"lent\, n.
That which is silent; a time of silence. [R.] ``The silent of
the night.''
--Shak.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1500, "without speech, silent, not speaking," from Latin silentem (nominative silens) "still, calm, quiet," present participle of silere "be quiet or still" (see silence (n.)). Meaning "free from noise or sound" is from 1580s.\n
\nOf letters, c.1600; of films, 1914. In the looser sense "of few words," from 1840. Phrase strong, silent (type) is attested from 1905. Silent majority in the political sense of "mass of people whose moderate views are not publicly expressed and thus overlooked" is first attested 1955 in a British context and was used by John F. Kennedy but is most associated in U.S. with the rhetoric of the Nixon administration (1969-74).\n\nIt is time for America's silent majority to stand up for its rights, and let us remember the American majority includes every minority. America's silent majority is bewildered by irrational protest.
[Spiro T. Agnew, May 9, 1969]
\nIn Victorian use, the phrase meant "the dead" (1874; compare Roman use of the noun plural of "silent" to mean "the dead"). Silence is golden (1831) is Carlyle's translation ["Sartor Resartus"] of part of the "Swiss Inscription" Sprechen ist silbern, Schweigen ist golden. In one 14c. text Latin "one who is silent" is translated by a beere stille.Wiktionary
a. 1 free from sound or noise; absolutely still; perfectly quiet. 2 Not speaking; indisposed to talk; speechless; mute; taciturn; not loquacious; not talkative. 3 Keeping at rest; inactive; calm; undisturbed. 4 (context pronunciation English) Not pronounced; having no sound; quiescent. 5 Having no effect; not operate; inefficient. 6 (context technology English) Without audio capability. 7 hidden, unseen. 8 Not implying significant modifications which would affect a peptide sequence. 9 Undiagnosed or undetected because of an absence of symptoms. n. 1 (context uncountable English) That which is #Adjective; a time of silence. 2 A silent movie
WordNet
adj. marked by absence of sound; "a silent house"; "soundless footsteps on the grass"; "the night was still" [syn: soundless, still]
failing to speak or communicate etc when expected to; "the witness remained silent" [syn: mum]
indicated by necessary connotation though not expressed directly; "gave silent consent"; "a tacit agreement"; "the understood provisos of a custody agreement" [syn: implied, tacit, understood]
not made to sound; "the silent `h' at the beginning of `honor'"; "in French certain letters are often unsounded" [syn: unsounded]
having a frequency below or above the range of human audibility; "a silent dog whistle"
unable to speak because of hereditary deafness [syn: dumb, mute]
Wikipedia
Silent were a Brazilian Arena Rock Band from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Silent may mean any of the following:
In music:
- Silent (rock group), a Brazilian rock group
- The Silents, an Australian psychedelic rock band
- "Silent" (Gerald Walker), the first single from the rapper
Other uses:
- Silent film, a film with no sound
- Dark (broadcasting) or silent, an off-air radio or TV station
- Brandon Silent (born 1973), South African former footballer
- Charles Silent (1842-1918), German-born American jurist
- Buffalo Silents, a 1920s exhibition basketball team whose members were deaf and/or mute
- Silent Pool, a lake in Surrey, United Kingdom
- Air Energy AE-1 Silent, a German self-launching ultralight sailplane
- Silent Family, a German aircraft manufacturer
- Silent letter, a letter in a word which is not pronounced
"Silent" is the first single from Gerald Walker's I Remember When This All Meant Something....
Usage examples of "silent".
She often returned home pale and silent, having reached the uttermost depths of human abomination, and never daring to say all.
These were the silent, empty remains of the accelerator ring that had once circled the planet, that had created the antimatter that fueled its economy, that had berthed its ships, warehoused its goods, and supported the lives of eighty million people.
The immortal productions of Virgil, Cicero, and Livy, which were accessible to the Christian Barbarians, maintained a silent intercourse between the reign of Augustus and the times of Clovis and Charlemagne.
Most new students find that silent prayer is the best method for achieving this state.
David and Deborah his manner remained always the same, jestingly ironic, scornfully loquacious, lovingly friendly of a sudden, then for a day, two days, a week utterly silent, while his eyes roved, his ears were acock listening for a step.
Notwithstanding these precautions, and his own example, the succession of consuls finally ceased in the thirteenth year of Justinian, whose despotic temper might be gratified by the silent extinction of a title which admonished the Romans of their ancient freedom.
Selim Aga, who till now had been smoking his narghile, silent and unmoved, got up.
The robots started off, the regular thudding of their footsteps silent in the airlessness, for the nonmetallic fabric of the insosuits did not transmit sound.
He motioned furtively to the Abenaki, in the almost universal sign language common to all nations of polyglot Alata, that he was to keep silent.
Should the need for action arise, be assured that I will look to the two of you-was He paused, catching sight of Alec sitting stiff and silent in his chair.
Clucking and grunting all the while, they repeated the performance over and over while Alec and Beka watched in silent delight.
Grinning in silent triumph, Alec lifted out a leather folder and heard the muffled crackle of parchment.
As silent partner, Alker had supplied the required cash, only to find that he owed Malvin more than he could raise, due to trick clauses in the agreements that they signed.
But we, the councillors, the members of the Amapakati, still stood silent.
Libby Ames, do you really love that buffoon of a doctor, he thought as he lay in restful peace in the silent room.