Alternativa stavningar

Uttal

  • UttalUS
  • Okänd accent:
    • IPA: /ˈsaɪlənt/
Översättning
Adjektiv
1.sessiz

Definitioner

Adjektiv

  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. (pronunciation) Not pronounced; having no sound; quiescent.
  5. Having no effect; not operating; inefficient.
  6. (technology) 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.

Substantiv

  1. (uncountable) That which is silent; a time of silence.
  2. A silent movie

Exempel

  • How silent is this town!
  • What was formerly performed by fleets and armies, by invasions, sieges, and battles, has been of late accomplished by more silent methods.
  • 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.
  • Ulysses, adds he, was the most eloquent and most silent of men.
  • This new-created world, whereof in hell / Fame is not silent.
  • The wind is silent.
  • The e is silent in fable.
  • Cause [...] silent, virtueless, and dead.
  • The Magnavox Odyssey was a silent console.
  • a silent voter; a silent partner
  • The silent of the night. Shakespeare
  • All kinds, silents and talkies.

Böjningsformer

Pluralsilents
Komparativsilenter
Komparativmore silent
Superlativsilentest
Superlativmost silent