📖 Определения и значения для слова silence
📒 a complete lack of noise or sound
- Their footsteps echoed in the silence.
- A scream broke the silence of the night.
- I need absolute silence when I'm working.
📒 a situation when nobody is speaking
- an embarrassed/awkward/uncomfortable silence
- a moment’s stunned silence
- I got used to his long silences.
📒 a situation in which somebody refuses to talk about something or to answer questions
- She broke her public silence in a TV interview.
- silence (on something) The company's silence on the subject has been taken as an admission of guilt.
- the right to silence (= the legal right not to say anything when you are arrested)
📒 a situation in which people do not communicate with each other by letter or phone
- The phone call came after months of silence.
- Lewis finally broke the long silence between them.
- The soldier had broken radio silence to contact his aircraft.
📒 a situation when people do not say anything, but feel embarrassed or uncomfortable
📒 an occasion when nobody speaks, although people are aware that there are feelings or thoughts to express
- There was a pregnant pause before she replied.
📒 it is often best not to say anything