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📖 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

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