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📖 Определения и значения для слова silent

📒 where there is little or no sound; making little or no sound

  • At last the traffic fell silent.
  • The streets were silent and deserted.
  • The new bus is virtually silent.

📒 not speaking

  • to remain/stay/keep silent
  • As the curtain rose, the audience fell silent.
  • He gave me the silent treatment (= did not speak to me because he was angry).

📒 not expressed with words or sound

  • a silent prayer/protest
  • They nodded in silent agreement.

📒 written but not pronounced

  • The ‘b’ in ‘lamb’ is silent.

📒 with pictures but no sound

  • a silent film/movie
  • stars of the silent screen

📒 not talking very much

  • He's the strong silent type.

📒 not giving information about something; refusing to speak about something

  • The report is strangely silent on this issue.
  • the right to remain silent (= the legal right not to say anything when you are arrested)
  • They had kept remarkably silent about their intentions.
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