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Still   /stɪl/   Listen
Still

adverb
1.
With reference to action or condition; without change, interruption, or cessation.  "Will you still love me when we're old and grey?"
2.
Despite anything to the contrary (usually following a concession).  Synonyms: all the same, even so, however, nevertheless, nonetheless, notwithstanding, withal, yet.  "While we disliked each other, nevertheless we agreed" , "He was a stern yet fair master" , "Granted that it is dangerous, all the same I still want to go"
3.
To a greater degree or extent; used with comparisons.  Synonyms: even, yet.  "An even (or still) more interesting problem" , "Still another problem must be solved" , "A yet sadder tale"
4.
Without moving or making a sound.  Synonym: stock-still.  "Time stood still" , "They waited stock-still outside the door" , "He couldn't hold still any longer"
adjective
(compar. stiller; superl. stillest)
1.
Not in physical motion.  Synonyms: inactive, motionless, static.
2.
Marked by absence of sound.  Synonyms: silent, soundless.  "Soundless footsteps on the grass" , "The night was still"
3.
(of a body of water) free from disturbance by heavy waves.  Synonyms: placid, quiet, smooth, tranquil, unruffled.  "The quiet waters of a lagoon" , "A lake of tranquil blue water reflecting a tranquil blue sky" , "A smooth channel crossing" , "Scarcely a ripple on the still water" , "Unruffled water"
4.
Used of pictures; of a single or static photograph not presented so as to create the illusion of motion; or representing objects not capable of motion.  "Cezanne's still life of apples"
5.
Not sparkling.  Synonym: noneffervescent.  "Still mineral water"
6.
Free from noticeable current.  "Still waters run deep"
noun
1.
A static photograph (especially one taken from a movie and used for advertising purposes).
2.
(poetic) tranquil silence.  Synonyms: hush, stillness.
3.
An apparatus used for the distillation of liquids; consists of a vessel in which a substance is vaporized by heat and a condenser where the vapor is condensed.
4.
A plant and works where alcoholic drinks are made by distillation.  Synonym: distillery.
verb
(past & past part. stilled; pres. part. stilling)
1.
Make calm or still.  Synonyms: calm, calm down, lull, quiet, quieten, tranquilize, tranquillise, tranquillize.
2.
Cause to be quiet or not talk.  Synonyms: hush, hush up, quieten, shut up, silence.
3.
Lessen the intensity of or calm.  Synonyms: allay, ease, relieve.  "Still the fears"
4.
Make motionless.



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"Still" Quotes from Famous Books



... written, and more volumes might still be written, on this subject. But I must content myself here with saying that I believe there is no province which illustrates so thoroughly all the distressing features of these manifold and complicated problems of colonization, of permanent settlements, with ...
— Russian Rambles • Isabel F. Hapgood
... that bright band of very noble young spirits, of my brother's love and admiration for them, of their affection for him, of our pleasant intercourse in those far-off early days,—in spite of the faithful, life-long regard which still subsists between myself and the few survivors of that goodly company, my heart sinks with a heavy sense of loss, and the world from which so much light has departed seems dark ...
— Records of a Girlhood • Frances Anne Kemble
... fact that she had taken it simply and without any protest. On the whole, he was glad. To have called her by the formal name by which he had known her might have struck some chord of pain. He did not even know that she bore it still. Dallas might be dead or worse than dead to her. A score of possibilities suggested themselves to his mind. But he felt he must try, if possible, to make her ...
— A Beautiful Alien • Julia Magruder
... surprise. Hereupon Caesar's eyelids began to quiver, and in a threatening tone he reminded his bloody-handed tool of those whom he had ordered him to take alive. Still Zminis was silent, and Caesar furiously shrieked his demand as to whether by his blundering Heron's daughter had escaped; whether he could not produce the gem-cutter and his son. The blood-stained butcher then perceived that Caesar's murderous sword might be turned against him also. Still, he was ...
— Uarda • Georg Ebers
... had grown attached to him, but she drooped and pined away after he lost his false teeth in crossing a river, and tried to replace them with orange-peel, a trick he had learnt at school. Sir HENRY's fight with She-who-will-never-Obey is still remembered. He will carry the marks of her nails on his cheeks to his grave. I myself am tired of wandering. "Home, Sweet Home," as the Bab Ballads have it, is the ...
— Punch, or The London Charivari, Vol. 100., Jan. 17, 1891 • Various


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