to silence

to silence teriminin İngilizce İngilizce sözlükte anlamı: dumb; clamor; To make something silent
Can you silence the crowd, so we can start the show?.; Form of meditative worship practiced by the Society of Friends (Quakers); meeting for worship
During silence a message came to me that there was that of God in every person.; {v} to make silent, to still; To put to rest; to quiet; the absence of sound; "he needed silence in order to sleep"; "the street was quiet"; keep from expression, for example by threats or pressure; "All dissenters were silenced when the dictator assumed power; The lack of any sound; The silence of a place is the extreme quietness there. She breathed deeply, savouring the silence; Absence of mention; oblivion; The action of refraining from speaking; The cessation of rage, agitation, or tumilt; calmness; quiest; as, the elements were reduced to silence; The state of being silent; entire absence of sound or noise; absolute stillness; Form of meditative worship practiced by the Society of Friends (Quakers). "Meeting for worship."; as a means of acceptance - does not work An offeror cannot say "if I don’t hear from you, I assume that you will accept " You can only do this if there is a prior agreement to conduct business in this way An example of this is the book club where you sign a contract agreeing to these terms; What happens when everyone has suddenly run out of things to say and are waiting for someone else to do bring up a new topic Say, sometimes chatting IS like real life!; A ship's silence determines how easy it is to locate with a scan Ships that are small and inactive are more silent than large ones that are engaged in various activities See Mathematics of Silence; The period of time designated by each College Panhellenic when there is no communication between potential members and college sorority members; Be silent; used elliptically for let there be silence, or keep silence; To silence someone or something means to stop them speaking or making a noise. A ringing phone silenced her; be quiet; Webster's defines it as the absence of sound However, at the Kotel, the Western Wall one minute before sunrise one hears a pot-pourri of different voices of men and women in prayer -- Israeli, American, Chassidic, Lithuanian, Sefardic Then, at the exact moment of sunrise there is total silence, as all Jews begin their own silent prayer of devotion This is not the silence of being devoid of something, but rather a powerful uplifting silence that symbolizes the unity of the Jewish people in their service of the Almighty; {ü} quiet!, shh!; the absence of paralinguistic and verbal cues; cause to be quiet or not talk; "Please silence the children in the church!"; a refusal to speak when expected; "his silence about my contribution was surprising"; DÃ®n; Secrecy; as, these things were transacted in silence; If someone silences you, they stop you expressing opinions that they do not agree with. Like other tyrants, he tried to silence anyone who spoke out against him; {f} make silent, make still, hush; quiet, put to rest; suppress; stop enemy gunfire by staging a more powerful attack; If there is silence, nobody is speaking. They stood in silence He never lets those long silences develop during dinner Then he bellowed `Silence!'; Forbearance from, or absence of, speech; taciturnity; muteness; the trait of keeping things secret; To suppress criticism etc; Someone's silence about something is their failure or refusal to speak to other people about it. The district court ruled that Popper's silence in court today should be entered as a plea of not guilty. If someone breaks their silence about something, they talk about something that they have not talked about before or for a long time. Gary decided to break his silence about his son's suffering in the hope of helping other families; Something that died when Musak stopped using John Cage's 4' 33" Internal combustion engines and Walkmen do not help either Neither do disc jockeys who do not leave gaps between records, venues that play recorded music in intermissions, and audiences that applaud at the slightest excuse; To restrain from the exercise of any function, privilege of instruction, or the like, especially from the act of preaching; as, to silence a minister of the gospel; To compel to silence; to cause to be still; to still; to hush; To cause to cease firing, as by a vigorous cannonade; as, to silence the batteries of an enemy; keep from expression, for example by threats or pressure; "All dissenters were silenced when the dictator assumed power"; the absence of sound; "he needed silence in order to sleep"; "the street was quiet" the state of being silent (as when no one is speaking); "there was a shocked silence"; "he gestured for silence" keep from expression, for example by threats or pressure; "All dissenters were silenced when the dictator assumed power; {i} quiet, absence of sound, stillness; state of remaining quiet and still; reticence, uncommunicativeness; the state of being silent (as when no one is speaking); "there was a shocked silence"; "he gestured for silence"