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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



... that it is the persistence of these ovaries that causes the menstruation of which we sometimes hear as taking place after ovariotomy. Sippel records an instance of third ovary; Mangiagalli has found a supernumerary ovary in the body of a still-born child, situated to the inner side of the normal organ. Winckel discovered a large supernumerary ovary connected to the uterus by its own ovarian ligament. Klebs found two ovaries on one side, both consisting of true ...
— Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine • George M. Gould
... long struggle of unionism in America and I know the law that has governed all its ups and downs. Wherever it was still a movement it has thrived; wherever it became a mob it fell. The one Big Union was a mob. No movement based on passion finally wins; no movement based on reason finally fails. Why then say life is a riddle and ...
— The Iron Puddler • James J. Davis
... Wallace,—I have been very much struck by your whole article (returned by this post), especially as to rate of denudation, for the still glaciated surfaces have of late most perplexed me. Also especially on the lesser mutations of climate during the last 60,000 years; for I quite think with you no cause so powerful in inducing specific changes, through the consequent migrations. ...
— Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1 (of 2) • James Marchant
... from one another. And, in the second place, before all the many required re-adjustments could be made, the variety would die out from defective constitution. Even were there no such difficulty, we should still have to entertain a strange group of propositions, which would stand as follows:—1. Change in one part entails, by reaction on the organism, changes, in other parts, the functions of which are necessarily changed. 2. Such changes worked in the individual, affect, in some way, ...
— Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I • Herbert Spencer
... Lord Edward the 6. by the grace of God, king of England, Fraunce, and Ireland, defender of the faith, and of the Church of England and Ireland, in earth supreame head. [Footnote: "Some of these Instructions now indeed appear rather childish, but others might still be used as rules for any well-ordered exploratory expedition."— Nordenskiold, Voyage of the Vega, vol. I, ...
— The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, • Richard Hakluyt


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