still
Part of speech: adj
noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: arts
biology
botany
broadcasting
cinematography
film
hobbies
lifestyle
media
natural-sciences
photography
television
Etymology: From Middle English stille (“motionless, stationary”), from Old English stille (“still, quiet”), from Proto-West Germanic *stillī, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)telH- (“to be silent; to be still”). Cognate with Scots stil (“still”), Saterland Frisian stil (“motionless, calm, quiet”), West Frisian stil (“quiet, still”), Dutch stil (“quiet, silent, still”), Low German still (“quiet, silent, still”), German still (“still, quiet, tranquil, silent”), Swedish stilla (“quiet, silent, peaceful”), Icelandic stilltur (“set, quiet, calm, still”). Related to stall.
(noun: Falkland Islander): Military slang, short for still a Benny, since the military had been instructed not to refer to the islanders by the derogatory term Benny (which see).
Inflected forms:
form: stiller
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more still
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: stillest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most still
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: stil
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: stille
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: styll
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: stylle
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: stills
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: stil
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: stille
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: styll
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: stylle
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: stills
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: stilling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: stilled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: stilled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Not moving; calm.
pos: adj
examples: Sit there and stay still!
Still waters run deep.
gloss: Not effervescing; not sparkling.
pos: adj
examples: still water; still wines
gloss: Uttering no sound; silent.
pos: adj
examples: The sea that roared at thy command, / At thy command was still.
gloss: Having the same stated quality continuously from a past time
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: To follow the still President’s marching orders, all that Secretary Ronnie Puno has to do is to follow the road map laid out by Justice Azcuna in his “separate” opinion.
gloss: Comparatively quiet or silent; soft; gentle; low.
pos: adj
examples: […] a still small voice.
gloss: Constant; continual.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: By still practice learn to know thy meaning.
[…] A lifelong tract of time reveal’d;
⁠The fruitful hours of still increase;
⁠Days order’d in a wealthy peace,
And those five years its richest field.
gloss: Dormant.
pos: adj
tags: dated
examples: a still spore
gloss: A period of calm or silence.
pos: noun
examples: the still of the night
Between the roar of the thunder and the blatter of the rain there were intervals of an astounding still, of an ominous suspense […]
As the ground warms, to the first rays of light, / A birdsong shatters the still.
gloss: A photograph, as opposed to movie footage.
pos: noun
gloss: A photograph, as opposed to movie footage.
pos: noun
examples: One of his best stories was "Barney Oldfield's Race for a Life" (1914), of which there survives only an amusing still, showing poor Mabel Normand chained to the rails by two toughs, the moustached villain threatening her with a sledge-hammer, and an awful sense of that inexorably approaching express!
gloss: A resident of the Falkland Islands.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: To calm down, to quiet.
pos: verb
examples: to still the raging sea
They likewise believed that he, having a full Sway and Command over the Water, had Power to still and compose it, as well as to move and disturb it […]
Is this the scourge of France? / Is this the Talbot, so much fear'd abroad / That with his name the mothers still their babes?
[…] withholding myself from toil that would, at least, have stilled an unquiet impulse in me.
Near the pond was the ducking-stool where many a village scold had her tongue temporarily stilled.
Related words: styll
Derived words: bestill
be still my beating heart
be still my heart
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standstilll
still alarm
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stillbirth
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stillish
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stillsome
stillstand
stillth
Stillwater
still water runs deep
still waters
still waters run deep
Stillwell
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stilly
stock-still
stone-still
unstill
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Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: кадър
roman: kadǎr
lang: Finnish
word: pysäytyskuva
lang: Finnish
word: stilli
lang: French
word: photogramme
lang: German
word: Photographie
lang: German
word: Standfoto
lang: Hungarian
word: állókép
lang: Hungarian
word: állófénykép
lang: Hungarian
word: képkocka
lang: Icelandic
word: kyrrmynd
lang: Italian
word: fermo immagine
lang: Italian
word: istantanea
lang: Italian
word: fotogramma
lang: Japanese
word: スチール
roman: suchīru
lang: Japanese
word: スチル
roman: suchiru
lang: Japanese
word: 静止画
roman: sēshi-ga
lang: Polish
word: fotos
lang: Spanish
word: instantánea
lang: Swedish
word: stillbild
lang: Finnish
word: jyrkänne
lang: German
word: Anstieg
lang: German
word: Steigung