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Definition: Silent |
SilentAdjective1. Marked by absence of sound; "a silent house"; "soundless footsteps on the grass"; "the night was still". 2. Failing to speak or communicate etc when expected to; "the witness remained silent". 3. (of film) having no spoken dialogue and usually no soundtrack; "a silent movie". 4. Indicated by necessary connotation though not expressed directly; "gave silent consent"; "a tacit agreement"; "the understood provisos of a custody agreement". 5. Not made to sound; "the silent `h' at the beginning of `honor'"; "in French certain letters are often unsounded". 6. Having a frequency below or above the range of human audibility; "a silent dog whistle". 7. Unable to speak because of hereditary deafness. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "silent" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Silent (The). William I., Prince of Orange (1533-1584). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Before the advent of the sound films (called the 'talkies'), there was only silent film. The years before sound came to the movies are known as the "silent era" among film scholars and historians. The art of motion pictures grew into full maturity before the silents were replaced by "talking pictures," and a number of film buffs believe the quality of the cinema actually decreased for a few years, before the new medium of sound was adapted to the movies.Since the films could not take advantage of synchronized sound for dialogue, titles were edited in to clarify the on-screen situation to the cinema audience or add critical dialog.
Showings of silent films usually were not actually silent: they were commonly accompanied by live music. Early in the development of the motion picture industry, it was learned that music was an essential part of any movie, as it gave the audience emotional cues for the action taking place on the screen. Small town and neighborhood movie theaters usually had a pianist accompany the film; large city theaters would have entire orchestras.
The medium of silent film required a greater emphasis on body language and facial expression, so that the audience could better understand what an actor was feeling and portraying on screen. Modern-day audiences who are not used to this form of acting may be uncomfortable watching films from the silent era, because the actors in these films may seem to be overacting to an outrageous degree. Because of this, silent comedies tend to be more popular in the modern era than drama, because overacting is a natural form of comedy.
Literally thousands of silent films were made in the years leading through the inroduction of sound, but a considerable number of those films (historians estimate between 80 and 90 percent) have been lost forever. Movies of the first half of the 20th century were filmed on an unstable, highly flamable nitrate film stock, which required careful preservation to keep from decomposing over time. Most of these films were not preserved; over the years, their prints simply crumbled into dust. Many of them were recycled, and a sizable number were destroyed in studio fires. As a result, silent film preservation has been a high priority among movie historians.
Some notable silent films
With director and year of release:
- La Presa di Roma, Filoteo Alberini, 1905
- Ben-Hur, Sidney Olcott, 1907
- From the Manger To the Cross, Sidney Olcott, 1912
- Cabiria, Giovanne Pastrone, 1914
- The Perils of Pauline, Louis J. Gasnier & Donald MacKenzie 1914
- The Birth of a Nation, D. W. Griffith, 1915
- Intolerance, D.W. Griffith, 1916
- Cleopatra, J. Gordon Edwards, 1917
- Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, Marshall Neilan, 1917
- The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Robert Wiene, 1920
- Nosferatu, F.W. Murnau, 1922
- The Thief of Bagdad, Douglas Fairbanks, 1923
- Sherlock, Jr, Buster Keaton, 1924
- Battleship Potemkin, Sergei Eisenstein, 1925
- The Gold Rush, Charlie Chaplin, 1925
- Safety Last, Harold Lloyd, 1925
- Greed, Erich von Stroheim, 1925
- The Phantom of the Opera, Lon Chaney, 1925
- The Big Parade, King Vidor, 1925
- The Lodger, Alfred Hitchcock, 1926
- The General, Buster Keaton, 1927
- Sunrise, F.W. Murnau, 1927
- Metropolis, Fritz Lang, 1927
- The Passion of Joan of Arc, Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1928
- Pandora's Box, GW Pabst, 1928
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Silent film."
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The name Silent Generation was coined in the November 5, 1951 cover story of Time to refer to the generation coming of age at the time. The phrase gained further currency after William Manchester's comment that the members of this generation were "withdrawn, cautious, unimaginative, indifferent, unadventurous and silent." The name was used by Strauss and Howe in their book Generations as their designation for that generation in the United States of America born from 1925 to 1942. The generation is also known as the Postwar Generation and the Seekers, when it is not neglected altogether and placed by marketers in the same category as the G.I., or "Greatest", Generation. In England they were named the Air Raid Generation as children growing up amidst the crossfire of World War II.According to Strauss and Howe's interpretation, the typical grandparents were of the Missionary Generation; their parents were of the Lost Generation and G.I. Generation. Their children are Baby boomers and Generation X; their typical grandchildren are of the Generation Y.
The Silent are the generational stuffings of a sandwich between the get-it-done G.I.s and the self-absorbed Boom. Well into their rising adulthood, they looked to the G.I.s for role models and pursued what then looked to be a lifetime of refining, humanizing, and ameliorating a G.I.-built world. Come the mid-1960s, the Silent fell under the trance of their free-spirited next-juniors, the Boomers. As songwriters, graduate students, and young attorneys, they mentored the Consciousness Revolution, founding several of the organizations of political dissent the Boom would later radicalize.
The Silent grew up as the suffocated children of war and depression. They came of age too late to be war heroes (they fought in Korea to a tie) and just too early to be youthful free spirits. Instead, this early-marrying Lonely Crowd became the risk-averse technicians, sensitive rock-n-rollers ("Why must I be a teenager in love?") and civil rights advocates of a post-Crisis era in which conformity seemed a sure ticket to success. Midlife was an anxious "passage" for a generation torn between stolid elders and passionate juniors. Their surge to power coincided with fragmenting families, cultural diversity, institutional complexity, and prolific litigation. In 2003, they are entering elderhood with unprecedented affluence, a hip style, and a reputation for indecision.
David Foot in Boom Bust and Echo takes a very different perspective on this group arguing that those born in the 30s and early 40s are the most successful generation. He argues that because so few people were born during the depression and the war that employment opportunities were abundent and this group quickly rose to the top and became the management and superiors of the great mass of baby boomers that came after them. Using economic indicators he finds that 1938 was the best year to born in North America, in terms of economic success. The impact of the generation was also great culturally, as the musicians and thinkers such as John Lennon, Bob Dylan, and Allen Ginsberg who shaped the fashions of the younger boomers formed the engine behind the 1960s and 1970s.
Silent celebrities include the following:
Prominent foreign-born peers include Fidel Castro, Helmut Kohl, Mikhail Gorbachev, Vaclav Havel, and John Lennon (died 1980).
- 1925 William F. Buckley, Jr
- 1925 Gore Vidal
- 1926 Marilyn Monroe (died 1962)
- 1927 Andy Warhol (died 1987)
- 1928 T. Boone Pickens, Jr
- 1929 Martin Luther King, Jr (died 1968)
- 1930 James A. Baker III
- 1930 Sandra Day O'Connor
- 1930 Clint Eastwood
- 1931 James Dean (died 1955)
- 1932 Andrew Young
- 1933 Stanley Milgram (died 1984)
- 1934 Carl Sagan (died 1996)
- 1935 Elvis Presley (died 1977)
- 1935 Geraldine Ferraro
- 1935 Woody Allen
- 1935 Phil Donahue
- 1936 Jim Henson (died 1990)
- 1936 Abbie Hoffman (died 1989)
- 1937 Jack Nicholson
- 1939 Marvin Gaye
- 1940 Ted Koppel (immigrant)
- 1940 Pat Schroeder
- 1941 Paul Simon
- 1941 Martha Stewart
- 1942 Joseph Lieberman
- 1942 Jimi Hendrix (died 1970)
- 1942 Barbra Streisand
Cultural endowments of the Silent Generation include:
The Silent generation has produced America's late twentieth-century facilitators and technocrats. They produced four decades of Presidential aides -- Pierre Salinger (Kennedy), Bill Moyers (L. B. Johnson), John Ehrlichman (Nixon), Richard Cheney (Ford and G. W. Bush), Stuart Eizenstat (Carter), James A. Baker III (Reagan and G.H.W. Bush), and John H. Sununu (G.H.W. Bush). And three First Ladies. But no Presidents.
- The Other America (Michael Harrington)
- Portnoy's Complaint (Philip Roth)
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Ken Kesey, later a movie)
- Unsafe at Any Speed (Ralph Nader)
- Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (TV series, Carl Sagan)
- Heartburn (Nora Ephron)
- Ms (magazine, Gloria Steinem)
- Playboy (magazine, Hugh Hefner)
- Future Shock (Alvin Toffler)
- Megatrends (John Naisbitt)
- Fatherhood (Bill Cosby)
- Sesame Street (children's television, Joan Ganz Cooney)
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Silent Generation."
Synonyms: SilentSynonyms: dumb (adj), implied (adj), mum (adj), mute (adj), soundless (adj), still (adj), tacit (adj), understood (adj), unsounded (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: talking (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Aphony | Silence; render mute, render silent; muzzle, muffle, suppress, smother, gag, strike dumb, dumfounder; drown the voice, put to silence, stop one's mouth, cut one short. |
Adjective: aphonous, dumb, mute; deafmute, deaf and dumb; mum; tongue-tied; breathless, tongueless, voiceless, speechless, wordless; mute as a fish, mute as a stockfish, mute as a mackerel; silent; (taciturn); muzzled; inarticulate, inaudible. | |
Quiescence | Adjective: quiescent, still; motionless, moveless; fixed; stationary; immotile; at rest at a stand, at a standstill, at anchor; stock, still; standing still; Verb: sedentary, untraveled, stay-at-home; becalmed, stagnant, quiet; unmoved, undisturbed, unruffled; calm, restful; cataleptic; immovable; (stable); sleeping; (inactive); silent; still as a statue, still as a post, still as a mouse, still as death; vegetative, vegetating. |
Taciturnity | Verb: be silent; adj.; keep silence, keep mum; hold one's tongue, hold one's peace, hold one's jaw; not speak.; say nothing, keep one's counsel; seal the lips, close the lips, button the lips, zipper the lips, put a padlock on the lips, put a padlock on the mouth; put a bridle on one's tongue; bite one's tongue, keep one's tongue between one's teeth; make no sign, not let a word escape one; keep a secret; not have a word to say; hush up, hush, lay the finger on the lips, place the finger on the lips; render mute. |
Adjective: silent, mute, mum; silent as a post, silent as a stone, silent as the grave; (still); dumb; unconversable. | |
Warfare | Phrase: the battle rages; a la guerre comme a la guerre; bis peccare in bello non licet; jus gladii; "my voice is still for war"; "'tis well that war is so terrible, otherwise we might grow fond of it"; "my sentence is for open war"; "pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war"; "the cannons have their bowels full of wrath"; "the cannons..spit forth their iron indignation"; "the fire-eyed maid of smoky war"; silent leges inter arma; si vis pacem para bellum. |
World | Phrase: die Weltgeschichte ist das Weltergesicht; "earth is but the frozen echo of the silent voice of God"; "green calm below, blue quietness above"; "hanging in a golden chain this pendant World"; "nothing in nature is unbeautiful"; "silently as a dream the fabric rose"; "some touch of nature's genial glow"; "this majestical roof fretted with golden fire"; "through knowledge we behold the World's creation". |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | Dark and silent and complete (Fight Club; writing credit: Jim Uhls) They're silent so we won't have to worry about the language problem but I think people would really go for that action stuff (Shanghai Knights; writing credit: Alfred Gough; Miles Millar) He relies on who he is, rather than what he is. I have always thought that one should move through life accumulating silent victories (Gideon; writing credit: Brad Mirman) This crowd has gone deadly silent, a Cinderella story outta nowhere (Caddyshack; writing credit: Brian Doyle-Murray; Harold Ramis) And those that confess to the Angka are punished, and no one dare ask where they go. Here, only the silent survive (The Killing Fields; writing credit: Bruce Robinson) | |
Lyrics | I was caught in the crossfire of a silent scream (Heat Of The Night; performing artist: Bryan Adams) Where do silent hearts go (Where Does My Heart Beat Now; performing artist: Celine Dion) So sleep, silent angel, go to sleep (The Air That I Breathe; performing artist: Hollies) Silent tears full of pride ("Flashdance"; performing artist: Irene Cara) The sneaky silent men the punk domestic violence men (Doo Wop (That Thing); performing artist: Lauryn Hill) | |
Clever | Silent scream (references; author: unknown) The word listen contains the same letters as the word silent. (references; author: unknown) When someone is having a bad day, be silent, sit close by, and nuzzle them gently. (references; author: unknown) New York: You Have The Right To Remain Silent, You Have The Right To An Attorney … (references; author: unknown) It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and prove it. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Silent Warnings (2003) The Silent Drum (1973) Bloody Night Silent Night (1973) Silent Thunder (1973) The Silent Years (1971) | |
Song Titles | Silent Hills (performing artist: Lanterna) Secret of the Silent Hills (Lassie Theme) (performing artist: Lassie) Silent Running (On Dangerous Ground) (performing artist: Mike + The Mechanics) Silent Lucidity (performing artist: Queensryche) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Cave at Silent CityBurley Field OfficeUSRDUpper Snake River District. Credit: Terry Maley. |  | Silent City fractions in GraniteBurley Field OfficeUSRDUpper Snake River District. Credit: Terry Maley. |
 | [Texas Instrument Silent 700]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | [MEDLINE's Silent 700 by Texas Instruments]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | "Marine Corps Leathernecks with the 1st Marine Division in Korea are subject to outdoor advertising of a not particularly persuasive type these days. As enemy positions are overrun, signs such as the ones in this photograph, taken by Marine Corps Combat photographers, are found. It's a new kind of recruiting for the Communist Peoples Volunteer Force -- but Communist recruiting officers reports are strangely silent as to the success of the current campaign." Quoted from the original caption released with this p. Credit: NAVY; photo by Commander, Naval Forces Far East under date of 11 May 1951. Note the Marine's goggles and M-1 carbine.. |  | Behind him, wide-eyed, silent, tense, a crowd of chocolate adventurers watched the play. The tropics had got him again. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | A silent protest. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | And the Secretary kept on sitting silent. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | The silent vote. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Silent protest parade in New York [City] against the East St. Louis riots, 1917. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Silent ocean blue light 3" by Nils N Kristensen Commentary: "From roskilde fjord in denmark." | "Silent road" by Markus . Commentary: "The road of are so wonderful quietly in the morning." |
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| Author | Quotation |
Alexander Pope | Be silent always when you doubt your sense. |
Lord Alfred Tennyson | Her eyes are homes of silent prayers. |
Miguel de Cervantes | The eyes those silent tongues of Love. |
Oliver Goldsmith | In all the silent manliness of grief. |
Ovid | 'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause. |
Publilius Syrus | A fair exterior is a silent recommendation. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | Real action is in silent moments. |
Virgil | Deep in her breast lives the silent wound. |
Walter Savage Landor | What is reading, but silent conversation. |
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John Locke | 1690 | If a controversy arise betwixt a prince and some of the people, in a matter where the law is silent, or doubtful, and the thing be of great consequence, I should think the proper umpire, in such a case, should be the body of the people: for in cases where the prince hath a trust reposed in him, and is dispensed from the common ordinary rules of the law; there, if any men find themselves aggrieved, and think the prince acts contrary to, or beyond that trust, who so proper to judge as the body of the people, (who, at first, lodged that trust in him) how far they meant it should extend? But if the prince, or whoever they be in the administration, decline that way of determination, the appeal then lies no where but to heaven; force between either persons, who have no known superior on earth, or which permits no appeal to a judge on earth, being properly a state of war, wherein the appeal lies only to heaven; and in that state the injured party must judge for himself, when he will think fit to make use of that appeal, and put himself upon it. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Miranda v. Arizona | 1966 | Where the individual answers some questions during in-custody interrogation, he has not waived his privilege, and may invoke his right to remain silent thereafter. (reference) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | She is very timid and silent. |
Through the Looking-Glass | Carroll, Lewis | For a minute or two Alice stood silent, watching him. |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | As the life and good fame of yonder man were in your hands, there seemed no choice to me, save to be silent, in accordance with your behest |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | As to the fourth, he was silent, but his huge shoulders betrayed him. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | As he walked home with silent companions a thick fog seemed to compass his mind |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | The silent hours steal on, And flaky darkness breaks within the east |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Joad was silent, looking into the distance ahead, along the road, along the white road that waved gently, like a ground swell |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | My Muse may be excused if she is silent henceforth |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | However long the silent periods last, plague may suddenly reappear. (references) | |
Such groups of infected animals serve as silent, long-term reservoirs of infection. (references) | ||
Many gallstones, especially silent stones, are discovered by accident during tests for other problems. (references) | ||
Business | The Olympic Village will be constructed of new environmentally friendly building materials, and serviced by a large, silent fleet of non-polluting air-conditioned buses. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Micronesia | It is silent on foreign travel, emigration, and repatriation, but in practice none of these are restricted. (references) |
Canada | In the province of Saskatchewan, during the 2000-01 academic year the Saskatoon school board implemented a new policy called "School Opening Exercises: Connections to Curricula and Celebrations," replacing its prior policy requiring children to recite (or remain silent during the recital of) the Lord's Prayer. (references) | |
Economic History | Haiti | The penal code is silent on the issue of bribes to foreign officials. (references) |
Human Rights | Brazil | In more than half the calls received, the caller hung up or remained silent. (references) |
Grenada | The accused has the right to remain silent and to seek the advice of legal counsel. (references) | |
Indonesia | Defendants do not have the right to remain silent and may be compelled to testify against themselves. (references) | |
Political Economy | China | Some lawyers, law professors, and jurists continued publicly to press for a transparent system of discovery, abolition of coerced confessions, a presumption of innocence, an independent judiciary, the right to remain silent, and improved administrative laws giving citizens recourse against unlawful acts by the Government. (references) |
Women | Niger | Women's groups so far have been silent on the ratification, allegedly due to fear of reprisals. (references) |
Turkmenistan | The subject is not usually discussed in society, and the majority of victims of domestic violence keep silent, partly because they are unaware of their rights, or because they are afraid of increased violence from their husbands and relatives. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Zimbabwe | As originally written, this act was silent on the right to bargain collectively. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | HEAD-:MONEY:, n. A capitation tax, or poll-tax. In ancient times there lived a king Whose tax-collectors could not wring From all his subjects gold enough To make the royal way less rough. For pleasure's highway, like the dames Whose premises adjoin it, claims Perpetual repairing. So The tax-collectors in a row Appeared before the throne to pray Their master to devise some way To swell the revenue. "So great," Said they, "are the demands of state A tithe of all that we collect Will scarcely meet them. Pray reflect: How, if one-tenth we must resign, Can we exist on t'other nine?" The monarch asked them in reply: "Has it occurred to you to try The advantage of economy?" "It has," the spokesman said: "we sold All of our gray garrotes of gold; With plated-ware we now compress The necks of those whom we assess. Plain iron forceps we employ To mitigate the miser's joy Who hoards, with greed that never tires, That which your Majesty requires." Deep lines of thought were seen to plow Their way across the royal brow. "Your state is desperate, no question; Pray favor me with a suggestion." "O King of Men," the spokesman said, "If you'll impose upon each head A tax, the augmented revenue We'll cheerfully divide with you." As flashes of the sun illume The parted storm-cloud's sullen gloom, The king smiled grimly. "I decree That it be so -- and, not to be In generosity outdone, Declare you, each and every one, Exempted from the operation Of this new law of capitation. But lest the people censure me Because they're bound and you are free, 'Twere well some clever scheme were laid By you this poll-tax to evade. I'll leave you now while you confer With my most trusted minister." The monarch from the throne-room walked And straightway in among them stalked A silent man, with brow concealed, Bare-armed -- his gleaming axe revealed! G.J. |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Karl Lagerfeld | Then I don't have to make an effort because I see my personal taste based on silent movies, German expressionism, and a little tougher, harsher thing. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | During this trial the voices of disunity among us were silent or were subdued to an occasional whine that warned us that they were still among us. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | I wonder if we could all join in a moment of silent prayer. |
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| "Silent" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Silent" is used about 3,794 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 3,794 | 2,571 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| Canada | Silent Witness Enterprises Ltd. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "silent": be as silent as a grave ♦ be as silent as death ♦ be silent ♦ be silent about ♦ be silent for a while ♦ become silent ♦ become suddenly silent ♦ fail silent ♦ fall silent ♦ go silent ♦ grow silent ♦ keep silent ♦ remain silent ♦ silent as the grave ♦ silent butler ♦ silent comedy ♦ silent device ♦ silent film ♦ silent leges inter arma ♦ silent majority ♦ silent movie ♦ silent night ♦ silent partner ♦ silent partnership ♦ silent period ♦ silent person ♦ silent pictures ♦ silent risk ♦ silent spirit ♦ silent treatment ♦ silent worship ♦ silent zone ♦ sleeping or silent partner ♦ speech silent ♦ the silent service. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "silent": silent-film, silent-footed, silent-movie, silent-screamingly, silent-wheel. | |
Ending with "silent": Annie-the-silent, lichen-silent, long-silent, near-silent, still-silent, stone-silent, wisely-silent. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
silent hill 3 | 2,651 | silent scope | 99 |
silent hill | 2,173 | silent hard drive | 91 |
silent hill 2 | 1,516 | silent witness | 88 |
jay and silent bob | 782 | silent bob | 86 |
silent hill 2 walk through | 634 | silent hunter 2 | 84 |
silent screams.com | 561 | silent hill cheat | 82 |
3 hill silent through walk | 354 | hill3 silent | 82 |
silent scream | 235 | armored core line silent | 78 |
cheat for silent hill 2 | 215 | silent auction | 77 |
silent mobius | 196 | silent film | 74 |
silent hill walk through | 180 | silent night | 71 |
jay and silent bob strike back | 179 | 2 de guia hill silent | 70 |
silent | 165 | silent knight | 69 |
silent pc | 143 | silent hill2 | 69 |
silent hunter | 140 | silent spring | 65 |
3 cheat hill silent | 129 | jay and silent bob quote | 54 |
silent movie | 113 | bob jay secret silent stash | 51 |
doll maker silent | 112 | doll silent | 51 |
silent unity | 111 | silent lucidity | 50 |
3 armored core line silent | 99 | silent running | 48 |
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| Language | Translations for "silent"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | pa zhurmë (quietly, silently), pa zë (mute, voiceless), i urtë (acquiescent, canny, compliant, docile, ductile, meek, mild, placable, prudent, quiet, sage, sapient, sapiential, Solomon, still, sweet-tempered, tame, wise), i qetë (at ease, balanced, calm, canny, collected, comfortable, comfy, composed, cool, cool-headed, dispassionate, easeful, equable, even, even-minded, halcyon, laid back, level, level headed, mild, noiseless, orderly, Pacific, passionless, peaceable, peaceful, placid, quiescent, quiet, reposeful, retired, secure, sedate, self possessed, serene, settled, smooth, sober-blooded, stationary, still, stilly, tranquil, unconcern, unconcerned, uneventful, unruffled), i heshtur (antisocial, cagey, cagy, catlike, close-mouthed, dumb, latent, mute, quiet, sleepy, taciturn, tight lipped, wordless), fjalëpakë (chary, discreet, inconvertible, laconic, reticent, taciturn). (various references) | |
Arabic | قليل الكلام (reticent, taciturn), غير ملفوظ (soundless), سكوت (hush, keeping quiet, reticence, silence, taciturnity), ساكت (mum, silenced), صامت (dumb, mum, mute, noiseless, quiet, silenced, speechless, still, surd, tacit, tight lipped, unvoiced, voiceless, whist, wordless), خامد (calm, inactive, still), الصامت, أخرس (aphony, dumb, mute, shut up, tongue tied). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | тих (airless, breathless, calm, canny, dreamy, halcyon, low, noiseless, peaceful, placid, quiet, restful, sleepy, slow, small, soft, stealthy, still, stilly, tearless, tranquil, under, uneventful), ням (dumb, implicit, inarticulate, mute, speechless, still, voiceless), неизказан (ineffable, inexplicit, inexpressible, mental, unsaid, unspeakable, unspoken, untold, unutterable, unvoiced), мълчалив (buttoned up, mum, mute, quiet, secret, secretive, taciturn, tight lipped, tongue tied, uncommunicative, unspoken), замлъкнал (quiet), безшумен (mousey, noiseless, quiet, soundless, still), безмълвен (dumb, mute, noiseless, quiet, speechless, still, wordless). (various references) | |
Chinese | 貊 (name of a wild tribe), 貉 (badger-like animal, name of a wild tribe), 默 (write from memory), 無聲 (noiseless, noiselessly), 噤 (unable to speak), 沈默 (silence), 侐 (still), 宓 (still). (various references) | |
Czech | tichý (calm, mum, noiseless, Pacific, peaceable, quiet, restful, soundless, still, stock-still, subdued, tacit, tranquil, unspoken), mlèenlivý (decretive, taciturn, uncommunicative, voiceless), mlèící (tongue tied), klidný (calm, collected, composed, cool, easy, halcyon, impassive, imperturbable, laid back, Pacific, peaceable, peaceful, placid, quiescent, quiet, reposeful, restful, secure, sedate, self possessed, serene, smooth, sober, still, temperate, tranquil, uneventful, unmoved, unperturbed). (various references) | |
Danish | stum nyre (silent kidney), stille interessent (dormant partner, silent partner, sleeping partner), stille brunst (silent heat), sleeping partner (dormant partner, silent partner, sleeping partner), signalpause (silent period), ren sprit (neutral spirit, silent spirit), audiometrirum (audiometric test room, silent chamber), camera silenta (audiometric test room, silent chamber, sound-proofed chamber), dødzone (dead band, insensitivity of control, silent zone, skip zone), haemningsfase (silent period), lyddoedt rum (audiometric test room, silent chamber, sound-proofed chamber), lydtaet rum (audiometric test room, silent chamber, sound-proofed chamber), audiometribo (audiometric test room, silent chamber), passiv risiko (silent risk), tavst gen (silent gene), tandhjulskaede (inverted tooth chain, silent chain), tavs tumor (silent tumour), passiv kompagnon (dormant partner, silent partner, sleeping partner). (various references) | |
Dutch | stil (calm, motionless, noiseless, quiet, silently). (various references) | |
Esperanto | silenta. (various references) | |
Farsi | ساکت (Acquiescent, Calm, Hush, Imperturbable, Serene, Shush, Still, Whist), صامت (Consonantal, Mute, Speechless), خموش (Hush, Quiet), خاموش (Quiet, Still, Tacit, Taciturn, Uncommunicative, Whist), ارام (Bland, Calm, Daft, Douce, Gentle, Hush, Imperturbable, Moderate, Pacific, Peaceable, Peaceful, Placid, Quiet, Sedate, Serene, Staid, Taciturn, Tranquil, Unblenched, Unruffled, Whist), بیحرف , بیصدا (Quiet). (various references) | |
Finnish | vaiti, vaitelias (reticent, taciturn, uncommunicative), mykkä filmi, hiljainen (dull, low, quiet, still, taciturn), äänetön (soundless, still, tacit). (various references) | |
French | silencieux (silenced, silencer). (various references) | |
German | still (calm, dormant, hidden, hush, motionless, mum, mumly, placid, quiescent, quiet, quietly, secret, silently, sleeping, still, tacit, tranquil), schweigend (closemouthed, in silence, muted, silencing, silently). (various references) | |
Greek | σιωπηλόσ (mum, tacit, tightlipped, tongue tied, wordless), σιωπηλός, εχέμυθοσ (discreet, reticent, secretive), άφωνοσ (mum, mute, speechless, unvoiced, voiceless), αμίλητοσ (unspoken). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מחריש (deafening, silencing), שתוק (dumb, neutralization, palsy, paralysis, silenced, silencing), שתקן (reticent, taciturn), שתקני (reticent, taciturn, tightlipped), שותק (tacit), שקט (calmness, dummy, hush, peaceful, quiescent, quiet, quietude, secluded, silence, still, stillness, tranquil), אלם (dumb, dumbness, dummy, hush, mute, muteness, silence, voiceless), חשאי (clandestine, discreet, inmost, quiet, secret, sneaky, stealthy, surreptitious, under cover, underhand). (various references) | |
Hungarian | zajtalan (noiseless, soundless), hangtalan (soundless, speechless, toneless, voiceless), csendes (calm, low, mum, Pacific, peaceful, quiescent, quiet, restful, sequestered, serene, still, stilly, tranquil, unruffled, whist). (various references) | |
Indonesian | diam (abide, bunk, idle, motionless), cep (sudden silence), bungkam (not go off, speechless). (various references) | |
Inuktitut | nipaittuq (to be silent). (various references) | |
Italian | silenzioso (noiseless, quiet), muto (blank, dumb, mute, speechless, tongue tied, voiceless). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 静粛. (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | しいんと (quiet), しゅくぜん (longstanding desire, quiet, solemn), しんしん (being full, body and mind, brimfull, deeply forested, grow very late at night, mind, mind and body, piercing, rising, up-and-coming), しんかん (annexe, fuse, heart, Imperial letter, new book, new patient, new publication, shake, Shinto priest, silence, still), ひっそり (deserted, quiet, still), せいしゅく (constellation), かもく (course, curriculum, shy, subject, Tuesdays and Thursdays), むせい (asexual, nocturnal emission, noiseless, unvoiced, voiceless, wet dream), サイレント , もくもく (mute, tacit). (various references) | |
Korean | 침묵하는. (various references) | |
Manx | tostagh (incommunicative, noiseless, reserved, reticent, silence, tacit, taciturn), balloo (dumb person, tongue-tied). (various references) | |
Norwegian | stille (quiet). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ilentsay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | silencioso (damper, half-light, muffler, noiseless, quiescent, quiet, silencer, soundless, speechless, tuneless), calado (dumb, gloomily, half-light, mute, quiet, reticent, secretive, speechless, tongue-tied). (various references) | |
Romanian | taciturn (close-lipped, saturnine, sullen, taciturn), tãcut (close-lipped, discreet, dumb, mousy, mum, quiet, reserved, silently, still, sullen, tacit, voiceless), mut (dumb, inarticulate, mute, mutely, sharp, silently, speechless, voiceless), liniştit (breathless, calm, calmly, comfortable, composed, cool, dead, dispassionate, easy, even, gentle, gently, gently-sloping, halcyon, imperturbable, in comfortable circumstances, mild, noiseless, orderly, Pacific, passive, peaceable, peaceful, peacefully, placid, placidly, quiescent, quiet, reposeful, restful, secure, sedate, serene, slow, smooth, sober, soft, still, tranquil, unabashed, unruffled, untroubled), fãrã zgomot (noiselessly, silently, soft, still), discret (circumspect, delicate, discreet, hushed, maiden, mellow, reserved, secret, secretive, subdued, unobtrusive). (various references) | |
Russian | умалчивающий (reticent), тихий (halcyon, mild, mild-mannered, quiet, soft-spoken, still, stilly, untroubled), немой (dumb, mute, speechless), молчаливый (inarticulate, mum, mute, tacit, taciturn, tight lipped, tight-lipped), безмолвный (mute, speechless). (various references) | |
Scottish | tosd (quietness : 'na thosd, silence), balbh (dumb), bìth (gum, pitch, quiet, resin, tar, tranquil). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | nem (dumb, mute, speechless, tongue tied, voiceless), koji ćuti. (various references) | |
Spanish | mudo (blank, dumb, mute, quiescent, speechless, voiceless). (various references) | |
Swedish | tyst (hush, implicit, in silence, mental reservation, mum, mute, noiseless, quiet, quietly, silence, silently, still, tacit), tystlåten (aciturn, reticent, saturnine, secretive, taciturn, tight lipped). (various references) | |
Thai | เงียบ (clam up, hush, hushed, muted, nark it, shush, soundless), หนังเงียบ, ซึ่งไม่ได้กล่าวถึง. (various references) | |
Turkish | suskun (mute, reticent, self contained, speechless, taciturn, tongue tied), sessiz (close-tongued, dumb, hushed, mum, mute, muted, noiseless, nonviolent, non-violent, quiescent, quiet, reserved, reticent, soundless, speechless, still, surd, tacit, taciturn, tuneless, unvoiced, voiceless, without a sound, wordless), yazıldığı halde okunmayan, içten içe güdülen, içinden okunan. (various references) | |
Turkmen | sessiz (mute). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | тихий (airless, calm, dormant, low, noiseless, peaceful, quiet, soundless, still, stilly, under), небагатослівний (short-spoken, terse), мовчазний (broody, dumb, inarticulate, mum, mute, obmutescent, quiescent, reticent, soundless, stilly, tacit, taciturn, tight lipped, uncommunicative, wordless), безшумний (inaudible, noiseless). (various references) | |
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