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Definition: Stock-still |
Stock-stillAdjective1. Absolutely still; "frozen with horror"; "they stood rooted in astonishment". Adverb1. Without moving or making a sound; "he sat still as a statue"; "time stood still"; "they waited stock-still outside the door"; "he couldn't hold still any longer". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "stock-still" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1719. (references) |
Etymology: Stock-still \Stock"-still`\, adjective. [Compare to German stock-still.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: Stock-stillSynonyms: frozen(p) (adj), rooted(p) (adj), still (adv). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Stock-still |
| English words defined with "stock-still": still. (references) |
| "Stock-still" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Stock-still" is used about 21 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% | 21 | 76,261 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "stock-still"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | palëvizshme, i palëvizshëm (at rest, fixed, immobile, immovable, inert, motionless, moveless, quiescent, stationary, unmoved). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | неподвижен (at rest, attached, fast, fixed, immobile, inelastic, motionless, moveless, put, quiescent, rigid, sessile, set, slack, stationary, statuesque, steadfast, still, stirless, unacted), много тих. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 股票仍然. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | tichý (calm, mum, noiseless, Pacific, peaceable, quiet, restful, silent, soundless, still, subdued, tacit, tranquil, unspoken), nehybnì. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | mäuschenstill (dead quiet, quiet as a mouse). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | teljesen mozdulatlan (not to move hand or foot), mozdulatlan (fixed, immobile, immovable, motionless, moveless, stagnant, stationary, still, unmoved). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 장 아직도. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | gyn lheil. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ock-stillstay ţintuit (rooted). (various references) неподвижный (at rest, dead, fixed, immobile, immovable, motionless, moveless, quiescent, rigid, static, stationary, unmoved), неподвижно (at pause, fixedly, stiffly). (various references) kao ukupan. (various references) absolut stilla. (various references) hareketsiz (at rest, dormant, flat, immobile, in repose, inactive, inert, motionless, ponderous, put, quiescent, sleepy, stagnant, staring, stationary, still, tepid), durgun (airless, bovine, calm, depressed, ditch water, ditchwater, flat, halcyon, in the doldrums, inactive, languid, lifeless, placid, quiescent, quiet, serene, settled, slack, sleepy, stagnant, standing, static, still, tranquil, unruffled, untroubled, windless). (various references) yên như phỗng, không nhúc nhích (immobile, stirless). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-i-k-l-l-o-s-s-t-t" | |
-2 letters: stockist. | |
-4 letters: sickos, skills, slicks, sticks, stills, stilts, stocks, stoics. | |
-5 letters: cists, clits, clots, coils, colts, costs, kills, kilos, kilts, kists, licks, lilts, lists, locks, lotic, scots, sicko, sicks, silks, sills, silos, silts, skill, skits, slick, slits, slots, socks, soils, stick, still, stilt, stock, stoic, ticks, tills, tilts, toils, toits, tolls. | |
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