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silencer

/ˈsʌɪlənsə/

US pronunciation
American sound/ˈsʌɪlənsə/
silencer
Syllables
3 syllables
Stress
1st syllable stress
Vowel
Schwa vowel
Ending
Final r is pronounced in US English

si - len - cer -> silencer

Myanmar meaning

(US muffler) ယာဉ်အိတ်ဇောမှမြည်သံကိုလျော့ပါးစေသည့် ကိရိယာ။ ဆိုင်လင်ဆာ။ ©CAR

Full entry

silence /'saÇlǝns/ n

၁။ [U] တိတ်ဆိတ်ခြင်း။ ဆိတ်ငြိမ်ခြင်း။ the silence of the night ❍ A scream broke/shattered the silence. ❍ In the library silence reigned (ie it was totally silent).
၂။ (က) [U]ဆိတ်ဆိတ်နေခြင်း။ ရေငုံနှုတ်ပိတ်နေခြင်း။ All my questions (were) met with silence from him. ❍ They listened to him in silence. ❍ The teacher's stern look reduced him to silence. ဆရာ၏ စူးရှခက်ထန်သော အကြည့်က သူ့အားဆွံ့ အသွားစေသည်။ ❍ I can't understand her silence on this matter.
ဒီကိစ္စနဲ့ပတ်သက်လို့သူတိတ်ချက်သားကောင်းနေတာကို ငါတော့နားမလည်နိုင်ဘူး။ ❍ I assume that your silence implies consent. ခင်ဗျားဆိတ်ဆိတ်နေ တာကို ဝန်ခံတယ်လို့ပဲ ကျုပ်ယူဆလိုက်တယ်။ ❍ After a year's silence (ie a year during which she did not write), I got a letter from her. ❍ They tried to buy his silence. သူတို့က ငွေနဲ့လာဘ်ထိုးပြီး နှုတ်ပိတ်ဖို့ ကြိုးစားတယ်။
(ခ) [C] ဆိတ်ဆိတ် နေခြင်း။ တိတ်ချက်သားကောင်းခြင်း။ ဝစီပိတ် နေခြင်း။ She became used to his long silences. ❍ a one-minute silence in honour of the dead ❍ There was a brief silence, followed by uproar. ❍ (joc ) a deafening (ie very noticeable) silence.
v နှုတ်ဆိတ်စေသည်။ ငြိမ်သက်စေသည်။ Her critics refused to be silenced. ❍ His look of disapproval silenced her. ❍ silence the enemy's guns (eg by destroying them) ❍ Their doubts were not easily silenced.
interj တိတ်စေ။ တိတ်။ ‘Silence!’ he roared.
❏ silence is golden [IDM ] (saying ) ဆိတ်ဆိတ်နေသော် ထောင်တန်၏။
❏ silencer n (က) (Brit ) (US muffler ) ယာဉ်အိတ်ဇောမှမြည်သံကိုလျော့ပါးစေသည့် ကိရိယာ။ ဆိုင်လင်ဆာ။ ❍CAR
(ခ) (သေနတ်) အသံတိတ်ကိရိယာ။

More examples
  • The owl’s cry cut through the silence in the forest.
  • The silence was broken by the soft sound of rain.
  • When I answered the phone there was dead silence (=no sound at all).
  • Long silences make her uncomfortable.
  • We stared at each other in stunned silence.
  • [a moment of silence] : We begin our service with a moment of silence.
  • [in silence] : They drove home in silence.
  • She maintained an angry silence.
  • [silence on] : Her silence on the subject has been interpreted as a sign of guilt.
  • A letter finally arrived from Lee, ending his long silence.
Synonyms
quiet, stillness, peace, hush, calm, be quiet, blackout, censorship, choke off, clam, clam up, close up, confidentiality, cool it, curb, cut off, cut short, dampen, dead air, deaden, death, decrease the volume, dry up, dull, dumb, dumbness, dummy up, extinguish, gag, hold one's tongue, hush one's mouth, hush-hush, inarticulateness, iron curtain, keep it down, laconism, lull, make quiet, muffle, mute, muteness, muzzle, noiselessness, overawe, pipe down, put an end to, quash, quell, quiescence, quiet down, quieten, quietness, quietude, quietus, reserve, reticence, saturninity, say nothing, secrecy, shush, shut up, sit on, sleep, slumberous, smother, soft-pedal, speech, speechlessness, squelch, stifle, still, stop, strike dumb, subdue, sulk, sullenness, suppress, surreptitiousness, taciturnity, tongue-tie, uncommunicativeness
Antonyms
agitation, allow, be noisy, chatter, clamor, communicate, communication, encourage, help, let go, noise, permit, release, start, talk
Cross references
quietstillnesspeacehushcalmbe quietblackoutcensorshipchoke offclamclam upclose upconfidentialitycool itcurbcut offcut shortdampendead airdeadendeathdecrease the volumedry updulldumbdumbnessdummy upextinguish
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