Silence

Definition

silence /'saÇlǝns/ n ၁။ [U] တိတ္ဆိတ္ျခင္း။ ဆိတ္ၿငိမ္ျခင္း။ the silence of the night ❍ A scream broke/shattered the silence. ❍ In the library silence reigned (ie it was totally silent). ၂။ (က) [U]ဆိတ္ဆိတ္ေနျခင္း။ ေရငံုႏႈတ္ပိတ္ေနျခင္း။ 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၏ စူးရွခက္ထန္ေသာ အၾကည့္က သူ႕အားဆြံ႕ အသြားေစသည္။ ❍ I can't understand her silence on this matter. ဒီကိစၥနဲ႔ပတ္သက္လို႔သူတိတ္ခ်က္သားေကာင္းေနတာကို ငါေတာ့နားမလည္ႏိုင္ဘူး။ ❍ I assume that your silence implies consent. ခင္ဗ်ားဆိတ္ဆိတ္ေန တာကို ဝန္ခံတယ္လို႔ပဲ က်ဳပ္ယူဆလိုက္တယ္။ ❍ 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. သူတို႔က ေငြနဲ႔လာဘ္ထိုးၿပီး ႏႈတ္ပိတ္ဖို႔ ႀကိဳးစားတယ္။ (ခ) [C] ဆိတ္ဆိတ္ ေနျခင္း။ တိတ္ခ်က္သားေကာင္းျခင္း။ ဝစီပိတ္ ေနျခင္း။ 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 ႏႈတ္ဆိတ္ေစသည္။ ၿငိမ္သက္ေစသည္။ 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 တိတ္ေစ။ တိတ္။ ‘Silence!’ he roared. ❏ silence is golden [ IDM ] ( saying ) ဆိတ္ဆိတ္ေနေသာ္ ေထာင္တန္၏။ ❏ silencer n (က) ( Brit ) ( US muffler ) ယာဥ္အိတ္ေဇာမွျမည္သံကိုေလ်ာ့ပါးေစသည့္ ကိရိယာ။ ဆိုင္လင္ဆာ။ ❍CAR (ခ) (ေသနတ္) အသံတိတ္ကိရိယာ။

Examples

1. The owl’s cry cut through the silence in the forest.
2. The silence was broken by the soft sound of rain.
3. When I answered the phone there was dead silence (=no sound at all).
4. Long silences make her uncomfortable.
5. We stared at each other in stunned silence.
6. [a moment of silence] : We begin our service with a moment of silence.
7. [in silence] : They drove home in silence.
8. She maintained an angry silence.
9. [silence on] : Her silence on the subject has been interpreted as a sign of guilt.
10. A letter finally arrived from Lee
11. ending his long silence.