Silent

Definition

silent /'saÇlǝnt/ adj ၁။ (က) အသံမထြက္ေသာ။ တိတ္ဆိတ္ေသာ။ (ေျခ)လံုေသာ။ with silent footsteps ❍ the smooth, silent running of the engine ❍ The music stopped, and the room fell silent. (ခ) အသံမထြက္ေသာ။ မဖြင့္ဟေသာ။ a silent prayer/protest ❍ I watched her in silent admiration. ၂။ (က) ႏႈတ္ဆိတ္ေသာ။ ၿငိမ္သက္ေသာ။ The vast crowd fell silent. ❍ There were several questions I wanted to ask but I kept/remained silent. ❍ Everyone stood in shocked, silent groups. ❍ On certain important details the report is strangely silent. (ခ) ႏႈတ္နည္းေသာ။ စကားနည္းေသာ။ He is the strong, silent type. သူကစကား နည္းၿပီး ခိုင္မာျပတ္သားတဲ့ လူစား။ ၃။ အသံတိတ္(႐ုပ္ရွင္)။ a silent film/movie ❍ the silent screen. ၄။ အသံမထြက္ရေသာ အကၡရာ။ The ‘b’ in ‘doubt’ and the ‘w’ in ‘wrong’ are silent. ❍ QUIET ❏ silently adv တစ္ခြန္းမွ်မဟဘဲ။ တိတ္တိတ္ဆိတ္ဆိတ္။ ၿငိမ္ၿငိမ္ဆိမ္ဆိမ္။ standing silently beside him ❍ They drove on silently. ❏ the silent majority [ IDM ] ဆိတ္ဆိတ္ေနသည့္ လူမ်ားစု။ ❏ silent partner n ( US ) = SLEEPING PARTNER

Examples

1. Everyone was totally silent as the president spoke.
2. A crowd of silent onlookers
3. Fathers were expected to be strong and silent.
4. A silent woman
5. If you are arrested
6. you have the right to remain silent (=you do not have to give information to the police).
7. [silent on] : For the time being
8. I prefer to stay silent on the matter.
9. [silent about] : Everyone was asked to keep silent about the new project.
10. Silent reading
11. He said a silent prayer.
12. We hiked through a silent pine forest.
13. The house was silent except for the hum of the refrigerator.
14. High blood pressure is a silent killer.
15. A silent infection
16. The ‘h’ in ‘herb’ is silent in American English.
17. She walked silently towards the door.