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Still

adverb
1.
With reference to action or condition; without change, interruption, or cessation.  "Will you still love me when we're old and grey?"
2.
Despite anything to the contrary (usually following a concession).  Synonyms: all the same, even so, however, nevertheless, nonetheless, notwithstanding, withal, yet.  "While we disliked each other, nevertheless we agreed" , "He was a stern yet fair master" , "Granted that it is dangerous, all the same I still want to go"
3.
To a greater degree or extent; used with comparisons.  Synonyms: even, yet.  "An even (or still) more interesting problem" , "Still another problem must be solved" , "A yet sadder tale"
4.
Without moving or making a sound.  Synonym: stock-still.  "Time stood still" , "They waited stock-still outside the door" , "He couldn't hold still any longer"
adjective
(compar. stiller; superl. stillest)
1.
Not in physical motion.  Synonyms: inactive, motionless, static.
2.
Marked by absence of sound.  Synonyms: silent, soundless.  "Soundless footsteps on the grass" , "The night was still"
3.
(of a body of water) free from disturbance by heavy waves.  Synonyms: placid, quiet, smooth, tranquil, unruffled.  "The quiet waters of a lagoon" , "A lake of tranquil blue water reflecting a tranquil blue sky" , "A smooth channel crossing" , "Scarcely a ripple on the still water" , "Unruffled water"
4.
Used of pictures; of a single or static photograph not presented so as to create the illusion of motion; or representing objects not capable of motion.  "Cezanne's still life of apples"
5.
Not sparkling.  Synonym: noneffervescent.  "Still mineral water"
6.
Free from noticeable current.  "Still waters run deep"
noun
1.
A static photograph (especially one taken from a movie and used for advertising purposes).
2.
(poetic) tranquil silence.  Synonyms: hush, stillness.
3.
An apparatus used for the distillation of liquids; consists of a vessel in which a substance is vaporized by heat and a condenser where the vapor is condensed.
4.
A plant and works where alcoholic drinks are made by distillation.  Synonym: distillery.
verb
(past & past part. stilled; pres. part. stilling)
1.
Make calm or still.  Synonyms: calm, calm down, lull, quiet, quieten, tranquilize, tranquillise, tranquillize.
2.
Cause to be quiet or not talk.  Synonyms: hush, hush up, quieten, shut up, silence.
3.
Lessen the intensity of or calm.  Synonyms: allay, ease, relieve.  "Still the fears"
4.
Make motionless.



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"Still" Quotes from Famous Books



... list of all the radical organizations and their members, getting evidence preliminary to arrests. Guffey was in charge of the job; as in the Goober case, the big business interests of the city were going ahead while the government was still wiping the sleep out of its eyes. Would Peter take a job spying upon the Reds in ...
— 100%: The Story of a Patriot • Upton Sinclair
... exists upon the question of a camping-ground. It is accordingly most difficult to believe the statements of your interpreter: he may have old friends in a town to which you believe him to be a stranger; he may have the remains of an old love, and a wish to meet again; or he may have a still more powerful attraction in the remembrance of an agreeable cafe where he can refresh himself with liquor, revel in cigarettes, and play at dominoes. It is therefore necessary to be upon your guard when approaching ...
— Cyprus, as I Saw it in 1879 • Sir Samuel W. Baker
... come for a walk? The time seems so long when you are sitting still. A nice brisk walk through the woods!" suggested Nan insinuatingly; but Maud drew back with ...
— A Houseful of Girls • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
... overcoming all the vices, man is still tempted to pride or vainglory: since pride "worms itself in stealthily, and destroys even good works," as Augustine says (Ep. ccxi). Therefore Matthew unfittingly gives the last place to the temptation to covetousness on the mountain, and the second ...
— Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) - From the Complete American Edition • Thomas Aquinas
... which first inhabited this land were called Canaries by the conquerors, they were clothed in goat skinnes made like vnto a loose cassocke, they dwelt in caues in the rocks, [Footnote: Many thousand persons, including a colony of free negroes, still reside in cave dwellings in the hill side.] in great amity and brotherly loue. They spake all one language: their chiefe feeding was gelt dogges, goates, and goates milke, their bread was made of barley meale and goates milke, called Gofia, which they ...
— The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries - Vol. II • Richard Hakluyt


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