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单词 stillbirth
释义

still1 /stil/

adjective
  1. Motionless
  2. Inactive
  3. Silent
  4. Calm
  5. Quiet
  6. Not sparkling or effervescing
  7. Continual, constant (Shakespeare)
transitive verb
  1. To quiet
  2. To silence
  3. To appease
  4. To restrain
intransitive verb

To become still

adverb
  1. Without motion
  2. Up to the present time or time in question
  3. As before
  4. Yet, even (usu with a compar)
  5. Even so, even then
  6. Nevertheless, for all that
  7. Inactively
  8. Quietly
  9. Always, constantly (archaic)
noun
  1. Calm
  2. Quiet
  3. An ordinary photograph, or one taken from a cinematographic film and used for publicity, etc purposes
ORIGIN: OE stille quiet, calm, stable; Du stil, Ger still

stillˈer noun

Someone who, or something which, stills or quiets, or prevents splashing over

stillˈing noun and adjective

stillˈness noun

stillˈy adjective (poetic)

  1. Still
  2. Quiet
  3. Calm
adverb /stilˈli/ (archaic)
  1. Silently
  2. Gently

still air range noun

The theoretical ultimate range of an aircraft without wind and with allowances only for take-off, climb to cruising altitude, descent and alighting

stillˈbirth noun

  1. The birth of an already dead child (or animal)
  2. Anything born without life

stillˈborn adjective

Dead, or in suspended animation, when born (also figurative)

still hunt or still hunting noun (US)

Stalking

stillˈ-hunt transitive verb and intransitive verb (US).

stillˈ-hunter noun (US).

still life noun (pl still lifes)

  1. The class of pictures representing inanimate objects
  2. A picture of this class

stillˈ-life adjective

Relating to the representation of inanimate objects

still-peerˈing adjective (Shakespeare)

Perh a misprint for still-piecing (ie repairing) or still-piercing

stillˈ-stand noun

  1. A standstill (Shakespeare)
  2. An armistice (obsolete)

still video adjective (photography)

Of or relating to (an image photographed by) a camera which records images on a floppy disk and enables them to be transferred direct to a computer

still and all (informal)

Nevertheless (also (Scot) still and on)

still and anon or still and end (Shakespeare)

From time to time

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