SILENCE

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Traducere în limba română

silence I. substantiv

tăcere, linişte;

silence gives consent tăcerea înseamnă aprobare;

to break silence a întrerupe tăcerea;

to call for silence a cere să se facă linişte;

(prov.) silence is golden tăcerea e de aur;

to pass into silence a fi dat uitării;

to put to silence a face să tacă, a reduce la tăcere;

dead / blank / unbroken silence tăcere absolută;

deathlike silence tăcere mormântală / de mormânt;

to pass over smth. in silence a trece ceva sub tăcere.

silence II. verb tranzitiv

1. a reduce (pe cineva) la tăcere; a face să tacă (un adversar, consţiinţa etc.).

2. a înăbuşi;

a carpet that silences all footsteps un covor care înăbuşe zgomotul paşilor.

Burns made no answer: I wondered at her silence.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

It was Summerlee who first broke the silence.

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"Well, aren't you glad to see me?" she said at the end of another silence.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

They will be angry, he added, after a moment's silence, and in a cooler tone; Mrs. Rushworth will be very angry.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

I sat down, and a silence ensued.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

It is also involved in transcriptional silencing.

(ORC3L Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

This oligoribonucleotide plays a role in the regulation of gene silencing.

(MIR375 Pre-miRNA, NCI Thesaurus)

This gene plays a role in gene silencing.

(MIR375 Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

And there was silence between them for a little while.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

Catherine took her place at the table, and, after a short silence, Eleanor said, No bad news from Fullerton, I hope?

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)