SILENT

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silent adjectiv

1. tăcut, taciturn, mut;

silent man om tăcut / taciturn / necomunicativ;

history is silent upon it istoria nu spune nimic despre aceasta;

to keep silent(about) a tăcea (cu privire la);

be silent! taci! tăceţi! tăcere!

silent as the tomb tăcut ca mormântul.

2. fără zgomot, încet, nezgomotos;

(av.) silent approach apropiere fără zgomot de ţintă, planare cu motorul stins.

3. (fon. despre consoane) mut.

All was again silent, but his words rang in my ears.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

She was more silent than ever.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

When I had finished, Annie remained, for some few moments, silent, with her head bent down, as I have described.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

“Livesey,” returned the squire, “you are always in the right of it. I'll be as silent as the grave.”

(Treasure Island, de Robert Louis Stevenson)

She and Mrs. Weston were obliged to be almost always either talking together or silent together.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

I stood still and silent till his sobs died away, and then I said softly to him:—Come and look at her.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

She made no answer, and for an awkward moment they sat silent.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

No answer came back from the silent shadows.

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

For five minutes he was silent.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There were days when she was quite silent; but there were others when I could not account for the sounds she made.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)