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enunciate

English

Etymology

From Latin ?nunti?tus, past participle of ?nunti? (to report, declare), from ?- + n?nti? (to report).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /??n?nsi?e?t/
  • Hyphenation: e?nun?ci?ate

Verb

enunciate (third-person singular simple present enunciates, present participle enunciating, simple past and past participle enunciated)

  1. (transitive) To make a definite or systematic statement of.
  2. To announce, proclaim.
    • 1829, Reverend James Marsh, Preface to Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Aids to Reflection (originally published 1825)
      the terms in which he enunciates the great doctrines of the gospel
  3. (transitive) To articulate, pronounce.
    You must enunciate all the syllables.
  4. (intransitive) To make sounds clearly.
    Enunciate when you speak.

Related terms

  • enunciable
  • enunciation
  • enunciator

Translations


Italian

Verb

enunciate

  1. second-person plural present indicative of enunciare
  2. second-person plural imperative of enunciare
  3. second-person plural present subjunctive of enunciare
  4. feminine plural of enunciato

Anagrams

  • incuneate

Latin

Participle

?nunci?te

  1. vocative masculine singular of ?nunci?tus

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silent

English

Alternative forms

  • scilent (hypercorrect, obsolete)

Etymology

From Latin sil?ns (silent), present participle of sile? (be silent), from Proto-Indo-European *seyl- (still, windless, quiet, slow). Cognate with Gothic ???????????????????????????????? (anasilan, to cease, grow still, be silent), Old English s?lnes (silence).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?sa?l?nt/
  • Rhymes: -a?l?nt

Adjective

silent (comparative silenter or more silent, superlative silentest or most silent)

  1. Free from sound or noise; absolutely still; perfectly quiet.
    • 1604, William Shakespeare, Othello, act 5, scene 1:
      How silent is this town!
    • 1825, Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy, The Works of Samuel Johnson, Talboys and Wheeler, page 52:
      What was formerly performed by fleets and armies, by invasions, sieges, and battles, has been of late accomplished by more silent methods.
    • 1906, William Dean Howells and Sidney Dillon Ripley, Certain Delightful English Towns: With Glimpses of the Pleasant Country Between, Harper & Brothers, page 152:
      The voice of the auctioneer is slow and low [] ; after a pause, which seems no silenter than the rest of the transaction, he ceases to repeat the bids, and his fish, in the measure of a bushel or so, have gone for a matter of three shillings.
  2. Not speaking; indisposed to talk; speechless; mute; taciturn; not loquacious; not talkative.
    • 1725, William Broome, The Odyssey
      Ulysses, adds he, was the most eloquent and most silent of men.
  3. Keeping at rest; inactive; calm; undisturbed.
    The wind is silent.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Parnell to this entry?)
  4. (pronunciation) Not pronounced; having no sound; quiescent.
    The e is silent in fable.
    Silent letters can make some words difficult to spell.
  5. Having no effect; not operating; inefficient.
    • Cause [] silent, virtueless, and dead.
  6. (technology) With the sound turned off; usually on silent or in silent mode.
    My phone was on silent.
  7. (technology) Without audio capability.
    The Magnavox Odyssey was a silent console.
  8. Hidden, unseen.
    a silent voter; a silent partner
  9. Of an edit or change to a text, not explicitly acknowledged.
    silent revisions; a silent emendation
  10. Not implying significant modifications which would affect a peptide sequence.
  11. Undiagnosed or undetected because of an absence of symptoms.
  12. Of distilled spirit: having no flavour or odour.

Synonyms

  • (free from sound or noise): quiet; see also Thesaurus:silent
  • (not speaking; indisposed to talk): speechless, taciturn; see also Thesaurus:taciturn
  • (not speaking; mute): dumb, mute; see also Thesaurus:mute
  • (keeping at rest): dormant, still; see also Thesaurus:inactive
  • (not pronounced): mute, quiescent, servile
  • (hidden; unseen): concealed, invisible, occluded; see also Thesaurus:hidden

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

silent (plural silents)

  1. (uncountable) That which is silent; a time of silence.
  2. A silent movie

Translations

Further reading

  • silent in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
  • silent in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
  • silent at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

  • ELINTs, Teslin, enlist, inlets, leints, listen, tinsel

Catalan

Pronunciation

  • (Balearic, Valencian) IPA(key): /si?lent/
  • (Central) IPA(key): /si?len/

Adjective

silent (masculine and feminine plural silents)

  1. silent
    Synonym: silenciós

French

Verb

silent

  1. third-person plural present indicative of siler
  2. third-person plural present subjunctive of siler

Anagrams

  • lisent

Latin

Verb

silent

  1. third-person plural present active indicative of sile?

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