still

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj. 副词 adv.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A device for distilling liquids.
  2. A period of calm or silence.
    — the still of the night
  3. A large water boiler used to make tea and coffee.
  4. A photograph, as opposed to movie footage.
  5. The area in a restaurant used to make tea and coffee, separate from the main kitchen.
  6. A photograph, as opposed to movie footage.; A single frame from a film.
    — One of his best stories was "Barney Oldfield's Race for a Life" (1914), of which there survives only an amusing still, showing poor Mabel Normand chained to the rails by two toughs, the moustached villain threatening her with a sledge-hammer, and an awful sense of that inexorably approaching express!
  7. A building where liquors are distilled; a distillery.
  8. A resident of the Falkland Islands. slang
动词 v.
  1. To trickle, drip. obsolete
    — And if that any drop of slombring rest / Did chaunce to still into her wearie spright,
  2. To calm down, to quiet.
    — to still the raging sea
  3. To cause to fall by drops.
  4. To expel spirit from by heat, or to evaporate and condense in a refrigeratory; to distill.
    — The knowledge of stilling is one pretty feat, The waters be wholesome, the charges not great
形容词 adj.
  1. Not moving; calm.
    — Sit there and stay still!
  2. Not effervescing; not sparkling.
    — still water; still wines
  3. Uttering no sound; silent.
    — The sea that roared at thy command, / At thy command was still.
  4. Having the same stated quality continuously from a past time not-comparable
    — To follow the still President’s marching orders, all that Secretary Ronnie Puno has to do is to follow the road map laid out by Justice Azcuna in his “separate” opinion.
  5. Comparatively quiet or silent; soft; gentle; low.
    — […] a still small voice.
  6. Constant; continual. obsolete
    — By still practice learn to know thy meaning.
  7. Dormant. dated
    — a still spore
副词 adv.
  1. Without motion. not-comparable
    — They stood still until the guard was out of sight.
  2. Up to a time, as in the preceding time. not-comparable
    — Is it still raining? It was still raining five minutes ago.
  3. To an even greater degree. Used to modify comparative adjectives or adverbs. not-comparable
    — Tom is tall; Dick is taller; Harry is still taller / Harry is taller still.
  4. Nevertheless. conjunctive,not-comparable
    — I’m not hungry, but I’ll still manage to find room for dessert.
  5. Always; invariably; constantly; continuously. archaic,not-comparable,poetic
    — Lechery, lechery, still wars and lechery; nothing else holds fashion.
  6. Even, yet. not-comparable
    — Some dogs howl; more yelp; still more bark.
  7. Alternative spelling of styll. alt-of,alternative,not-comparable
    — 'Yeah yeah, I'm good still, Stace,' I said.

词形变化

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词汇关系

近义词
though yet invariably uniformly
衍生词
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相关词
styll pot still

词源

词源 1
From Middle English stille (“motionless, stationary”), from Old English stille (“still, quiet”), from Proto-West Germanic *stillī, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)telH- (“to be silent; to be still”). Cognate with Scots stil (“still”), Saterland Frisian stil (“motionless, calm, quiet”), West Frisian stil (“quiet, still”), Dutch stil (“quiet, silent, still”), Low German still (“quiet, silent, still”), German still (“still, quiet, tranquil, silent”), Swedish stilla (“quiet, silent, peaceful”), Icelandic stilltur (“set, quiet, calm, still”). Related to stall.
(noun: Falkland Islander): Military slang, short for still a Benny, since the military had been instructed not to refer to the islanders by the derogatory term Benny (which see).
词源 2
Via Middle English stillen, clip of distillen; Old French distiller; Latin distillare, from dis- + stillare, from Latin stilla.
词源 3
Etymology tree
Old English stillan
English still
Inherited from Old English stillan.
词源 4
Aphetic form of distil, or from Latin stillare.
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