silences (noun)

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• presage — noun /ˈprɛsɪdʒ / (say presij) 1. a presentiment or foreboding. 2. a prophetic impression. 3. something that portends or foreshadows a future event; an omen, prognostic, or warning indication: *The sky lowered more threateningly and the sea… …  

• silencer — noun Date: 1600 one that silences: as a. chiefly British the muffler of an internal combustion engine b. a silencing device for small arms …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• two-minute silence — noun a mark of respect in which all normal activity ceases and people stand in silent thought for two minutes; held regularly at 11 am on Armistice Day, Remembrance Day, and on other occasions, to remember the …   Wiktionary

• silencer — noun a) An attachment to a gun or an exhaust pipe that reduces the sound it emits. b) Something that silences another thing. Syn: suppressor …   Wiktionary

• snooze button — noun A button on an alarm clock which, when pressed, silences the alarm temporarily, granting a few more minutes of sleep before the alarm sounds again …   Wiktionary

• dispiritment — noun Dispiritedness; disheartenment. You honestly quit your tools; quit a most muddy confused coil of sore work, short rations, of sorrows, dispiritments and contradictions, having now honestly done with it all; and await, not entirely in a… …   Wiktionary

• damper — noun 1》 Music a pad that silences a piano string except when it is removed by means of a pedal or by the key being struck. 2》 a device for reducing vibration or oscillation. 3》 a movable metal plate in a flue or chimney, used to regulate the… …   English new terms dictionary

• Harold Pinter — noun English dramatist whose plays are characterized by silences and the use of inaction (born in 1930) • Syn: ↑Pinter • Instance Hypernyms: ↑dramatist, ↑playwright …   Useful english dictionary

• Pinter — noun English dramatist whose plays are characterized by silences and the use of inaction (born in 1930) • Syn: ↑Harold Pinter • Instance Hypernyms: ↑dramatist, ↑playwright …   Useful english dictionary

• silence — I UK [ˈsaɪləns] / US noun Word forms silence : singular silence plural silences *** 1) a) [uncountable] complete quiet The owl s cry cut through the silence in the forest. The silence was broken by the soft sound of rain. When I answered the… …   English dictionary

• squelch — I. verb Etymology: origin unknown Date: 1624 transitive verb 1. a. to fall or stamp on so as to crush b. (1) to completely suppress ; quell < squelch resistance > (2) …   New Collegiate Dictionary