Still
Motionless; at rest; quiet; as, to stand still; to lie or sit still.
Uttering no sound; silent; as, the audience is still; the animals are still.
Not disturbed by noise or agitation; quiet; calm; as, a still evening; a still atmosphere.
Comparatively quiet or silent; soft; gentle; low.
Constant; continual.
Not effervescing; not sparkling; as, still wines.
Freedom from noise; calm; silence; as, the still of midnight.
A steep hill or ascent.
To this time; until and during the time now present; now no less than before; yet.
In the future as now and before.
In continuation by successive or repeated acts; always; ever; constantly; uniformly.
In an increasing or additional degree; even more; -- much used with comparatives.
Notwithstanding what has been said or done; in spite of what has occured; nevertheless; -- sometimes used as a conjunction. See Synonym of But.
After that; after what is stated.
To stop, as motion or agitation; to cause to become quiet, or comparatively quiet; to check the agitation of; as, to still the raging sea.
To stop, as noise; to silence.
To appease; to calm; to quiet, as tumult, agitation, or excitement; as, to still the passions.
A vessel, boiler, or copper used in the distillation of liquids; specifically, one used for the distillation of alcoholic liquors; a retort. The name is sometimes applied to the whole apparatus used in in vaporization and condensation.
A house where liquors are distilled; a distillery.
To cause to fall by drops.
To expel spirit from by heat, or to evaporate and condense in a refrigeratory; to distill.
To drop, or flow in drops; to distill.
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Still Quotations
I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.
Winston Churchill
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
Albert Einstein
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
Albert Einstein
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.
Henry David Thoreau
Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
Abraham Lincoln
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
Mark Twain
It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.
Mark Twain
Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
Benjamin Franklin
Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
Bruce Lee
I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent.
Marilyn Monroe
Still Translations
still in Afrikaans is nog
still in Danish is endnu
still in Dutch is nog
still in French is encore, alambic, droite
still in German is noch, noch, still, doch, unbewegt, dennoch, ruhig
still in Latin is atqui, etiamnun, tamen, placidus, adhuc, silens
still in Portuguese is ainda
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