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  1. adjective Free of sound.
  2. adjective Low in sound; hushed or subdued.
  3. adjective Not moving or in motion.
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  • (Tougher still is the fact that it's impossible to quantify the ROI on a lot of this stuff.) —  InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs
  • I didn't like it as much as you did but this still is a great read. —  NAACHGAANA
  • This just seems to be a step in the right direction on the manny points where America still is an underdeveloped country …. —  Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com
  • In many people's minds, this still was the Saks logo.
  • Tickets to the Final Four still were available from online resellers at premium prices on the eve of Saturday's national semifinals. —  Victoria Advocate stories: News
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  1. Middle English, from Old English stille; see stel- in Indo-European roots.
  2. From Middle English stillen, to distill, from distillen; see distill.

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  1. Early modern English also stil, stille, styll, stylle; from Middle English stille, stylle, from Anglo-Saxon stille = Old Saxon stilli = OFries. stille = Middle Dutch stille, stil, Dutch stil = Middle Low German stille, Low German still = Old High German stilli, Middle High German stille, German still = Icelandic stilltr = Danish stille = Swedish stilla, quiet, still; with adjective formative, from the root (stel) of Anglo-Saxon steall, etc., a place, stall: see stall, stell.
  2. Early modern English also stille, stylle; from Middle English stillen, from Anglo-Saxon stillan = Old Saxon stillian, stillōn = Middle Dutch, Dutch stillen = Middle Low German Low German stillen = Old High German stillan, stillēn, Middle High German G. stillen = Icelandic Swedish stilla = Danish stille, make or become still; from the adjective
  3. Early modern English also stil, stille, styll, stylle; from Middle English stille, from Anglo-Saxon stille = Old Saxon stillo = Dutch stil = Old High German stillo, Middle High German stille, German still = Swedish stilla = Danish stille, quietly; from the adjective
  4. from Middle English *stillen, styllen, in part an abbreviation of distil, in part from Latin stillare, drop, fall in drops, also let or cause to fall in drops, from stilla, a drop; cf. stiria, a frozen drop, an icicle. Cf. distil, instil.
  5. from still, v. The older noun was stillatory.
 

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