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Definition
adj (English)
1. (not comparable) Having the same stated quality continuously from a past timeExamples: "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."not-comparable
2. (obsolete) Constant; continual.Examples: "By still practice learn to know thy meaning."; "[…] A lifelong tract of time reveal’d; The fruitful hours of still increase; Days order’d in a wealthy peace, And those five years its richest field."Synonyms: incessant, ongoing, unremitting, amaranthine, ceaseless, constant, continual, continuateobsolete
3. (botany, dated) Dormant.Examples: "a still spore"dated
adv (English)
1. (aspect) Up to a time, as in the preceding time.Examples: "Is it still raining? It was still raining five minutes ago."; "We’ve seen most of the sights, but we are still visiting the museum."; "I’m still not wise enough to answer that."Synonyms: yetnot-comparable
2. (degree) To an even greater degree. Used to modify comparative adjectives or adverbs.Examples: "Tom is tall; Dick is taller; Harry is still taller / Harry is taller still."; "The guilt being great, the fear doth still exceed."Synonyms: yet, evennot-comparable
3. (conjunctive) Nevertheless.Examples: "I’m not hungry, but I’ll still manage to find room for dessert."; "Yeah, but still..."; "She'd been here many times before, it was true. Still, she held out some hope."Synonyms: nonethelessconjunctivenot-comparable
4. (archaic, poetic) Always; invariably; constantly; continuously.Examples: "Lechery, lechery, still wars and lechery; nothing else holds fashion."; "[W]hereas many Chymiſts vvould be vaſtly rich, if they could ſtill do in great Quantities vvhat they have ſometimes done in little ones, many have undone themſelves by obſtinately attempting to make even real Experiments more gainful."; "The desire of fame betrays an ambitious man into indecencies that lessen his reputation; he is still afraid lest any of his actions should be thrown away in private."Synonyms: consistentlyarchaicnot-comparablepoetic
5. (extensive) Even, yet.Examples: "Some dogs howl; more yelp; still more bark."; "Some poems, echoing the purpose of early poetic treatises on scientific principles, attempt to elucidate the mathematical concepts that underlie prime numbers. Others play with primes’ cultural associations. Still others derive their structure from mathematical patterns involving primes."not-comparable
noun (English)
1. (photography) A photograph, as opposed to movie footage.
2. (photography) A photograph, as opposed to movie footage.
3. (slang) A resident of the Falkland Islands.Synonyms: Benny, Falklander, Kelperslang
noun (English)
1. (catering) A large water boiler used to make tea and coffee.
2. (catering) The area in a restaurant used to make tea and coffee, separate from the main kitchen.
verb (English)
1. (obsolete) To trickle, drip.Examples: "And if that any drop of slombring rest / Did chaunce to still into her wearie spright,"obsolete
Definition source: Wiktionary