still

adj

1. Not moving; calm.

   “Sit there and stay still!”

   “Still waters run deep.”

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. (not-comparable)Having the same stated quality continuously from a past time

   “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. (obsolete)Constant; continual.

   “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.”

7. (dated)Dormant.

   “a still spore”

adv

1. (not-comparable)Without motion.

   “They stood still until the guard was out of sight.”

2. (not-comparable)Up to a time, as in the preceding time.

   “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.”

   “It hath been anciently reported, and is still received.”

   “Edward Churchill still attended to his work in a hopeless mechanical manner like a sleep-walker who walks safely on a well-known round. But his Roman collar galled him, his cossack stifled him, his biretta was as uncomfortable as a merry-andrew's cap and bells.”

3. (not-comparable)To an even greater degree. Used to modify comparative adjectives or adverbs.

   “Tom is tall; Dick is taller; Harry is still taller / Harry is taller still.”

   “The guilt being great, the fear doth still exceed.”

4. (conjunctive, not-comparable)Nevertheless.

   “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.”

   “As sunshine, broken in the rill, / Though turned astray, is sunshine still.”

   “Given the thorny intelligence of [J. C.] Chandor’s previous films (which also include Margin Call and A Most Violent Year), it's hard to believe that he thought it was a good idea to play Fleetwood Mac's "The Chain" over a sequence of Pope telling the others that he can't do this job without them, or to accompany shots of the men running through the jungle with Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Run Through The Jungle." (Okay, they're stealthily walking. But still.)”

5. (archaic, not-comparable, poetic)Always; invariably; constantly; continuously.

   “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.”

   “I vex my heart with fancies dim: ⁠He still outstript me in the race; ⁠It was but unity of place That made me dream I rank’d with him.”

6. (not-comparable)Even, yet.

   “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.”

7. (alt-of, alternative, not-comparable)Alternative spelling of styll.

   “'Yeah yeah, I'm good still, Stace,' I said.”

   “HALIL: I can't lie, I didn't expect it from you, man, still!”

noun

1. A period of calm or silence.

   “the still of the night”

   “Between the roar of the thunder and the blatter of the rain there were intervals of an astounding still, of an ominous suspense […]”

   “As the ground warms, to the first rays of light, / A birdsong shatters the still.”

2. A photograph, as opposed to movie footage.
3. A photograph, as opposed to movie footage.

   “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!”

4. (slang)A resident of the Falkland Islands.
5. A device for distilling liquids.
6. A large water boiler used to make tea and coffee.
7. The area in a restaurant used to make tea and coffee, separate from the main kitchen.
8. A building where liquors are distilled; a distillery.

verb

1. To calm down, to quiet.

   “to still the raging sea”

   “They likewise believed that he, having a full Sway and Command over the Water, had Power to still and compose it, as well as to move and disturb it […]”

   “Is this the scourge of France? / Is this the Talbot, so much fear'd abroad / That with his name the mothers still their babes?”

   “[…] withholding myself from toil that would, at least, have stilled an unquiet impulse in me.”

   “Near the pond was the ducking-stool where many a village scold had her tongue temporarily stilled.”

2. (obsolete)To trickle, drip.

   “And if that any drop of slombring rest / Did chaunce to still into her wearie spright,”

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”

name

1. A surname.