What does still mean

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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

still

I.adverb

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

be still in the race (=still have a chance of winning)

▪ Swindon Town is still in the race, despite losing to Manchester City on Saturday.

better still/even better

▪ It was even better than last year.

dead quiet/calm/still

▪ The room was dead quiet while we waited for Ted to reply.

keep still

▪ How can I cut your hair if you won’t keep still!

lie still/awake etc

▪ She would lie awake worrying.

or worse still

▪ Suppose Rose, or worse still, Peter had seen the photograph?

sit still (=without moving)

▪ Young children find it almost impossible to sit still.

Stand still (=do not move)

▪ Stand still and listen to me.

still alive

▪ My grandparents are still alive.

still exist (=existing in the past and continuing to exist)

▪ A number of his early photographs still exist.

still in one piece

▪ Cheer up. At least you’re still in one piece.

still life

still undecided

▪ I’m still undecided about how I’ll vote.

the still air (=air in which there is no wind)

▪ Smoke from the chimneys hung in the still air.

Time...stood still

▪ Time seems to have stood still in this lovely hotel.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ VERB

hold

▪ He was still holding my arm but there was space between us.

▪ He was still holding my hand and then he rubbed my hair.

▪ Bodie was in squash gear, still holding his racquet across his knees.

▪ But instead he takes the mike, turns to me and says: Now see if my. imitation still holds up.

▪ A key element will be the researching of source material still held by different constabularies.

▪ If not, try drawing up a daily schedule that fits your needs and still holds a repetitive rhythm.

▪ But a shared sense of collective values can still hold society together at the local level.

▪ Yet he still holds a Texas license to provide therapy.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

much/still less

▪ The average person is unlikely to pick up this type of book, much less read it.

▪ Equally, science would be much less advanced than it is if the only available data were intuitive estimates of quantities.

▪ Half a century earlier his behaviour would have seemed much more normal and aroused much less criticism.

▪ In the end, the tax brought in much less revenue than originally forecast.

▪ On the battlefield armament was still much less important than discipline and fighting spirit.

▪ She could not afford the bus fare to see a doctor, much less his fee.

▪ The grouping of other languages of the world-and even of their number-is much less clear.

▪ There is not much chance of finding a razor blade, much less using it in the appropriate way.

▪ There was to be no pause for reflection, nor - much less - for a changeover from military to civilian rule.

stand still

▪ Could you stand still for just a minute and listen to me?

▪ Space technology has not stood still.

▪ But, although Ashley stood still and wary, her son showed no inhibitions.

▪ I stood still, right where I was, eavesdropping.

▪ I have stood still instead of fighting on her side as I did in the basement in Lobethal.

▪ I seemed to be standing still.

▪ She stood still, all amazed.

▪ She stood still, savouring the accumulation of days of her life behind her like beads on a string, something tangible.

▪ The law has not been standing still since Jorden v. Money.

▪ The young woman stood still, waiting and smiling: small as a child in her glimmering white silk.

the jury is (still) out on sth

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

▪ After two hours the dog was still there, just sitting and staring at our door.

▪ Are you still going out with that guy you met at Heather's party?

▪ At the age of 50, Marlene was still a beautiful woman.

▪ Do you still have her phone number?

▪ He's been studying French for five years, and still can't speak the language.

▪ I'm still confused. Would you explain it again?

▪ I think John is still in medical school.

▪ She still has that rusty old car.

▪ Soloviov returned to the town where he was born after more than forty years and found his old house still standing.

▪ Traffic was bad, but we still made it to the movie on time.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

▪ Because from my point of view it's still a total flop.

▪ But I still want to know, how do you judge a character?

▪ Every time he turned, the ghost turned too, and was still behind him.

▪ Occasional gunshots can still be heard, though no one seems to know who fires the guns and if anyone is hit.

▪ The Club is still the focal point of his life.

▪ Though employment growth is down, the area is still attracting health care, high tech, banking and sports-related industries.

▪ You still think of the mountains.

II.adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

better

▪ Sit yourself down, or better still go into the sitting-room.

▪ But perhaps the early evening was better still?

▪ Getting a cheap company loan, if available, is better still.

▪ It will be even better still.

very

▪ We kept very still inside and in the end we could hear them slowly going down the stairs and going away.

▪ It was very still, with the landscape painted in shades of smoke.

▪ The air was very still and drops of dew were poised in perfect globes on blades of grass and leaves.

▪ He was very still, as if he was weighing up what she'd said.

■ NOUN

air

▪ They twirled just fine in a breeze, but dropped like an arrow if released carefully in still air.

▪ The notes floated in the still air, strong and clear.

▪ Red maple seeds, on the other hand, twirled even when released in still air.

▪ The wind had dropped but the still air winced with frost.

▪ Smoke rose from several chimneys, straight blue columns in the still air, signs of habitation.

▪ The lights on the scaffolding shone, unwinking in the still air.

image

▪ This format uses an electronic camera that stores up to 50 still images on a tiny floppy disk.

▪ This, in turn, can move into still image work.

▪ Three still images to encapsulate the key moments in your story.

▪ They have created a still image showing work down the pit - but one child can't stop giggling.

▪ The questions which are asked about a still image tell us a great deal about the narrative interest in that image.

lifes

▪ Western popular prints and Soviet official art both displayed a penchant for landscapes, flower pieces, still lifes and genre.

▪ The fifty-two year old Berlin artist's work is characterised by highly unconventional still lifes.

▪ These apocalyptic still lifes emphasise more strongly than the earlier work Christa Dichgans' preoccupation with the psychic reality of objects.

▪ The Horta still lifes show the same combination of complexity and lucidity.

▪ Cowie, she insists, used the same rubber apple for batches of his still lifes.

▪ More important was the introduction of illusionistic nails into three still lifes of early 1910.

night

▪ It was a hot, still night, and I left the windows open.

▪ Then an agonising cry rent the still night.

▪ On either side of us stood two perfectly trimmed orange trees, their light citrus oils flavoring the still night air.

▪ Blue smoke trembled on the still night air.

▪ It was a still night and the tall trees stood silently against the stars.

water

▪ Bone samples in uniform temperature conditions Glacial varves Analysis of accumulation of annual layers accreted in still water.

▪ Soft light beginning to shimmer on the still water.

▪ In short, this plant needs nearly still water.

▪ I think of it more as a diving into still water.

▪ The floor was dark green and shiny like a sheet of still water, and everything else was white.

waters

▪ Lead me beside the still waters.

▪ Here the magnificent oaks and beeches are twice graced by their reflections in the still waters of the lake.

▪ He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.

▪ Beside the still waters of the Serpentine she lay down and slept.

▪ Once at the 1,000 Island Resort region, embark on a cruise aboard the lake's still waters.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

▪ a still pond

▪ a hot, still, airless day

▪ Anna looked out across the still waters of the lake.

▪ Everything was very still inside the little chapel. Nothing broke the silence.

▪ For once, the house was completely still.

▪ It was a long, hot, still September afternoon.

▪ Keep still while I tie your shoes.

▪ Percy was so thrilled he could hardly sit still.

▪ There was no wind and the trees were completely still.

▪ Would you like that still or sparkling, madam?

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

▪ It was another still island day and I could hear the sounds of a motorbike and chainsaw on the mainland.

▪ The memory was a series of still images, a film broken down to components.

III.noun

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

▪ I also have stills taken on the set as a movie was being made.

▪ There was Mark, who worked as assistant director, and did all the stills photography.

IV.verb