stilling
present participle ofstill
still
verb[T]
uk/stɪl/us/stɪl/to make somethingstopmovingorbecomemorecalm:
Hetriedto still theswayingof thehammock.
literaryShecuddledherbabyto stillitscries.
Staying and remaining
- closeted
- halt
- hang
- hold
- holdsomethingover
- hung
- non-tenured
- outstay
- overstay
- overwinter
- remain
- rest
- spot
- stand
- stay putidiom
- stick
- stick around
- stop in
- tarry
- tenured
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Calming and relaxing
Examplesofstilling
stilling
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
Thestillingsection of the wind tunnel is divided into two independent sections by a splitter plate.
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Communication of the unsteady pressures to thestillingchamber was noted.
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The upstreamstillingtank contained a perforated plate followed by a screen and open-cell sponge section, and a smooth two-dimensional contraction a t the outlet.
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Some show brief lapses in awareness and orientation by freezing orstilling, for example.
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Discharge was controlled independently of the swirl vanes with a motoroperated cone valve at the upstream end of thestillingchamber.
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At each end of the test section there was a largestillingtank to isolate the test section from any hydrodynamic disturbances in the flow loop.
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The structures have included intakes, sluices, spillways andstillingbasins.
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However, one word calls out to me from page after page of the report,stillingthose voices of passion.
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The weir separating thestillingbasin from the desilting basin is small and nearly covered by sediment and vegetation.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The steep chute is followed by astillingbasin before rejoinging the naturel river course.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.There is however no information whether the damage occurred on the steep chute or in thestillingbasin.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Thestillingpool overflows into a tunnel which leads under the road.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The floodway, long and wide, includes astillingbasin, an approach channel, an outlet channel, and two guide levees.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.One example of an energy dissipating use is a hydraulic jumpstillingbasin.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Thestillingbasin can store up to 204,000 m of water and its main purpose is to regulate the water level downstream.
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