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# silently

«silently» in Mova's school dictionary: **Without making any sound; quietly** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adverb (silently)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Without making any sound; quietly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/silently/#m1)

2) Without speaking. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/silently/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In school, «read silently» means read in your head, not aloud; in fire drills you line up silently so you can hear instructions. In stories, characters creep silently to surprise someone, and animals like owls hunt silently. Phrases: «read silently», «move silently», «silently agree», «sit silently».

### examples

- Please read silently for ten minutes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/silently/#x1)
- The owl flew silently through the night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/silently/#x2)
- We lined up silently for the fire drill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/silently/#x3)
- The cat crept silently towards the bird. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/silently/#x4)
- She silently counted to ten to calm down. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/silently/#x5)
- The snow fell silently all night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/silently/#x6)
- He nodded silently. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/silently/#x7)
- The class worked silently on the test. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/silently/#x8)
- But she shook her head silently. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/silently/#x9)

### note

Adjective: «silent»; noun: «silence». A «silent letter» is a letter you write but don't say, like the k in «knee» or the b in «doubt».

### In the corpora

- [Fluent readers still use phonics, fast and silently, and slow down to it when they meet a hard new word.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/1-sounds-and-letters-how-phonics-starts/25/)
- [Alliteration is the same first sound repeated in words close together: "big brown bear", "slithering snakes slide silently".](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/46-poetry-simile-metaphor-personification-alliteration/9/)
- [A girl in Leeds did not introduce her friend to her nan; her friend felt left out and sat silently all afternoon.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/125-greetings-and-introductions/17/)
- [LORD, in trouble have they sought Thee, silently they poured out a prayer when Thy chastening was upon them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.538/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «silently» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/silently/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.