According to Merriam-Webster, the definition for silence is:
"1: forbearance from speech or noise2: absence of sound or noise"No, it's Not. Silence is not a Sound. Silence is defined by the absence of sound. Sound is a vibration that typically propagates as an audible wave of pressure, through a transmission medium such as a gas, liquid or solid. There is no sound at all in outer space, since there is no medium that can sustain its propagation.
Well, not really. That's like saying bald is a hairstyle.
yes because if you know it's silent, you have to hear it
It depends on how edgy you wanna be. In a poetic sense, say things like "silence is the loudest sound" or "The silence spoke louder than words." It makes a perfect metaphor, but In a literal sense, silence is the opposite of sound, and true silence can only be found in a silence chamber or in a vacuum.
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What is silence for us, may it be readable for other species. Kindly note, as humans we can hear sounds with certain intensities. So, you can't say with confidence whether it is actually silence or not.
No. Silence is the abscence of sound.
Silence is the absence of ambient audible sound, the emission of sounds of such low intensity that they do not draw attention to themselves, or the state of having ceased to produce sounds; this latter sense can be extended to apply to the cessation or absence of any form of communication, whether through speech or
other medium.Sometimes speakers fall silent when they hesitate in searching for a word, or interrupt themselves before correcting themselves. Discourse analysis shows that people use brief silences to mark the boundaries of prosodic units, in turn-taking, or as reactive tokens, e.g., as a sign of displeasure, disagreement, embarrassment, desire to think, confusion, and the like. Relatively prolonged intervals of silence can be used in rituals; in some religious disciplines, people maintain silence for protracted periods, or even for the rest of their lives, as an ascetic means of spiritual transformation.
No, There is sound and then there’s silence , we would not know one without the other.
-John
In physics, sound is a vibration that propagates as an acoustic wave, through a transmission medium such as a gas, liquid or solid.
In human physiology and psychology, sound is the reception of such waves and their perception by the brain.Only acoustic waves that have frequencies lying between about 20 Hz and 20 kHz, the audio frequency range.
that means the sound can be silent but we absolutely don't know the silent is sound or not because human Only hear waves that have frequencies lying between about 20 Hz and 20 kHz and the silent can be in vacuum ( there is no wave) or some wave outside 20 Hz and 20 kHz frequencies
Amplitude is a measure of the size of sound waves. It depends on the amount of energy that started the waves. Greater amplitude waves have more energy and greater intensity, so they sound louder. As sound waves travel farther from their source, the more spread out their energy becomes.
A Vacume
Silence is most useful when broken.
Speech Whisper Shout Silence
there was an instant silence between the two of them.
The silence was deafening.
An oxymoron is a combination of contradictory or incongruous terms. "Eloquent silence" does not fit this definition as well as "deafening silence" does, because deafening is the exact opposite of silence; however, eloquent ishighly incongruant. Other common examples are "jumbo shrimp" and "bittersweet". A humorous example would be "military intelligence".
Oxymoron!
It would be an oxymoron.
Old Time Gospel Hour - 1956 The Deafening Silence of America's Pulpits was released on: USA: 6 June 1993
This is a common literary technique called bad writing. If everyone dropped their books at the same time, there would not be silence. As for the technical term, "deafening silence" is an oxymoron.
This is a common literary technique called bad writing. If everyone dropped their books at the same time, there would not be silence. As for the technical term, "deafening silence" is an oxymoron.
The word "deafening" is used maliciously (it is usually a loud noise that is deafening). Thus if something someone says is greeted with a "deafening silence" what has been said has NOT been liked by the people that it was said to. - they have not given ANY audible response.
trust to yourself!
This oxymoronic expression does not refer to silence in general, but to a particular, prominent silence, like when someone says the wrong thing at a party and everyone suddenly becomes quiet.
Hyperbole
As with many proverbs, the origin of this phrase is obscured by the mists of time. There are reports of versions of it dating back to Ancient Egypt. The first example of it in English is from the poet Thomas Carlyle, who translated the phrase from German in Sartor Resartus, 1831, in which a character expounds at length on the virtues of silence: