still

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still1

▶adjective

• 1 not moving.

  ■ (of air or water) undisturbed by wind, sound, or current.

• 2 Brit. (of a drink) not effervescent.

▶noun

• 1 a state of deep and quiet calm: the still of the night.

• 2 a photograph or a single shot from a cinema film.

▶adverb

• 1 even now or at a particular time: it was still raining.

• 2 nevertheless.

• 3 even (used with comparatives for emphasis): better still.

▶verb make or become still.

– derivatives
stillness noun.

– origin OE stille (adj. and adv.), stillan (v.), of W. Gmc origin, from a base meaning ‘be fixed, stand’.

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still2

▶noun an apparatus for distilling alcoholic drinks such as whisky.

– origin C16: from the rare verb still ‘extract by distillation’, shortening of distil.