- a photograph of a scene from a film or video
- a publicity still from his new movie
- The police studied the stills from the security video.
- a piece of equipment that is used for making strong alcoholic drinks
- a whisky still
Word Originnoun sense 1 Old English stille (adjective and adverb), stillan (verb), of West Germanic origin, from a base meaning ‘be fixed, stand’. noun sense 2 mid 16th cent.: from the rare verb still ‘extract by distillation’, shortening of distil.
Idioms
See still in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarythe still of the night
- (literary) the time during the night when it is quiet and calm
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