Static
['stætɪk]
Definition
(noun.) angry criticism; 'they will probably give you a lot of static about your editorial'.
(noun.) a crackling or hissing noise caused by electrical interference.
(adj.) showing little if any change; 'a static population' .
Editor: Murdoch--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Alt. of Statical
Typist: Steven
Definition
adj. pertaining to statics: pertaining to bodies at rest or in equilibrium: resting: acting by mere weight.—adv. Stat′ically.—n. Stat′ics the science which treats of the action of force in maintaining rest or preventing change of motion.
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Examples
- When the science of static electricity was thus far developed, with a machine for generating it and a collector to receive it, many experiments followed. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Hence education would soon reach a static limit in each class, for only diversity makes change and progress. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- This static, cold-storage ideal of knowledge is inimical to educative development. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Although his educational philosophy was revolutionary, it was none the less in bondage to static ideals. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- They have no practice in selecting what is appropriate, and no criterion to go by; everything is on the same dead static level. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Unless I set my will, unless I absolve myself from the rhythm of life, fix myself and remain static, cut off from living, absolved within my own will. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The essential point is that isolation makes for rigidity and formal institutionalizing of life, for static and selfish ideals within the group. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Only her indomitable will remained static and mechanical, she sat at the table making her musing, stray remarks. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Their thinking, in short, is perfectly static and literally superficial. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Yet, feeling static and inevitable, she was kind towards him. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Gudrun and he were in perfect static unity this morning, but unseeing and unwitting. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- A changing country has managed to live in spite of a static government machine. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- She had a true static impressiveness, she was a social artist in some ways. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- In the Universities political movements are generally regarded as essentially static, cut and dried solids to be judged by their logical consistency. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- She wanted at this instant to have done with the snow-world, the terrible, static ice-built mountain tops. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
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