Sentence examples for silent meaning from inspiring English sources

Pylkkänen, L. & McElree, B. An MEG study of silent meaning.

Some base substitutions are "silent," meaning that they result in a new codon that codes for the same amino acid as the wild type codon at that position or a codon that codes for a different amino acid that happens to have the same properties as those in the wild type.

Wut's push notifications are also silent, meaning the app won't interrupt you if you aren't looking at the screen.

They found that about half the DNA changes were "silent," meaning that these altered blueprints wouldn't change the nucleic acid building code for its corresponding protein or change its function.

An ancient Greek and Roman adage runs "The swans will sing when the jackdaws are silent", meaning that educated or wise people will speak only after the foolish have become quiet.

The agreement valued the new home at $390,000 and called on Ledebur to take a $163,500 mortgage, with the city making up the $226,500 difference with a "silent" second mortgage — "silent" meaning "on paper only," as the loan requires no payments and no money ever changes hands among the city, the bank or the developer.

The Commerzbank chief executive, Martin Blessing, said the government's aid would be in the form of "silent participation" — meaning there would be little dilution to shareholders' interest.

The EU decision was taken by ambassadors in Brussels on Friday and was subject to three days of what is known as a "silent procedure", meaning that it comes into force automatically if no one objects within three days.

Still, the actors are adept at filling even silent moments with meaning.

An article circulated in training courses explains that "each of the 10 Standard Orders are prefaced by the silent imperative 'YOU,' meaning the on-the-ground firefighters".

In the late nineties, Cohen spent five years living in the Mt. Baldy Zen Center, where he was named Jikan — a dharmic word meaning "silent one".