silence; being silent; quiet; reticence; inaction
grave; sad; mournful; sorrowful; pensive
to break the silence; to break one's silence
sending a ship to the bottom; sinking (a ship); to sink a ship
sinking; foundering; getting dead drunk; having too much fun (esp. in a red-light district, etc.) and missing work or neglecting one's duties; staying in one place for a long time
depressed in spirits; dispirited; disheartened; rejection
calm, cool, and collected; level and calm
calming down; quieting down
depression; low spirits; dejection
melancholy; gloom; depression
precipitation; deposition; settlement (e.g. of sediment)
settling or depositing (at the bottom of something); deposition; pigmentation; composure; calmness
contemplation; meditation
stillness; tranquility; tranquillity; dullness
floating and sinking; rise and fall; ebb and flow; ups and downs
being lost in deep thought
calm, cool, and collected; level and calm
sedimentation; subsidence; precipitation; sinking; settling; submerging
sinking into deep thought; sinking to the depths; contemplation
land subsidence; decline in influence
calm; composed; collected; silently (of the passing of the night); quietly
winter daphne (Daphne odora)
sediment; deposit; precipitate; sludge; lees
hum; meditation; painstaking elaboration on one's poem; groaning in distress
sinking into obscurity; being ruined
silent (esp. of the passing of the night); piercing (cold)
sedimentation (rate) of blood cells
being immersed in water; being drowned; being infatuated; being dazed; being blinded by
charms of a uniquely beautiful woman; (lit.) (so beautiful that) fish stay on the bottom of water and flying wild geese fall from the sky in shame
bridge designed to be underwater during a flood
gold-inlaid lacquerware (using powdered gold in etched grooves)
sediment; hypostatis; sludge
erythrocyte sedimentation rate; ESR
sedimentation; deposition
charms of a uniquely beautiful woman; (so beautiful that) fish stay on the bottom of water and flying wild geese fall from the sky in shame
precipitation tank; settling tank; sedimentation tank
decline of energy and vigour (vigor)
weight (of a fishing net); sinker (on a fishing line)
sinking of the South Korean navy ship Cheonan (allegedly by a North Korean torpedo; March 26, 2010)
deposit; sediment; sedimentation
submerged plant; submerged vegetation
erythrocyte sedimentation rate; ESR
deposition rate; deposition fraction
underwater tunnel construction by sinking prefabricated box culverts
submergent coastline; submerged coast; submerged shoreline
speech is silver, silence is golden
speech is silver, silence is golden
Deep Submergence Systems Project; DSSP
silent trade; dumb barter; depot trade
urinary sediment (e.g. in urinalysis)