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Shrines
- noun - a place of worship hallowed by association with some sacred thing or person
- enclose in a shrine; "the saint's bones were enshrined in the cathedral"
Shrinks
- noun - a physician who specializes in psychiatry
- become smaller or draw together; "The fabric shrank"; "The balloon shrank"
- decrease in size, range, or extent; "His earnings shrank"; "My courage shrivelled when I saw the task before me"
- draw back, as with fear or pain; "she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf"
- reduce in size; reduce physically; "Hot water will shrink the sweater"; "Can you shrink this image?"
- wither, as with a loss of moisture; "The fruit dried and shriveled"
Shunned
- verb - avoid and stay away from deliberately; stay clear of
- expel from a community or group
SI Unit
- noun - a complete metric system of units of measurement for scientists; fundamental quantities are length (meter) and mass (kilogram) and time (second) and electric current (ampere) and temperature (kelvin) and amount of matter (mole) and luminous intensity (candela); "Today the United States is the only country in the world not totally committed to the Systeme International d'Unites"
Sidings
- noun - a short stretch of railroad track used to store rolling stock or enable trains on the same line to pass
- material applied to the outside of a building to make it weatherproof
Siennas
- noun - an earth color containing ferric oxides; used as a pigment
Silence
- noun - a refusal to speak when expected; "his silence about my contribution was surprising"
- cause to be quiet or not talk; "Please silence the children in the church!"
- keep from expression, for example by threats or pressure; "All dissenters were silenced when the dictator assumed power"
- the absence of sound;
- the state of being silent (as when no one is speaking); "there was a shocked silence"; "he gestured for silence"
- the trait of keeping things secret
Silenes
- noun - any plant of the genus Silene
Silents
- noun - a movie without a soundtrack
Silenus
- noun - any of the minor woodland deities who were companions of Dionysus (similar to the satyrs)
- the chief satyr in the service of Bacchus; father of Dionysus; usually depicted as drunk and jolly and riding a donkey