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static as in:  in a static state

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  • The web site is pretty static. Once you've seen it, there's not much reason to return.†
  • He was raised in a static village community where most people farmed in the same manner as their grandparents.†
    static = not changing
  • The top ten rankings had been static for several days now.  (source)
    static = unchanging
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  • But environments are never static for long.  (source)
    static = unchanging
  • In the octave, she creates a static picture of two lovers on the verge of an event.  (source)
    static = not moving or not changing
  • ...what could emergency technicians do, people trained to leap on chests and pound at static hearts?  (source)
    static = not moving (not pumping or beating)
  • Mark tried to say that no village, no culture, can remain static.  (source)
    static = not changing
  • Everyone had theories, of course, but the Jade Key still remained unfound, and top rankings on the Scoreboard remained static.  (source)
    static = unchanging
  • It was true, his father said, that in a relatively static environment the pace of evolution should decelerate, as individual species have little new to adapt to.  (source)
  • Because it's not love to be static like the desert, nor is it love to roam the world like the wind.  (source)
    static = not moving
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common meaning

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  • Grant turned on the television but got only static.  (source)
    static = a random dot pixel pattern displayed when no transmission signal is received
  • I heard a brief screech of static on the comm channel.  (source)
    static = an unpleasant crackling or hissing sound of electrical interference
  • We're gonna see him and if you give me any static you'll end up on your own operatin' table.  (source)
    static = trouble
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  • A burp of static on the radio made it hard to hear the boy's last name.  (source)
    static = unwanted noise
  • As she turned them, the pages were noisy, like static around the written story.  (source)
  • The afternoon sky looked peculiar, tinged with yellow, and there was so much static in the air that the babies' soft hair stuck out.  (source)
    static = electrical charge
  • During the day I heard them tunneling through the walls of my bedroom, sounding like a radio tuned to static in the next room, and I imagined them in there turning the walls into honeycombs, with honey seeping out for me to taste.  (source)
    static = sound of electrical interference
  • The television shows gray static, and the speakers hiss.  (source)
    static = a random dot pixel pattern displayed when no transmission signal is received
  • It made strange noises, not static but a combination of shrieking and wailing.  (source)
    static = an unpleasant crackling or hissing sound of electrical interference
  • Louie had mentioned other servicemen who were with him, but the names had been obscured by static, and the transcript hadn't conveyed them with certainty.  (source)
  • There was a static-filled silence.  (source)
    static = sound of electrical interference
  • She screams, but her voice is robotic and distorted, as if filtered through radio static.†  (source)
  • There's a small burst of static and then nothing more.†  (source)
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