private vs silent

private

adj
  • Secretive; reserved. 

  • Not publicly known; not open; secret. 

  • Not shared with another patient. 

  • Not accessible by the public. 

  • Belonging to, concerning, or accessible only to an individual person or a specific group. 

  • Protected from view or disturbance by others; secluded. 

  • Accessible only to the class itself or instances of it, and not to other classes or even subclasses. 

  • Not traded by the public. 

  • Not in governmental office or employment. 

verb
  • To make something hidden from the public (without deleting it permanently). 

noun
  • A private lesson. 

  • The genitals. 

  • A soldier of the lowest rank in the army. 

  • A doctor working in privately rather than publicly funded health care. 

silent

adj
  • Hidden, unseen. 

  • With the sound turned off; usually on silent or in silent mode. 

  • Of an edit or change to a text, not explicitly acknowledged. 

  • Keeping at rest; inactive; calm; undisturbed. 

  • Not speaking; indisposed to talk; speechless; mute; taciturn; not loquacious; not talkative. 

  • Having no effect; not operating; inefficient. 

  • Free from sound or noise; absolutely still; perfectly quiet. 

  • Not implying significant modifications which would affect a peptide sequence. 

  • Of distilled spirit: having no flavour or odour. 

  • Not pronounced; having no sound; quiescent. 

  • Undiagnosed or undetected because of an absence of symptoms. 

  • Without audio capability. 

noun
  • A silent movie 

  • That which is silent; a time of silence. 

How often have the words private and silent occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )