silent vs tongue-tied

silent

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

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

  • Hidden, unseen. 

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

  • Keeping at rest; inactive; calm; undisturbed. 

  • 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. 

tongue-tied

adj
  • Prevented from or unable to express oneself clearly or fluently, or freely; at a loss for words, speechless. 

  • Reluctant to speak up; reserved, reticent. 

  • Having tongue-tie or ankyloglossia (“a congenital oral anomaly in which the lingual frenulum (a membrane connecting the underside of the tongue to the floor of the mouth) is unusually short and thick, decreasing mobility of the tongue and affecting eating, speech, etc.”). 

  • Physically unable to speak; dumb, mute. 

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