still vs the

still

adv
  • To an even greater degree. Used to modify comparative adjectives or adverbs. 

  • Without motion. 

  • Even, yet. 

  • Up to a time, as in the preceding time. 

  • Nevertheless. 

verb
  • To calm down, to quiet. 

  • To cause to fall by drops. 

  • To expel spirit from by heat, or to evaporate and condense in a refrigeratory; to distill. 

adj
  • Not effervescing; not sparkling. 

  • Having the same stated quality continuously from a past time 

  • Not moving; calm. 

  • Comparatively quiet or silent; soft; gentle; low. 

  • Uttering no sound; silent. 

noun
  • A large water boiler used to make tea and coffee. 

  • The area in a restaurant used to make tea and coffee, separate from the main kitchen. 

  • A device for distilling liquids. 

  • A period of calm or silence. 

  • A building where liquors are distilled; a distillery. 

  • A resident of the Falkland Islands. 

  • A photograph, as opposed to movie footage. 

the

adv
  • With a comparative or with more and a verb phrase, establishes a correlation with one or more other such comparatives. 

  • With a comparative, and often with for it, indicates a result more like said comparative. This can be negated with none. 

prep
  • For each; per. 

article
  • Introducing a singular term to be taken generically: preceding a name of something standing for a whole class. 

  • Used before an adjective, indicating all things (especially persons) described by that adjective. 

  • Used to indicate a certain example of (a noun) which is usually of most concern or most common or familiar. 

  • Added to a superlative or an ordinal number to make it into a substantive. 

  • Used before a body part (especially of someone previously mentioned), as an alternative to a possessive pronoun. 

  • When stressed, indicates that it describes an object which is considered to be best or exclusively worthy of attention. 

  • Definite grammatical article that implies necessarily that an entity it hints at is presupposed; something already mentioned, or completely specified later in that same sentence, or assumed already completely specified. 

  • Used before an object considered to be unique, or of which there is only one at a time. 

  • Used before a noun modified by a restrictive relative clause, indicating that the noun refers to a single referent defined by the relative clause. 

  • Used before a superlative or an ordinal number modifying a noun, to indicate that the noun refers to a single item. 

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