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Sillingy
Sillingy, a commune in Haute-Savoie, France, west of Annecy in the Communauté de Communes Fier & Usses; known for the Miroir de Faille fault mirror (~2,000 m²), the Roman-era Bains de Bromines, and the Château des Fées site on the Mandallaz.
Sillunu Oru Kaadhal (சில்லுனு ஒரு காதல்)
Sillunu Oru Kaadhal (சில்லுனு ஒரு காதல்), also known as Nuvvu Nenu Prema in Telugu, is a 2006 Tamil romantic drama directed by Obeli N. Krishna, starring Suriya, Jyothika, and Bhoomika Chawla, with an A. R. Rahman soundtrack including "Munbe Vaa".
Silly
Silly is a German rock band formed in East Berlin in 1978, fronted from the early 1980s by singer Tamara Danz and among the leading rock bands of the GDR.
Silly Putty
Silly Putty is a silicone toy putty that bounces and shatters under sudden force but flows like a liquid, invented in 1943 and sold as a toy from 1950.
Silly season
Silly season: the summer period, especially in Britain, when Parliament's recess leaves newspapers filling pages with trivial stories; also US political campaign absurdity; first recorded in the 1860s.
Silly String
Silly String, also called party string or crazy string, is a trademarked aerosol toy spraying plastic-foam string, invented accidentally in 1969 by Leonard Fish and Robert P. Cox as a spray-on bandage and sold by Wham-O from 1972; also used by troops to detect trip wires.
Silly Symphony
Silly Symphony, Disney's music-driven cartoon series (1929–1939, 75 shorts begun with The Skeleton Dance), served as the studio's experimental ground for Technicolor, the multiplane camera, and seven Oscar-winning cartoons.
Sillyon
Sillyon (Syllion), ancient Pamphylian city on a 235 m hill in Serik, Antalya, Turkey; identified with Hittite Šalluša; resisted Alexander the Great in 334 BC, minted its own coins, later a Byzantine bishopric and Karahisar-ı Teke fortress; excavated since 2020.
Silmido (실미도)
Silmido (실미도) is a 2003 South Korean film directed by Kang Woo-suk about Unit 684, trained on Silmido island to assassinate Kim Il-sung. First Korean film past 10 million admissions; later subject of defamation suits and 2026 caption revisions.
Silo
A silo, also called a grain silo, is a structure for storing bulk materials such as grain, silage, cement, and sand, in agriculture and industry.
Silo (series)
Silo is an American post-apocalyptic science fiction series on Apple TV+, created by Graham Yost and directed by Morten Tyldum, featuring Rebecca Ferguson in a mile-deep underground silo.
Silo (TV series)
Silo is an Apple TV+ dystopian sci-fi drama created by Graham Yost, based on Hugh Howey's Wool trilogy, starring Rebecca Ferguson as engineer Juliette Nichols in a 144-story underground silo; it ran 2023-2026 with a final season due July 9, 2027.
Siloam Inscription
The Siloam Inscription, also called the Siloam tunnel inscription or Shiloah Inscription, is a six-line Hebrew inscription in Hezekiah's Tunnel, Jerusalem, commemorating the tunnel's completion around 700 BC and now held in Istanbul.
Siloam tunnel
The Siloam tunnel, also called Hezekiah's tunnel, is a 533-meter rock-cut water tunnel in ancient Jerusalem, connecting the Gihon Spring to the Pool of Siloam.
Silodosin
Silodosin (Urief, Rapaflo, Silodyx) is a selective alpha-1A adrenergic receptor antagonist approved for BPH/LUTS, launched in Japan 2006 and FDA-approved 2008; main side effect is abnormal ejaculation, and it outperforms tamsulosin for ureteral stone expulsion.
Silog
Silog is a class of Filipino breakfast plates of sinangag (garlic fried rice) and itlog (egg) plus a named protein, such as tapsilog (beef tapa), longsilog (longganisa), tocilog, or bangsilog; coined in the 1980s around Vivian Del Rosario's tapsilog.
Silos (Starset album)
SILOS is the fifth studio album by Starset, released September 12, 2025 on Fearless Records: 16 tracks, about 57 minutes, built from eight 2024–2025 singles and two covers, originally conceived as an EP.
Silovik
Silovik (силови́к; plural siloviki, "people of force"): a current or former Russian security, military, or law-enforcement official in politics or business; under Putin they dominate the state, an estimated 77 percent of government in 2019.
Siloxane
A siloxane is a compound containing a chain or ring of alternating silicon and oxygen atoms with organic substituents on silicon; polymerized siloxanes are the silicones.
Siloxane removal
Siloxane removal is the elimination of volatile methyl siloxanes from biogas, landfill gas, and digester gas before burning, since combustion forms abrasive silicon dioxide that damages engines.
Silpa Bhirasri
Silpa Bhirasri (ศิลป์ พีระศรี), born Corrado Feroci, was an Italian-born sculptor who served Thailand from 1924, founded Silpakorn University, and created Bangkok's Democracy and Victory Monuments.
Silphium
Silphium (Greek σίλφιον), also called laser, was a spice-and-medicine umbellifer of ancient Cyrenaica, Libya, first recorded human-driven extinction. Candidates include Ferula drudeana; contraceptive claims are contested.
Silpium Mons
Silpium Mons is a 114.5-km-wide mountain on Jupiter's volcanic moon Io, centered at 52.6°S, 272.4°W, IAU-approved in 1979 and named for the Greek legendary place where Io dies of grief.
Silsila (1981 film)
Silsila (सिलसिला, The Affair) is Yash Chopra's 1981 Yash Raj Films Hindi romantic drama about an extra-marital affair, starring Amitabh Bachchan, Jaya Bachchan, Rekha, Shashi Kapoor, and Sanjeev Kumar, with music by Shiv-Hari; a box-office disappointment now considered a landmark casting.
Silsila Badalte Rishton Ka (सिलसिला बदलते रिश्तों का)
Silsila Badalte Rishton Ka (सिलसिला बदलते रिश्तों का), a Colors TV Hindi drama (2018–2019) by Sphere Origins, stars Drashti Dhami, Shakti Arora, and Aditi Sharma in a love-triangle story about an extra-marital affair; season 2 moved to Voot.
Silt
Silt is granular material with particle sizes between sand and clay, typically 0.004 to 0.0625 mm in the Wentworth scale, forming fertile silt loams and wind-deposited loess such as China's Loess Plateau.
Siltartoxatug
Siltartoxatug (TNM002, Sintetol, 新替妥) is the first recombinant human IgG1 monoclonal antibody against tetanus toxin, approved in China in February 2025 for emergency tetanus prophylaxis in adults, outperforming HTIG in phase 3 trials.
Silthiofam
Silthiofam (MON65500, Latitude) is a silylamide (FRAC C7) fungicide seed treatment specific to the wheat take-all fungus Gaeumannomyces graminis var. tritici; EU-approved 2018-2033 under Regulation 2018/710.
Siltronic
Siltronic AG is a German manufacturer of silicon wafers, the hyperpure crystalline discs on which memory chips, microprocessors, and power semiconductors are built, with production in Asia, Germany, and the United States.
Siltstone
Siltstone is a clastic sedimentary rock made predominantly of silt-sized grains, defined by the USGS as indurated silt with the texture of shale but lacking its fine lamination or fissility, and finer than sandstone.