Object

• storm: He can walk on water, calm the storms ( natural ones!

• measure: The planned 20mph traffic calming measures in East Bankton Place will be carried out in February.

• fear: In light of these facts, attempts to calm public fears by simply denying the feasibility of molecular manufacturing will inevitably fail.

Converse of object

• stay: No matter what happens we want our fans to stay calm.

• remain: Trying to remain calm whilst slowly feeling I will go mad!

Preposition: after

• storm: The time between Christmas Eve and New Year can seem like a strange calm after a storm.

Adjective modifier

• monastic: In Andalucia, Moorish cloisters and monastic calm, a house with its own farm, out-of this-world views.

• eerie: The year I left Belfast, 1999, Drumcree passed off with an eerie calm.

• inner: It is an unique discipline to bring people into inner calm.

• relative: I decide to shelter in the relative calm of the British Council stand in case the scene turns ugly.

• flat: Monday 4 August Flat calm, warm & dry.

Modifies a noun

• demeanor: He believes his calm demeanor is a sign of the times.

• sea: Looking across the glassy calm sea at the mouth of Newhaven Harbor.

• oasis: The water area, with its bamboo, grasses and hostas, provides a cool calm oasis.

• exterior: What powers of sudden onslaught might not lie hidden within that calm exterior?

• atmosphere: This area typified the calm atmosphere which was apparent right across the whole school.

• weather: In calm weather the reserve must be a very nice dive indeed.

Followed by an intransitive particle

• down: More tomorrow, maybe I'll have calmed down by then.

Followed by a transitive particle

• down: She's a soldier just like you, calm down old boy.

Preposition: before

• storm: At half time it was 1-0 but this was but the calm before the storm.