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Mute

adj, noun, verb

Adjective

1
Not having the power of speech; dumb.
"Thus, while the mute Creation downward bend / Their sight, and to their Earthy Mother tend, / Man looks aloft; and with erected Eyes / Beholds his own hereditary Skies. / From ſuch rude Principles our Form began; / And Earth was Metamorphos'd into Man."
2
Silent; not making a sound.
"He ask’d, but all the Heav’nly Quire ſtood mute, / And ſilence was in Heav’n: […]"
3
Not uttered; unpronounced; silent; also, produced by complete closure of the mouth organs which interrupt the passage of breath; said of certain letters.
4
Not giving a ringing sound when struck; said of a metal.

Adjective

Noun

1
A stopped consonant; a stop. obsolete
2
The faeces of a hawk or falcon.
"On which was written not in words, But hieroglyphic mute of birds"
3
a device used to soften the tone of a musical instrument wordnet
4
An actor who does not speak; a mime performer. obsolete
"As for the poor honest Maid, whom all the Story is built upon, and who ought to be one of the principal Actors in the Play, she is commonly a Mute in it:"
5
a deaf person who is unable to speak wordnet

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6
A person who does not have the power of speech.
"The girl left, and presently returned, followed by two male mutes, to whom the Queen made another sign."
7
A hired mourner at a funeral; an undertaker's assistant.
"He asked about the undertaking business, and how many mutes went down with Lady Estrich’s remains […]"
8
An object for dulling the sound of an instrument, especially a brass instrument, or damper for pianoforte; a sordine.
9
An electronic switch or control that mutes the sound.
"Another related primary control is called a mute, which is simply a switch that kills the signal altogether, allowing for a speedier turn-off than turning the fader all the way down rapidly. Mutes are probably more commonly used during multitrack music recording than during film mixing because in music all tracks are on practically all of the time, whereas workstations produce silence when there is no desired signal […]"
10
A mute swan.
"The trumpeters' fate seems likely to get tangled with that of the mute swan. Currently there's enough habitat for both species, but that may change if trumpeters flourish and mutes aren't controlled. Right now mutes are thriving."
11
An action of muting, especially in a discussion forum as a penalty for breaking rules. Internet

Verb

1
To silence, to make quiet. transitive
2
Of a bird: to defecate. archaic
"I Mute as a hauke dothe whan ſhe hath endued her gorge."
3
To cast off; to moult. transitive
"Have I muted all my feathers?"
4
deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping wordnet
5
To turn off the sound of. transitive
"Please mute the music while I make a call."

Etymology 1

From Middle English muet, from Anglo-Norman muet, moet, Middle French muet, from mu (“dumb, mute”) + -et, remodelled after Latin mūtus.

Etymology 2

From Middle English muet, from Anglo-Norman muet, moet, Middle French muet, from mu (“dumb, mute”) + -et, remodelled after Latin mūtus.

Etymology 3

From Middle English muet, from Anglo-Norman muet, moet, Middle French muet, from mu (“dumb, mute”) + -et, remodelled after Latin mūtus.

Etymology 4

From Middle French muetir, probably a shortened form of esmeutir, ultimately from Proto-Germanic.

Etymology 5

From Middle French muetir, probably a shortened form of esmeutir, ultimately from Proto-Germanic.

Etymology 6

From Latin mutare (“to change”).

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