mute
Part of speech: adj
noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
human-sciences
lifestyle
linguistics
music
phonetics
phonology
sciences
theater
Etymology: From Middle English muet, from Anglo-Norman muet, moet, Middle French muet, from mu (“dumb, mute”) + -et, remodelled after Latin mūtus.
Inflected forms:
form: muter
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: mutest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: mutes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mutes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: muting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: muted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: muted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Not having the power of speech; dumb.
pos: adj
examples: 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.
gloss: Silent; not making a sound.
pos: adj
examples: He ask’d, but all the Heav’nly Quire ſtood mute, / And ſilence was in Heav’n: […]
[…] The heathens have broken into Thy Temple, and Thou art silent! Esau mocks Thy Children, and Thou remainest mute! Show thyself, arise, and let Thy Voice resound, Thou mutest among all the mute!
gloss: Not uttered; unpronounced; silent; also, produced by complete closure of the mouth organs which interrupt the passage of breath; said of certain letters.
pos: adj
gloss: Not giving a ringing sound when struck; said of a metal.
pos: adj
gloss: A stopped consonant; a stop.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: An actor who does not speak; a mime performer.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: 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:
gloss: A person who does not have the power of speech.
pos: noun
examples: The girl left, and presently returned, followed by two male mutes, to whom the Queen made another sign.
gloss: A hired mourner at a funeral; an undertaker's assistant.
pos: noun
examples: He asked about the undertaking business, and how many mutes went down with Lady Estrich’s remains […]
The little box was eventually carried in one hand by the leading mute, while his colleague, with a finger placed on the lid, to prevent it from swaying, walked to one side and a little to the rear.
Then followed a long silence during which the mute turned to them and said, ‘Of course you'll be wanting an urn, sir?’
gloss: An object for dulling the sound of an instrument, especially a brass instrument, or damper for pianoforte; a sordine.
pos: noun
gloss: An electronic switch or control that mutes the sound.
pos: noun
examples: 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 […]
gloss: A mute swan.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: An action of muting, especially in a discussion forum as a penalty for breaking rules.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
gloss: To silence, to make quiet.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To turn off the sound of.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Please mute the music while I make a call.
Synonyms: aphonic
aphonous
dumb
dumb as a post
mumchance
mute
tongueless
unspeaking
voiceless
Antonyms: audible
nonmute
talkative
vocal
voiced
Related words: inarticulate
inaudible
semimute
silence
make silent
dumb
Derived words: deaf-mute
I'm mute
mute as a mouse
mute cornett
mute e
mute h
mutely
muteness
mute of malice
mute point
mute swan
mutism
mutist
mutistic
nonmute
palm mute
selectively mute
semimute
mute cancel
mute list
plunger mute
muteable
muter
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