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mute
  1. (phonetics) A stopped consonant; a stop. [from 16th c.]
  2. (obsolete, theater) An actor who does not speak; a mime performer. [16th-19th c.]
  3. A person who does not have the power of speech. [from 17th c.]
  4. A hired mourner at a funeral; an undertaker's assistant. [from 18th c.]
  5. (music) An object for dulling the sound of an instrument, especially a brass instrument, or damper for pianoforte; a sordine. [from 18th c.]
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  7. Examples:
    1. “Our main focus is on the acoustical modeling of the straight mute for the French horn and the cup mute for the trumpet.”
muting
  1. The dung of birds.
  2. The process by which something is muted or silenced.
mute
  1. The faeces of a hawk or falcon.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Our main focus is on the acoustical modeling of the straight mute for the French horn and the cup mute for the trumpet.”
muter
  1. Something that mutes sound.
  2. Examples:
    1. “It troubled many more than King, but the members of the corps were muter than oysters.”
      “Never did muter silence fall upon a talking group, than the sight of this matchless chapel brought on us.”
      “It is an argument supported by Professor Heini Muter, who is prorector of Zurich University and responsible for medicine and natural sciences.”
muteness
  1. The characteristic of being mute.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “My unusual muteness must have made him wonder if I was having second thoughts.”
      “Because we are all Canadians, and therefore painfully polite, he mistakes our bemused muteness for rapt attention.”
      “This muteness is unsettling, somehow pregnant with infinite meaning and utterly devoid of any at all.”
mutenesses
mutings
  1. plural of muting
muters
  1. plural of muter
mutes
  1. plural of mute
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  3. Examples:
    1. “There is also an extensive use of mutes, including staggered transitions from muted to unmuted and vice versa, like a cross-fade in recording.”
      “The reduced attention to politics mutes the most important way in which individual human agency drives human experience.”
      “He is the fountainhead of patronage, which mutes any criticism from his parliamentary caucus.”
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