What does muté mean?
Definitions for muté
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Princeton's WordNet
mute, deaf-mute, deaf-and-dumb personnoun
a deaf person who is unable to speak
muteadjective
a device used to soften the tone of a musical instrument
mute, tongueless, unspoken, wordlessadjective
expressed without speech
"a mute appeal"; "a silent curse"; "best grief is tongueless"- Emily Dickinson; "the words stopped at her lips unsounded"; "unspoken grief"; "choking exasperation and wordless shame"- Thomas Wolfe
dumb, mute, silentverb
unable to speak because of hereditary deafness
muffle, mute, dull, damp, dampen, tone downverb
deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
MUTEadjective
Etymology: muet, French; mutus, Latin.
Why did he reason in my soul implant,
And speech, th’ effect of reason? To the mute
My speech is lost; my reason to the brute. Dryden.Mute solemn sorrow, free from female noise,
Such as the majesty of grief destroys. Dryden.Say she be mute, and will not speak a word,
Then I’ll commend her volubility. William Shakespeare.All sat mute,
Pondering the danger with deep thoughts. John Milton.All the heav’nly choir stood mute,
And silence was in heav’n. John Milton, Paradise Lost, b. iii.The whole perplex’d ignoble crowd,
Mute to my questions, in my praises loud,
Echo’d the word. Matthew Prior.Mutenoun
Either our history shall with full mouth
Speak freely of our acts; or else our grave,
Like Turkish mute, shall have a tongueless mouth. William Shakespeare.Your mute I’ll be;
When my tongue blabs, then let mine eyes not see. William Shakespeare.He that never hears a word spoken, no wonder if he remain speechless; as one must do, who from an infant should be bred up amongst mute, and have no teaching. William Holder.
Let the figures, to which art cannot give a voice, imitate the mutes in their actions. John Dryden, Dufresnoy.
Grammarians note the easy pronunciation of a mute before a liquid, which doth not therefore necessarily make the preceding vowel long. William Holder, Elements of Speech.
To Muteverb
To dung as birds.
Etymology: mutir, French.
Mine eyes being open, the sparrows muted warm dung into mine eyes. Tob. ii. 10.
I could not fright the crows,
Or the least bird from muting on my head. Ben Jonson.The bird not able to digest the fruit, from her inconverted muting ariseth this plant. Thomas Browne, Vulgar Errours.
ChatGPT
mute
A mute refers to an individual who is incapable of speech due to a congenital deafness or an acquired disease. Also, it can be used as a verb meaning to silence or suppress sound. Additionally, in the context of musical instruments, a mute is a device used to modify the tone or volume.
Webster Dictionary
Muteverb
to cast off; to molt
Mute
to eject the contents of the bowels; -- said of birds
Mutenoun
the dung of birds
Muteadjective
not speaking; uttering no sound; silent
Muteadjective
incapable of speaking; dumb
Muteadjective
not uttered; unpronounced; silent; also, produced by complete closure of the mouth organs which interrupt the passage of breath; -- said of certain letters. See 5th Mute, 2
Muteadjective
not giving a ringing sound when struck; -- said of a metal
Mutenoun
one who does not speak, whether from physical inability, unwillingness, or other cause
Mutenoun
one who, from deafness, either congenital or from early life, is unable to use articulate language; a deaf-mute
Mutenoun
a person employed by undertakers at a funeral
Mutenoun
a person whose part in a play does not require him to speak
Mutenoun
among the Turks, an officer or attendant who is selected for his place because he can not speak
Mutenoun
a letter which represents no sound; a silent letter; also, a close articulation; an element of speech formed by a position of the mouth organs which stops the passage of the breath; as, p, b, d, k, t
Mutenoun
a little utensil made of brass, ivory, or other material, so formed that it can be fixed in an erect position on the bridge of a violin, or similar instrument, in order to deaden or soften the tone
Etymology: [L. mutare to change. See Molt.]
Wikidata
MUTE
The MUTE Network is an unmaintained peer-to-peer file sharing network developed with anonymity in mind. The MUTE client is open source software released under the Public domain and includes support for the Linux, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows computer operating systems.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Mute
mūt, adj. incapable of speaking: dumb: silent: unpronounced.—n. one dumb, or remaining silent: a person stationed by undertakers at the door of a house at a funeral: a stopped sound, formed by the shutting of the mouth-organs, esp. the surds t, p, k, but also applied to the sonant or voiced consonants d, b, g, and even the nasals n, m, ng: (law) one who refuses to plead.—v.t. to deaden sound.—adv. Mute′ly.—n. Mute′ness. [Fr.,—L. mutus.]
Mute
mūt, v.i. to dung, as birds. [O. Fr. mutir, esmeutir—Old Dut. smelten, to smelt.]
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MUTE
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Mute
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Entomology
Mute
silent: without power to produce audible sound.
Surnames Frequency by Census Records
MUTE
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Mute is ranked #156044 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Mute surname appeared 104 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Mute.
77.8% or 81 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
11.5% or 12 total occurrences were White.
4.8% or 5 total occurrences were Black.
4.8% or 5 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
Anagrams for muté »
tume
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of muté in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of muté in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
Examples of muté in a Sentence
I told them to stay as quiet as possible and mute their phones, to send their locations and phone numbers.
Law stands mute in the midst of arms.
Discipline must come through liberty. . . . We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a paralytic. He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined.
Most history is a record of triumphs, disasters, and follies of top people. The black hole in it is the way of life of mute, inglorious men and women who made no nuisance of themselves in the world.
The past is only the present become invisible and mute and because it is invisible and mute, its memoried glances and it's murmurs are infinitely precious. We are tomorrow's past.
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- أخرس, أبكمArabic
- нямы́Belarusian
- глухоням, нямBulgarian
- muda, mutCatalan, Valencian
- němýCzech
- umælende, stumDanish
- Stumme, stumm, stillGerman
- callar, mudo, desactivar, apagar, enmudecerSpanish
- mutuBasque
- لال, گنگ, بیصداPersian
- hiljentää, mykistää, mykkä, vaientaa, äänetönFinnish
- silencieux, muette, mutique, muet, assourdi, sourdine, silencieuse, taireFrench
- balbhán, balbhIrish
- balbhan, balbh, balbhagScottish Gaelic
- mudoGalician
- मूक, गूंगाHindi
- némaHungarian
- լալ, համրArmenian
- sordina, muto, sordinoItalian
- 口の利けない, 黙々, 唖Japanese
- 벙어리Korean
- kirr, mit, lal, bêdeng, bêpêjnKurdish
- infans, mūtusLatin
- stommLuxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- mēmsLatvian
- немMacedonian
- gedempt, stil, stom, stomme, dempenDutch
- dritt, sordin, skitt, stum, stilleNorwegian
- mutOccitan
- niemy, milczącyPolish
- mudoPortuguese
- amuQuechua
- mutRomanian
- немо́й, безмо́лвный, бесслове́сныйRussian
- mudu, mutuSardinian
- mȕtav, му̏тав, nȇm, не̑м, није̑м, nijȇmSerbo-Croatian
- nemý, nehovoriaciSlovak
- nemSlovene
- tysta, sordin, stänga av, stum, tystSwedish
- మ్యూట్Telugu
- гунг, лолTajik
- dilsizTurkish
- німи́йUkrainian
- người câm, thầm lặngVietnamese
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