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Princeton's WordNet

  1. mute, deaf-mute, deaf-and-dumb personnoun

    a deaf person who is unable to speak

  2. muteadjective

    a device used to soften the tone of a musical instrument

  3. 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

  4. dumb, mute, silentverb

    unable to speak because of hereditary deafness

  5. muffle, mute, dull, damp, dampen, tone downverb

    deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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

  1. 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

  1. Muteverb

    to cast off; to molt

  2. Mute

    to eject the contents of the bowels; -- said of birds

  3. Mutenoun

    the dung of birds

  4. Muteadjective

    not speaking; uttering no sound; silent

  5. Muteadjective

    incapable of speaking; dumb

  6. 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

  7. Muteadjective

    not giving a ringing sound when struck; -- said of a metal

  8. Mutenoun

    one who does not speak, whether from physical inability, unwillingness, or other cause

  9. Mutenoun

    one who, from deafness, either congenital or from early life, is unable to use articulate language; a deaf-mute

  10. Mutenoun

    a person employed by undertakers at a funeral

  11. Mutenoun

    a person whose part in a play does not require him to speak

  12. Mutenoun

    among the Turks, an officer or attendant who is selected for his place because he can not speak

  13. 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

  14. 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

  15. Etymology: [L. mutare to change. See Molt.]

Wikidata

  1. 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

  1. 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.]

  2. Mute

    mūt, v.i. to dung, as birds. [O. Fr. mutir, esmeutir—Old Dut. smelten, to smelt.]

Suggested Resources

  1. MUTE

    What does MUTE stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the MUTE acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

  2. Mute

    Moot vs. Mute -- In this Grammar.com article you will learn the differences between the words Moot and Mute.

Entomology

  1. Mute

    silent: without power to produce audible sound.

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. 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.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of mute in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of mute in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of mute in a Sentence

  1. Ana Suda:

    He looked at me, and he asked me where I was born, so, I look at him, and I say, 'Are you serious?' He's like, 'I am very serious.'/* global CNN, Modernizr */'use strict';CNN.INJECTOR.executeFeature('video').then(function () {CNN.VideoPlayer.handleUnmutePlayer = function handleUnmutePlayer(containerId, dataObj) {'use strict';var playerInstance,playerPropertyObj,rememberTime,unmuteCTA,unmuteIdSelector = 'unmute_' + containerId,isPlayerMute;dataObj = dataObj || {};if (CNN.VideoPlayer.getLibraryName(containerId) === 'fave') {playerInstance = FAVE.player.getInstance(containerId) || null;} else {playerInstance = containerId }isPlayerMute = (typeof dataObj.muted === 'boolean') ? dataObj.muted : false;if (CNN.VideoPlayer.playerProperties }if (playerPropertyObj.mute playerInstance.unmute();if (unmuteCTA.length > 0) {unmuteCTA.removeClass('video__unmute--active').addClass('video__unmute--inactive');unmuteCTA.off('click');rememberTime = 0;if (rememberTime 0) {$vidEndSlate.find('.l-container').html('');$vidEndSlate.removeClass('video__end-slate--inactive').addClass('video__end-slate--active');}};CNN.autoPlayVideoExist = (CNN.autoPlayVideoExist === true) ? true : false;var configObj = {thumb: 'none',video: 'us/2018/05/22/border-patrol-speaking-spanish-panel-lemon-ctn-sot.cnn',width: '100%',height: '100%',section: 'domestic',profile: 'expansion',network: 'cnn',markupId: 'body-text_29',theoplayer: {allowNativeFullscreen: true},adsection: 'const-article-inpage',frameWidth: '100%',frameHeight: '100%',posterImageOverride: {.

  2. Mary Webb:

    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.

  3. Rameshh Shanegar:

    The couple who spoke against the worthless corona protocol in Delhi yesterday have real guts, rest of the people under brutality are spineless and mute spectators and those who are saying against those couple are morons.

  4. Maria Montessori:

    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.

  5. Allan Fromberg:

    There have been some complaints that the mute button or the off button were not functioning.

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