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Traditional English :: mute
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mute - adj., n., & v. --adj. 1 silent, refraining from or temporarily bereft of speech.
2 not emitting articulate sound.
3 (of a person or animal) dumb.
4 not expressed in speech (mute protest).
5 a (of a letter) not pronounced. b (of a consonant) plosive.
6 (of hounds) not giving tongue. --n. 1 a dumb person (a deaf mute).
2 Mus. a a clamp for damping the resonance of the strings of a violin etc. b a pad or cone for damping the sound of a wind instrument.
3 an unsounded consonant.
4 an actor whose part is in a dumb show.
5 a dumb servant in oriental countries.
6 a hired mourner. --v.tr.
1 deaden, muffle, or soften the sound of (a thing, esp. a musical instrument).
2 a tone down, make less intense. b (as muted adj.) (of colours etc.) subdued (a muted green). mute button a device on a telephone etc. to temporarily prevent the caller from hearing what is being said at the receiver's end. mute swan the common white swan. mutely adv. muteness n. [ME f. OF muet, dimin. of mu f. L mutus, assim. to L] |
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Related Words
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deaf
lyric
talk
show
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file
sharing
swan
print
flash
button
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child
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host
banjo
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oder
palm
song
odor
bass
tab
talks
bag
trumpet
shoes
p2p
ip
incubis
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tv
cell
phone
net
picture
swans
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ill
made
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Most Often Usage
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deaf mute
lyric to talk show on mute by incubus
incubus talk show on mute lyric
incubus talk show on mute
show on mute
mute file sharing
mute swan
mute print
flash mute button
guitar mute
mute child
talk show on mute video
talk show host on mute
incubus talk show in mute
banjo mute
download incubus mute on show talk
oder mute
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