Mute

Adjective

 * 1) Silent; not making a sound.
 * 2) * 1956, Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins (?, translators), Lion Feuchtwanger (German author), Raquel: The Jewess of Toledo (translation of Die Jüdin von Toledo), Messner, page 178:
 * “ 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!”
 * 1)  Not having the power of speech.

Noun

 * 1) A person who does not have the power of speech.
 * 2) An acting part where no speaking (and in opera, no singing) is required.
 * 3)  An object for dulling the sound of an instrument, especially a brass instrument, or damper for pianoforte; a sordine.
 * 4) One refusing to speak.
 * 5) An undertaker's assistant.
 * 6) The deadening of an appliance's or musical instrument's volume.
 * 7) In falconry, a mute is a hawk's or falcon's droppings, particularly more solid ones which fall down. (See slice.)
 * 8) In wine making, mute, from the French, is the grape juice from pressed grapes kept aside in chilled stainless steel tanks and used at later stages of wine making by adding to the dry wine base to achieve the desired residual sugar level in the final product. (Usually spelled "muté " in this case and pronounced "mju:te".)

Related terms

 * mutism

Verb

 * 1)  To silence, to make quiet.
 * 2)  To turn off the sound of.
 * Please mute the music while I make a call.

Derived terms

 * muter

Thesaurus
abiotic, acoustic tile, allophone, alveolar, anaudic, antiknock, aphasic, aphonic, apico-alveolar, apico-dental, articulation, aspiration, assimilation, azoic, baffle, baffler, baton, bearer, bilabial, bit player, breathless, brief, brusque, cacuminal, cerebral, check, close, close-tongued, closemouthed, concise, consonant, continuant, curt, cushion, damp, dampen, dampener, damper, deaden, deaf-mute, deafen, dental, diapason, diphthong, dissimilation, dull, dumb, dumbfounded, dumbstricken, dumbstruck, dummy, economical of words, epenthetic vowel, exanimate, explosive, extra, figurant, figurante, gag, glide, glottal, glottalization, griever, guttural, hush, hushcloth, inanimate, inanimated, inarticulate, indisposed to talk, inert, insensate, insensible, insentient, keener, labial, labialization, labiodental, labiovelar, laconic, lamenter, laryngeal, lateral, lifeless, lingual, liquid, manner of articulation, metronome, modification, monochord, monophthong, morphophoneme, mourner, muffle, muffler, mum, music stand, muzzle, nasal, nonconscious, nonliving, occlusive, palatal, pallbearer, parasitic vowel, peak, pharyngeal, pharyngealization, phone, phoneme, pitch pipe, plosive, professional mourner, prothetic vowel, quiet, quietener, reserved, retroflex, rhythmometer, segmental phoneme, semivowel, senseless, short, silence, silence cloth, silencer, silent, snug, soft pedal, soft-pedal, soften, sonant, sonometer, sonority, sordine, sordino, soulless, sound-absorbing material, soundproofing, soundproofing insulation, sourdine, sparing of words, spear-carrier, speech sound, speechless, stand-in, standby, stick, stifle, stop, stricken dumb, subdue, substitute, supe, super, supernumerary, support, supporting actor, supporting cast, suppress, surd, syllabic nucleus, syllabic peak, syllable, tacit, taciturn, terse, tight-lipped, tone down, tone measurer, tongue-tied, tongueless, transition sound, triphthong, tuning bar, tuning fork, tuning pipe, turn down, unanimated, unconscious, understudy, unfeeling, unloquacious, unsaid, unspoken, untalkative, velar, vocable, vocalic, vocoid, voice, voiced sound, voiceless, voiceless sound, voicing, vowel, walk-on, walking gentleman, word-bound, wordless

Etymology
From, from , from mutus:

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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 * Arabic: أخرس, أبكم
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 * Bulgarian: ням, нямa , нямo
 * Catalan: mut
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 * Mandarin: 啞巴, 哑巴
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Noun

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 * Korean: 벙어리 (beongEori)
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Verb

 * Finnish:, ,
 * French: taire, rendre silencieux, rendre muet


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 * French: couper le son

Anagrams

 * émut, émût
 * meut
 * muet

Noun
mute



Noun

 * 1) mouth