Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word MUTE

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Definitions of MUTE

1. Not uttered; unpronounced; silent; also, produced by complete closure of the mouth organs which interrupt the passage of breath; said of certain letters.
2. Not giving a ringing sound when struck; said of a metal.
3. An electronic switch or control that mutes the sound.
4. A mute swan.
5. The faeces of a hawk or falcon.
6. Not having the power of speech; dumb. [from 15th c.]
7. Silent; not making a sound. [from 15th c.]
8. (phonetics, nowobsolete) A stopped consonant; a stop. [from 16th c.]
9. (obsolete, theatre) An actor who does not speak; a mime performer. [16th]
10. A person who does not have the power of speech. [from 17th c.]
11. A hired mourner at a funeral; an undertaker's assistant. [from 18th c.]
12. (music) An object for dulling the sound of an instrument, especially a brass instrument, or damper for pianoforte; a sordine. [from 18th c.]
13. (transitive) To silence, to make quiet.
14. (transitive) To turn off the sound of.
15. (nowrare) Of a bird: to defecate. [from 15th c.]
16. (transitive) To cast off; to moult.

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Examples of Using MUTE in a Sentence

• February 3 – The National Deaf Mute College (later renamed Gallaudet University) is established in Washington, D.
• Dementia, during which the person becomes unresponsive or mute over the course of six months, is the final stage of the disease, after which death follows.
• Goddesses Mutae Tacitae were invoked to destroy a hated person: in an inscription from Cambodunum in Raetia, someone asks "ut mutus sit Quartus" and "erret fugiens ut mus" ("that Quartus be mute" and that he "wander, fleeing, like a mouse").
• Lakeland is situated among several lakes including Lake Morton downtown and is sometimes locally referred to by the nickname "Swan City" due to its sizeable population of swans, all of whom are descendants of two mute swans given to Lakeland by Queen Elizabeth II in 1957.
• One comparison case was the mute swan, also an invasive and destructive species of the Chesapeake Bay watershed but, in comparison, quite beautiful, and which garnered support from some environmental and animal rights groups.
• In 1968, protests occurred in Salisbury after a police officer fatally shot a deaf and mute African-American man.
• Loosely based on Federico Fellini's film La Strada, the film tells the story of jazz guitarist Emmet Ray (played by Sean Penn) who falls in love with mute laundress Hattie (Samantha Morton).
• 806, which chartered the grammar school as the Columbia Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind and funded tuition costs for indigent deaf, dumb (mute), or blind children belonging to the District of Columbia.
• A mute is a device attached to a musical instrument which changes the instrument's tone quality (timbre) or lowers its volume.
• Unlike most F-Zero games, there are three iterations of Mute City that show it in either a day, evening, or night setting with slightly different configurations.
• "You're No Good" opens with solo bass guitar treated with a flanger, followed by Eddie gently swelling guitar chords by using a volume control to mute their initial attack, a technique later used on "Cathedral" (from Diver Down, 1982).
• Nicholas Beggs (born 15 December 1961) is a British musician, noted for playing the bass guitar and the Chapman Stick; he is a member of the Mute Gods and Kajagoogoo, formerly also a part of Iona and Ellis, Beggs & Howard and plays in the band of Steven Wilson.
• During his time at the New Statesman, Barnes suffered from debilitating shyness, saying: "When there were weekly meetings I would be paralysed into silence, and was thought of as the mute member of staff".
• UMG divested Mute Records, Parlophone, Roxy Recordings, MPS Records, Cooperative Music, Now That's What I Call Music!, Jazzland, Universal Greece, Sanctuary Records, Chrysalis Records, EMI Classics, Virgin Classics, and EMI's European regional labels to comply with this condition.
• Uncle has friends and supporters, including the Old Monkey, the One-Armed Badger, the cat Goodman, Noddy Ninety, Cloutman, the King of the Badgers, and Butterskin Mute.
• The text quotes ideas from the gospel and derives from these the analogy that as the tongue of the deaf mute man was opened, the believer should be open to admire God's miraculous deeds.
• Peine forte et dure (Law French for "forceful and hard punishment") was a method of torture formerly used in the common law legal system, in which a defendant who refused to plead ("stood mute") would be subjected to having heavier and heavier stones placed upon his or her chest until a plea was entered, or as the weight of the stones on the chest became too great for the condemned to breathe, fatal suffocation would occur.
• It was first released on 19 March 1990 by Mute Records internationally, and by Sire and Reprise Records in the United States.
• James Wesley "Bubber" Miley (April 3, 1903 – May 20, 1932) was an American early jazz trumpet and cornet player, specializing in the use of the plunger mute.
• The first supposed apparition dates back to the mid 18th century in Ortiga, now a quarter of Fátima, when, according to popular belief, the Virgin Mary appeared to a young, mute shepherdess and asked for one of her sheep, causing the girl to speak in response.

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