mute

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Etymology 1.2.1 Homophones 1.3 Adjective 1.3.1 Translations 1.4 Noun 1.4.1 Related terms 1.4.2 Translations 1.5 Verb 1.5.1 Derived terms 1.5.2 Translations 1.6 See also 2 Italian 2.1 Adjective 2.2 Noun 3 Latvian 3.1 Noun

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[edit] Pronunciation

• (RP) enPR: myo͞ot, IPA: /mjuːt/, SAMPA: /mju:t/
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• Rhymes: -uːt

[edit] Etymology

Via Middle English and Old French from Latin mutus.

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• moot (in some dialects)

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mute (not comparable)

1. Silent; not making a sound.
2. (of a person) Not having the power of speech.

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Wikipedia

mute (plural mutes)

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. (music) 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.
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".)

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• mutism

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to mute (third-person singular simple present mutes, present participle muting, simple past and past participle muted)

1. (transitive) To silence, to make quiet.
2. (transitive) To turn off the sound of.

   Please mute the music while I make a call.

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• muter

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[edit] See also

• autism
• dumb

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[edit] Italian

[edit] Adjective

mute (pl)

1. Feminine form of muto.

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mute f.

1. Plural form of muta.

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[edit] Latvian

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mute

1. mouth

Fifth declension noun

	singular	plural
nominative	mute	mutes
genitive	mutes	mušu
dative	mutei	mutēm
accusative	muti	mutes
locative	mutē	mutēs