mute

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[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)

Positive
mute

Comparative
not comparable

Superlative
none (absolute)

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

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Singular
mute

Plural
mutes

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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Infinitive
to mute

Third person singular
mutes

Simple past
muted

Past participle
muted

Present participle
muting

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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[edit] Italian

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mute (pl)

  1. Feminine form of muto.

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mute f.

  1. Plural form of muta.

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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
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