mute

mute

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.

Wikipedia mute (plural mutes)

1. (phonetics, now historical) A stopped consonant; a stop. [from 16th c.]
2. (obsolete, theater) An actor who does not speak; a mime performer. [16th-19th c.]
3. A person who does not have the power of speech. [from 17th c.]
4. A hired mourner at a funeral; an undertakers assistant. [from 18th c.]
   • 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia, Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), p. 481:

     Then followed a long silence during which the mute turned to them and said, ‘Of course youll be wanting an urn, sir?’

5. (music) An object for dulling the sound of an instrument, especially a brass instrument, or damper for pianoforte; a sordine. [from 18th c.]

mute (comparative muter, superlative mutest)

1. Not having the power of speech; dumb. [from 15th c.]
2. Silent; not making a sound. [from 15th c.]
   • 1956, Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins (?, translators), Lion Feuchtwanger (German author), Raquel: The Jewess of Toledo (translation of Die Jüdin von Toledo),^[1] 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!”

	sordina
	sordine

muto

	Muto
	To eliminate or temporarily suppress the sound produced by a device, such as a computer or digital media device. A device in such a state has a volume level of zero.

	sordino
	sordine

raffreddare

raffreddarsi

silenzioso

tranquillo

Altri significati:

turn off the sound of

silence, make quiet

(transitive) To silence, to make quiet.

silent, not making a sound

A person who does not have the power of speech.

person unable to speak

An acting part where no speaking (and in opera, no singing) is required.

mute (on musical instruments)

An undertaker's assistant.

The deadening of an appliance's or musical instrument's volume.

(transitive) To turn off the sound of.

Not making a sound.

One refusing to speak.

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".)

Silent; not making a sound.

one refusing to speak

(of a person) Not having the power of speech.

In falconry, a mute is a hawk's or falcon's droppings, particularly more solid ones which fall down. (See slice.)

not having the power of speech

(music) An object for dulling the sound of an instrument, especially a brass instrument, or damper for pianoforte; a sordine.

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