Толковый словарь английского языка - mute
Mute
mute
I. adjective (~r; ~st) Etymology: Middle English muet, mut, from Anglo-French, from mu, ~, from Latin mutus, probably from mu, representation of a muttered sound Date: 1513 unable to speak ; lacking the power of speech, characterized by absence of speech: as, felt or experienced but not expressed , refusing to plead directly or stand trial , remaining silent, undiscovered, or unrecognized, 4. contributing nothing to the pronunciation of a word , contributing to the pronunciation of a word but not representing the nucleus of a syllable , ~ly adverb ~ness noun II. noun Date: 1530 stop 9, a person who cannot or does not speak, a device attached to or inserted into a musical instrument to soften or alter its tone, III. transitive verb (~d; muting) Date: 1883 to muffle, reduce, or eliminate the sound of, to tone down ; soften , subdue , IV. intransitive verb (~d; muting) Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French *meutir, short for ameutir, alteration of Old French esmeltir, of Germanic origin; akin to Middle Dutch smelten to melt, make fluid, defecate (of birds) Date: 15th century to evacuate the cloaca
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adj., n., & v. --adj. 1 silent, refraining from or temporarily bereft of speech. 2 not emitting articulate sound. 3 (of a person or animal) dumb. 4 not expressed in speech (mute protest). 5 a (of a letter) not pronounced. b (of a consonant) plosive. 6 (of hounds) not giving tongue. --n. 1 a dumb person (a deaf mute). 2 Mus. a a clamp for damping the resonance of the strings of a violin etc. b a pad or cone for damping the sound of a wind instrument. 3 an unsounded consonant. 4 an actor whose part is in a dumb show. 5 a dumb servant in oriental countries. 6 a hired mourner. --v.tr. 1 deaden, muffle, or soften the sound of (a thing, esp. a musical instrument). 2 a tone down, make less intense. b (as muted adj.) (of colours etc.) subdued (a muted green). Phrases and idioms mute button a device on a telephone etc. to temporarily prevent the caller from hearing what is being said at the receiver's end. mute swan the common white swan. Derivatives mutely adv. muteness n. Etymology: ME f. OF muet, dimin. of mu f. L mutus, assim. to L ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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