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muteness

/myoot/US // myut //UK // (mjuːt) //

缄默,沉默,缄默不语,无声

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
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    mut·er, mut·est.

    • : silent; refraining from speech or utterance.
    • : not emitting or having sound of any kind.
    • : incapable of speech: Animals are mute and are only able to speak in fairy tales and fables.
    • : silent; not pronounced: The mute “e” in the word “dime” makes the preceding vowel long, so it is not pronounced like “dim.”
    • : Law. making no plea or giving an irrelevant response when arraigned, or refusing to stand trial.
    • : Fox Hunting. hunting a line without giving tongue or cry.
n.名词 noun
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    • : Offensive. a person incapable of speech.
    • : an actor whose part is confined to dumb show.
    • : Law. a person who stands mute when arraigned.
    • : Also called sordino . a mechanical device of various shapes and materials for muffling the tone of a musical instrument.
    • : Phonetics. stop.
    • : British Obsolete. a hired mourner at a funeral; a professional mourner.
v.有主动词 verb
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    mut·ed, mut·ing.

    • : to deaden or muffle the sound of: The music was a little muted by distance and the trees.
    • : to turn off:During the commercials, they muted the TV and discussed the game.Check the mic icon to make sure you're not muted.
    • : to reduce the intensity of by the addition of another color.
    • : to soften or subdue; moderate: His happiness about returning to the United States was muted by his concern for the other hostages.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as inquietness
as insilence
as innoiselessness
as insoundlessness
as inspeechlessness

Examples

  • That means, if you don’t have captions on your video, it’ll be skipped by anyone watching with the mute button on, which could be a sizable chunk of your target audience.

  • “Mute me like you’ve muted the city of Detroit, go ahead and push the button,” he said.

  • If you want it to, the watch can display your phone’s notifications to its screen, but it’s easy to mute that by pushing and holding the top right button.

  • Magashule, the man who usually communicates such decisions, was muted, quite literally, during the Zoom-hosted press conference in which Ramaphosa reported multiple changes to the party’s policy on corruption.

  • The quality is often grainy, the audio is on mute, and the streams are, frankly, quite boring to watch.

  • Around them on every side crept the mist in whose silver muteness they landed to gather white mushrooms.

  • Henrietta could have bitten her tongue for laying her open to the censure implied in his muteness.

  • She turned abruptly away, and stood at a distance in gloomy muteness.

  • For a day or two he persevered in his muteness, uttering a word only when it could not be avoided.

  • But her muteness passed unnoticed, because for once in her life Miss Sabrina was voluble, her words tumbled over one another.