muteness
缄默,沉默,缄默不语,无声
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.