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How to pronounce “mute”
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Pronunciation guide for mute
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of mute with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- How Blind Users Experience Youtube
100-- Mute to-- Play button.
- Definition summary
- Not having the power of speech; dumb. [from 15th c.]
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce mute
How Blind Users Experience Youtube
100-- Mute to-- Play button.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “mute”
Meaning
- [Adjective]
- Not having the power of speech; dumb. [from 15th c.]
- Silent; not making a sound. [from 15th c.]
- Not uttered; unpronounced; silent; also, produced by complete closure of the mouth organs which interrupt the passage of breath; said of certain letters.
- Not giving a ringing sound when struck; said of a metal.
- [Noun]
- (phonetics, now obsolete) A stopped consonant; a stop. [from 16th c.]
- (obsolete, theater) An actor who does not speak; a mime performer. [16th–19th c.]
- A person who does not have the power of speech. [from 17th c.]
- A hired mourner at a funeral; an undertaker's assistant. [from 18th c.]
- (music) An object for dulling the sound of an instrument, especially a brass instrument, or damper for pianoforte; a sordine. [from 18th c.]
- An electronic switch or control that mutes the sound.
- A mute swan.
- [Verb]
- (transitive) To silence, to make quiet.
- (transitive) To turn off the sound of.
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