muting
present participle ofmute
mute
verb[T]
uk/mjuːt/us/mjuːt/If you mute anoise, or adevicemaking anoise, you make it lessloudor notableto beheardat all:
Heavycurtainsmuted thenoiseof thetraffic.
She muted the TV so she couldhearwhat he was saying.
Don'tforgetto muteyourmicrophonewhen anotherpersonon thecallisspeaking.
to make apersonunableto beheard, forexamplewhen usingvideoconferencingsoftware:
Automatically muteparticipantsas theyjointhemeeting, andallowparticipantsto unmute themselves if theywanttospeaktoothersin themeeting.
musicspecialized
If you mute amusicalinstrument, youattachadeviceto it thatchangesitssound, usually making itquieter:
Thesongfeaturesmutedtrumpets.
tostopsomeone'smessages,pictures, etc.appearingon asocialmediawebsitewhen youlookat it, withoutremovingthepersonas afriend:
Instagram nowletsyou muteyourfriends.
Silence & quiet
- cricket
- cricketsidiom
- deafening
- deafeningly
- hush
- inaudibly
- keep it downidiom
- keepsomethingdown
- muffled
- muted
- quiet
- quieten
- silent
- silently
- soundlessly
- subdued
- trail away/off
- underyourbreathidiom
- unmute
- you could have heard a pin dropidiom
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In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
This control was performed comparing the seismic sections with and without surgicalmutingof this event.
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Even at the most basic level of operating skill, accompaniments can be shaped by simply 'mutingout' chosen strands of the texture at certain points.
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Thismutingof enthusiasm for pure autonomy furnishes a subtheme for the book but does not eliminate the episodic quality.
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When the minimum consumption values are increased from 0.5 to 0.525, there is a similarmutingof food price decrease, and the poor country benefits more from the technology improvement.
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Clement's reading strategy, her 'forcefulmuting' of music, is nowhere more evident than in these vignettes.
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This struggle between two ways of valorising themutingof music is paralleled by two ways of valorising the emergence of music as a private experience.
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Mutingwas applied to eliminate critical refractions.
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In heavy metal (or just metal) music, this is typically expanded to more complex sequences comprising a combination of chords, single notes and palmmuting.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The chorus is thrash metal with singing vocal and the interlude is speed metal with heavy guitarmutingand rap vocal on top.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Both theorists believemutingis involved, but they see it from different standpoints.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Left-handmutingis used to produce chops: chords that are released the instant after picking.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Pressing the hand down intensively makes heavymuting, enhancing staccato effect, adding percussion and making notes less recognizable.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Some pianos omit the sostenuto pedal, or have a middle pedal with a different purpose such as amutingfunction also known as silent piano.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.An alternate second bell, called amutingbell, is also available, which serves to muffle the instrument for playing in a small ensemble.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The added strings of the extended-range bass compound themutingproblems that many bassists encounter.
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