muting

English

Verb

muting

  1. present participle and gerund of mute

Noun

muting (plural mutings)

  1. The dung of birds.
    • a. 1883, Charles Darwin, “Appendix”, in George John Romanes, Mental Evolution in Animals. […] With a Posthumous Essay on Instinct. By Charles Darwin, […], London: Kegan Paul, Trench, & Co., […], published 1883, →OCLC, page 379:
      It is more surprising that instinct should lead small nesting birds to remove their broken eggs and the early mutings, […]
  2. The process by which something is muted or silenced.
    • 2012, Gary Taylor, Trish Thomas Henley, The Oxford Handbook of Thomas Middleton, page 338:
      Film and dance theory offer a productive vocabulary for considering the effects of these mutings and deafenings.

Derived terms

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Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /muˈtiŋ/, [muˈtiŋ]
  • Hyphenation: mu‧ting

Noun

mutíng (Basahan spelling ᜋᜓᜆᜒᜅ᜔)

  1. (pathology) cataract
    Synonym: katarata
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