Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act or process of damping or deadening the sound, as of a musical instrument.
- noun The act of passing excrement: said of fowls; also, the dung of fowls.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Dung of birds.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Present participle of
mute . - noun The
dung ofbirds .
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Examples
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If you succeed in muting all your critics to the left, all you do is create a situation where your program is defined in the press and the congress and the public imagination as the most-leftwing-possible proposal.
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If you succeed in muting all your critics to the left, all you do is create a situation where your program is defined in the press and the congress and the public imagination as the most-leftwing-possible proposal.
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If you succeed in muting all your critics to the left, all you do is create a situation where your program is defined in the press and the congress and the public imagination as the most-leftwing-possible proposal.
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The booing — a spontaneous expression of natrional hostility towards a venal corrupt figure — - is an established fact and no amount of muting from the Big Three or Cable can erase it.
Think Progress » VIDEO: Cheney Loudly Booed During First Pitch 2006
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So there's a kind of collaboration between Presidents and the public in muting these ailments.
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So there's a kind of collaboration between Presidents and the public in muting these ailments.
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As such I've been looking for a lesson or some article that discusses muting other than palm muting, which is effective for certain types of playing, on UG.
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YouTube explained in its blog post that the muting occurs when a copyright holder claims that a video uses its music illegally.
GigaOM Network 2009
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Do you think the whole Irish Catholic thing, with a kind of muting of emotion and a prohibition on contraception and abortion, lends itself to that kind of story?
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Between interviews, he's been supervising fixes to the game, such as muting one character's annoying tic of repeatedly shouting Praise the Lord! ''
Archive 2006-12-01 Andrew Beckner 2006
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