mute – English noun declension

English noun forms of mute

Noun: mute
Singularmute
Pluralmutes

Sample Sentences

  • As for the poor honest Maid, whom all the Story is built upon, and who ought to be one of the principal Actors in the Play, she is commonly a Mute in it: [1668 OF Dramatick Poesie, AN ESSAY. By JOHN DRYDEN Esq; (John Dryden)]
  • The girl left, and presently returned, followed by two male mutes, to whom the Queen made another sign. [1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:]
  • He asked about the undertaking business, and how many mutes went down with Lady Estrich’s remains […] [1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter IX, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume II, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC, page 95:]
  • The little box was eventually carried in one hand by the leading mute, while his colleague, with a finger placed on the lid, to prevent it from swaying, walked to one side and a little to the rear. [1950, Mervyn Peake, Gormenghast, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, →OCLC:]
  • Then followed a long silence during which the mute turned to them and said, ‘Of course you'll be wanting an urn, sir?’ [1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 481:]
  • Another related primary control is called a mute, which is simply a switch that kills the signal altogether, allowing for a speedier turn-off than turning the fader all the way down rapidly. Mutes are probably more commonly used during multitrack music recording than during film mixing because in music all tracks are on practically all of the time, whereas workstations produce silence when there is no desired signal […] [2012, Tomlinson Holman, Sound for Film and Television, page 174:]
  • The trumpeters' fate seems likely to get tangled with that of the mute swan. Currently there's enough habitat for both species, but that may change if trumpeters flourish and mutes aren't controlled. Right now mutes are thriving. [1998, Bob Devine, National Geographic Society (U.S.), Alien invasion: America's battle with non-native animals and plants:]

Etymology

From Middle English muet, from Anglo-Norman muet, moet, Middle French muet, from mu (“dumb, mute”) + -et, remodelled after Latin mūtus. See: Middle English Nouns 'muet', Latin Nouns 'mūtus'.