Mute

[mjuːt] or [mjut]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) a device used to soften the tone of a musical instrument.

(noun.) a deaf person who is unable to speak.

(adj.) expressed without speech; 'a mute appeal'; 'a silent curse'; 'best grief is tongueless'- Emily Dickinson; 'the words stopped at her lips unsounded'; 'unspoken grief'; 'choking exasperation and wordless shame'- Thomas Wolfe .

卡里校對--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(v. t.) To cast off; to molt.

(v. t. & i.) To eject the contents of the bowels; -- said of birds.

(n.) The dung of birds.

(a.) Not speaking; uttering no sound; silent.

(a.) Incapable of speaking; dumb.

(a.) Not uttered; unpronounced; silent; also, produced by complete closure of the mouth organs which interrupt the passage of breath; -- said of certain letters. See 5th Mute, 2.

(a.) Not giving a ringing sound when struck; -- said of a metal.

(n.) One who does not speak, whether from physical inability, unwillingness, or other cause.

(n.) One who, from deafness, either congenital or from early life, is unable to use articulate language; a deaf-mute.

(n.) A person employed by undertakers at a funeral.

(n.) A person whose part in a play does not require him to speak.

(n.) Among the Turks, an officer or attendant who is selected for his place because he can not speak.

(n.) A letter which represents no sound; a silent letter; also, a close articulation; an element of speech formed by a position of the mouth organs which stops the passage of the breath; as, p, b, d, k, t.

(n.) A little utensil made of brass, ivory, or other material, so formed that it can be fixed in an erect position on the bridge of a violin, or similar instrument, in order to deaden or soften the tone.

手打:齐妮亚

同義詞及近義詞：

a. [1]. Dumb, unable to speak, incapable of speech.[2]. Silent, speechless, taciturn, mum.

校對:内奥米

同義詞及反義詞：

SYN:Silent, speechless, dumb, taciturn, voiceless, still, death-like

ANT:Chattering, talkative, garrulous, loquacious, vocal, tuneful, loud

錄入:西德尼

解釋/意思:

adj. incapable of speaking: dumb: silent: unpronounced.—n. one dumb or remaining silent: a person stationed by undertakers at the door of a house at a funeral: a stopped sound formed by the shutting of the mouth-organs esp. the surds t p k but also applied to the sonant or voiced consonants d b g and even the nasals n m ng: (law) one who refuses to plead.—v.t. to deaden sound.—adv. Mute′ly.—n. Mute′ness.

v.i. to dung as birds.

錄入:赛斯