Usually means: Unable to produce spoken sound.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. mute: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. mute: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. mute: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. mute: Collins English Dictionary
  5. mute: Vocabulary.com
  6. Mute, mute: Wordnik
  7. mute: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Mute: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  9. mute: Wiktionary
  10. mute: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. mute: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. mute: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. mute: Dictionary.com
  14. mute: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. mute: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. MUTE, Mute (The Twilight Zone), Mute (death customs), Mute (film), Mute (magazine), Mute (music), Mute (short story), Mute: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Mute: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. mute: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. mute: Rhymezone
  20. mute: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. mute: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. mute: Free Dictionary
  23. mute: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. mute: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. mute: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Essentials of Music (No longer online)
  2. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. mute: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. mute: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Mute (Disorder), mute: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Mute: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Mute (speech), mute: Medical dictionary
  5. Mute: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. MUTE: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. mute: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. mute: The Folk File
  3. mute: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Mute: Sports Definitions

Tech (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. mute: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
  2. Glossary of video terms (No longer online)
  3. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Rane Professional Audio Reference (No longer online)
  5. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

(Note: See muted as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Not having the power of speech; dumb.
adjective:  Silent; not making a sound.
adjective:  Not uttered; unpronounced; silent; also, produced by complete closure of the mouth organs which interrupt the passage of breath; said of certain letters.
adjective:  Not giving a ringing sound when struck; said of a metal.
noun:  (phonetics, now obsolete) A stopped consonant; a stop.
noun:  (obsolete, theater) An actor who does not speak; a mime performer.
noun:  A person who does not have the power of speech.
noun:  A hired mourner at a funeral; an undertaker's assistant.
noun:  (music) An object for dulling the sound of an instrument, especially a brass instrument, or damper for pianoforte; a sordine.
noun:  An electronic switch or control that mutes the sound.
noun:  A mute swan.
verb:  (transitive) To silence, to make quiet.
verb:  (transitive) To turn off the sound of.
verb:  (now rare) Of a bird: to defecate.
noun:  The faeces of a hawk or falcon.
verb:  (transitive) To cast off; to moult.

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