Cool vs Mute - What's the difference?

In transitive terms the difference between cool and mute

is that cool is to make less intense, e.g. less amicable or passionate while mute is to cast off; to moult.

As adjectives the difference between cool and mute

is that cool is having a slightly low temperature; mildly or pleasantly cold while mute is not having the power of speech; dumb.

As nouns the difference between cool and mute

is that cool is a moderate or refreshing state of cold; moderate temperature of the air between hot and cold; coolness while mute is a stopped consonant; a stop.

As verbs the difference between cool and mute

is that cool is to lose heat, to get colder while mute is to silence, to make quiet.

As an acronym COOL

is CLIPS Object-Oriented Language

cool
English

Alternative forms
* (slang) coo, kewl, kool, qewl, qool
Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl) . Related to (l).
Adjective
(er)
Having a slightly low temperature; mildly or pleasantly cold.

*
, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=The day was cool and snappy for August, and the Rise all green with a lavish nature. Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges over the cold trout-streams, the boards giving back the clatter of our horses' feet:
Allowing or suggesting heat relief.

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=2 citation , passage=Now that she had rested and had fed from the luncheon tray Mrs. Broome had just removed, she had reverted to her normal gaiety. She looked cool in a grey tailored cotton dress with a terracotta scarf and shoes and her hair a black silk helmet.}}
Of a person, not showing emotion, calm and in self-control.

Unenthusiastic, lukewarm, skeptical.

Calmly audacious.

* (Nathaniel Hawthorne) (1804-1864)

Its cool stare of familiarity was intolerable.

* 1944 November 28, Irving Brecher and Fred F. Finklehoffe, Meet Me in St. Louis , Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer:

My father was talking to the World's Fair Commission yesterday, and they estimate it's going to cost a cool fifty million.

(label) Of a person, knowing what to do and how to behave; considered popular by others.

(label) In fashion, part of or fitting the in crowd; originally hipster slang.

* 2008 , Lou Schuler, "Foreward", in'' Nate Green, ''Built for Show , page xii

The fact that I was middle-aged, bald, married, and raising girls instead of chasing them didn't really bother me. Muscles are cool at any age.

(label) Of an action, all right; acceptable; that does not present a problem.

(label) A dismissal of a comment perceived as boring or pointless.

(label) Of a person, not upset by circumstances that might ordinarily be upsetting.

* (Henry Fielding) (1707-1754)

He had lost a cool hundred.

* (Charles Dickens) (1812-1870)

leaving a cool four thousand to Mr. Matthew Pocket

Synonyms
* (having a slightly low temperature) chilly * (not showing emotion) distant, phlegmatic, standoffish, unemotional * (in fashion) ** (standard) , fashionable, in fashion, modish, stylish ** (colloquial or slang) happening, hip, in, trendy * (acceptable) acceptable, all right, OK * (not upset) easy, fine, not bothered, not fussed'''
Antonyms
* (having a slightly low temperature) lukewarm, tepid, warm * (not showing emotion) passionate * (knowing what to do and how to behave) awkward, uncool * (in fashion) , old hat, out, out of fashion * (acceptable) not cricket (UK), not on, unacceptable * (not upset) bothered, upset * (unenthusiastic) warm
Derived terms
* cool head * coolish * coolly * coolness * keep one's cool * lose one's cool * uncool
Quotations
* The earliest use of the word in this way seems to be in ' "The Moonstone" 1868: *: "She has been a guest of yours at this house," I answered. "May I venture to suggest — if nothing was said about me beforehand — that I might see her here?" *: "Cool!" said Mr. Bruff. With that one word of comment on the reply that I had made to him, he took another turn up and down the room. *: "In plain English," he said, "my house is to be turned into a trap to catch Rachel ... * In 1602, Shakespeare wrote that Queen Gertrude told Hamlet: *: "O gentle son, Upon the heat and flame of thy distemper, Sprinkle cool patience."
Noun
(-)
A moderate or refreshing state of cold; moderate temperature of the air between hot and cold; coolness.

in the cool of the morning

A calm temperament.

Synonyms
*(calm temperament) calmness, composure
Etymology 2
From (etyl) colen, from (etyl) , altered to resemble the adjective cool. See (l).
Verb
(en verb)
(literally) To lose heat, to get colder.

I like to let my tea cool before drinking it so I don't burn my tongue.

To make cooler, less warm.

* Bible, Luke xvi. 24:

Send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue.

(figuratively) To become less intense, e.g. less amicable or passionate.

Relations cooled between the USA and the USSR after 1980.

To make less intense, e.g. less amicable or passionate.

* Shakespeare:

We have reason to cool our raging motions, our carnal stings, our unbitted lusts.

Derived terms
* coolant * cooler * cooling * cool off * cool down * cool it * cool one's heels * cool one's jets
Anagrams
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mute
English

Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), (etyl) (m), from .
Adjective
(er)
Not having the power of speech; dumb.

* Ovid: Metamorphoses , translated by (John Dryden)

Thus, while the mute creation downward bend / Their sight, and to their earthly mother tend, / Man looks aloft; and with erected eyes / Beholds his own hereditary skies. / From such rude principles our form began; / And earth was metamorphos'd into Man.

Silent; not making a sound.

* Milton

All the heavenly choir stood mute , / And silence was in heaven.

* 1956 , Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins (?, translators), Lion Feuchtwanger (German author), Raquel: The Jewess of Toledo'' (translation of '' ), Messner, page 178:

“ The heathens have broken into Thy Temple, and Thou art silent! Esau mocks Thy Children, and Thou remainest mute'! Show thyself, arise, and let Thy Voice resound, Thou '''mutest''' among all the ' mute !”

Not uttered; unpronounced; silent; also, produced by complete closure of the mouth organs which interrupt the passage of breath; said of certain letters.

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

Noun
(en noun)

(obsolete, theatre) An actor who does not speak; a mime performer.

* 1668 OF Dramatick Poesie, AN ESSAY. By JOHN DRYDEN Esq; ((John Dryden))

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:

A person who does not have the power of speech.

A hired mourner at a funeral; an undertaker's assistant.

*

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.

* 1978 , (Lawrence Durrell), Livia'', Faber & Faber 1992 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 481:

Then followed a long silence during which the mute turned to them and said, ‘Of course you'll be wanting an urn, sir?’

(music) An object for dulling the sound of an instrument, especially a brass instrument, or damper for pianoforte; a sordine.

Related terms
* mutism
Verb
(mut)
To silence, to make quiet.

To turn off the sound of.

Please mute the music while I make a call.

Derived terms
* muter
See also
* autism * dumb
Etymology 2
From (etyl) (m), probably a shortened form of (m), ultimately from (etyl).
Verb
(mut)

(Ben Jonson)

Noun
(en noun)
The faeces of a hawk or falcon.

(Hudibras)

Etymology 3
(etyl) (lena) .
Verb
(mut)
To cast off; to moult.

* Beaumont and Fletcher

Have I muted all my feathers?
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