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Mating vs Muting - What's the difference?

mating | muting |

As nouns the difference between mating and muting

is that mating is (zoology) pairing of organisms for copulation while muting is the dung of birds.

As verbs the difference between mating and muting

is that mating is while muting is .

As an adjective mating

is fitting into or onto a corresponding part, as a matched plug and socket.

mating

English

(wikipedia mating)

Adjective

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  • Fitting into or onto a corresponding part, as a matched plug and socket.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (zoology) Pairing of organisms for copulation.
  • * 1981 , Henry Foster, The Mouse in Biomedical Research (page 96)
    • The progeny of backcrosses and intercrosses will form some incrosses and some matings of other types.
  • *{{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= William E. Conner
    • , title= An Acoustic Arms Race , volume=101, issue=3, page=206-7, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close (less than half a meter) above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them.}}

    Synonyms

    * pairing

    Verb

    (head)

    • Anagrams

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    muting

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The dung of birds.
  • * Charles Darwin
    • It is more surprising that instinct should lead small nesting birds to remove their broken eggs and the early mutings