Mute vs Death - What's the difference?
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Not having the power of speech; dumb.
* Ovid: Metamorphoses , translated by (John Dryden)
Silent; not making a sound.
* Milton
* 1956 , Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins (?, translators), Lion Feuchtwanger (German author), Raquel: The Jewess of Toledo'' (translation of '' ), Messner, page 178:
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.
(obsolete, theatre) An actor who does not speak; a mime performer.
* 1668 OF Dramatick Poesie, AN ESSAY. By JOHN DRYDEN Esq; ((John Dryden))
A person who does not have the power of speech.
A hired mourner at a funeral; an undertaker's assistant.
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* 1978 , (Lawrence Durrell), Livia'', Faber & Faber 1992 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 481:
(music) An object for dulling the sound of an instrument, especially a brass instrument, or damper for pianoforte; a sordine.
To silence, to make quiet.
To turn off the sound of.
To cast off; to moult.
* Beaumont and Fletcher
The cessation of life and all associated processes; the end of an organism's existence as an entity independent from its environment and its return to an inert, nonliving state.
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*:They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?—and so magnificent a brush as he had too..
*1900 , , (The House Behind the Cedars) , Ch.I:
*:"‘Death ,’" quoted Warwick, with whose mood the undertaker's remarks were in tune, "‘is the penalty that all must pay for the crime of living.’"
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, magazine=(American Scientist), title= The personification of death as a hooded figure with a scythe; the Grim Reaper.
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(lb) The collapse or end of something.
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As a verb mute
is .As an adjective mute
is mutated.As a proper noun death is
the personification of death, often a skeleton with a scythe, and one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse.mute
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), (etyl) (m), from .Adjective
(er)- 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.
- All the heavenly choir stood mute , / And silence was in heaven.
- “ 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 !”
Noun
(en noun)- 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:
- 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.
- Then followed a long silence during which the mute turned to them and said, ‘Of course you'll be wanting an urn, sir?’
Verb
(mut)- Please mute the music while I make a call.
Derived terms
* muterSee also
* autism * dumbEtymology 2
From (etyl) (m), probably a shortened form of (m), ultimately from (etyl).Verb
(mut)- (Ben Jonson)
Etymology 3
(etyl) (lena) .Verb
(mut)- Have I muted all my feathers?
death
English
(wikipedia death)Alternative forms
* (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)Philip J. Bushnell
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Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* accidental death * angel of death * at death's door * Black Death * brain death * cause of death * cell death * civil death * clinical death * cot death * dance of death * dead * deadly * death adder * death angel * death bell * death benefit * death by burning * death by fire * death camas * death camp * death cap * death certificate * death chair * death chamber * death cross * death cup * death drive * death duty * death growl * death house * death instinct * death knell * death march * death mask * death metal * death penalty * death phase * death put * death rate * death rattle * death ray * death roll * death row * death seat * death sentence * death spiral * death squad * death stick * death tax * death to * death toll * Death Valley * death warrant * death wish * death's-head * deathbird * deathblow * deathful * deathless * deathlike * deathly * deathmatch * deathsman * deathward * deathwatch * deathy * fan death * heat death * human death * infant death * instadeath * kiss of death * life-and-death * life-or-death * like death warmed over * living death * megadeath * near-death * put to death * screen death * sentence to death * sudden death * sudden infant death syndrome * valley of death * violent death * voodoo death * wrongful death (lookfrom)See also
* afterlife * die * the big one * the big sleep * cemetery * early grave * funeral * graveyard * morgue * mortal * mortician * mortuary * obituary * tombstone * cremationExternal links
*The Definition of Death- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
