muting
English
Noun
muting (plural mutings)
- The dung of birds.
- 1859 November 24, Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, […], London: John Murray, […], →OCLC:
- It is more surprising that instinct should lead small nesting birds to remove their broken eggs and the early mutings […]
- The process by which something is muted or silenced.
- 2012, Gary Taylor, Trish Thomas Henley, The Oxford Handbook of Thomas Middleton, page 338:
- Film and dance theory offer a productive vocabulary for considering the effects of these mutings and deafenings.
Derived terms
Bikol Central
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /muˈtiŋ/, [muˈtiŋ]
- Hyphenation: mu‧ting
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