muted

«muted» in Mova's school dictionary: Quiet and soft, not loud — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective (muted); verb past form of mute (mute, mutes, muted, muting)

meaning for a pupil

1) Quiet and soft, not loud. tree →

2) (of colours) Soft and not bright. tree →

3) (of feelings or reactions) Not strong; held back. tree →

4) (computing) With the sound turned off, as on a video call or phone. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday and online-lesson life, you are muted when your microphone is off ("you're on mute!"). In art, muted colours are soft greys, browns and pale shades. In news, a muted reaction means people were not very excited. Phrases: on mute, muted colours, muted response.

examples

• You're muted, so we can't hear you. tree →
• The teacher muted everyone during the video call. tree →
• The room was painted in muted greens and greys. tree →
• The trumpet sounded muted with the cup in it. tree →
• The news got a muted reaction from the crowd. tree →
• I muted the TV during the adverts. tree →

note

Past form of mute (to turn off sound). Mute as an adjective once described people who could not speak; today that is seen as rude, so say non-speaking instead.

In the corpora

• He muted the man (the silence was wonderful), blocked him, and his dad showed him the report button.
• Ruby heard grown-up strangers swearing on voice chat and muted all voice chat in the settings.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «muted» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.