muting

muting

1. present participle and gerund of mute

muting (plural mutings)

1. The dung of birds.
   • a. 1883, Charles Darwin, “Appendix”, in George John Romanes, Mental Evolution in Animals. […] With a Posthumous Essay on Instinct. By Charles Darwin, […], London: Kegan Paul, Trench, & Co., […], published 1883, →OCLC, page 379:

     It is more surprising that instinct should lead small nesting birds to remove their broken eggs and the early mutings, […]

2. 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.

• IPA^(key): /muˈtiŋ/ [muˈtiŋ]
• Hyphenation: mu‧ting

mutíng (Basahan spelling ᜋᜓᜆᜒᜅ᜔)

1. (pathology) cataract

   Synonym: katarata