- A
mute is a
device attached to a
musical instrument which changes the instrument's tone
quality (timbre) or
lowers its volume.
Mutes are
commonly used...
-
Frances the
Mute is the
second studio album by
American progressive rock band The Mars
Volta released in
February 2005 on Gold
Standard Laboratories and...
- The
mute swan (Cygnus olor) is a
species of swan and a
member of the
waterfowl family Anatidae. It is
native to much of Eurasia, and (as a rare winter...
- the
mute swan, has been
introduced to
North America,
Australia and New Zealand.
Several species are migratory,
either wholly or
partly so. The
mute swan...
-
directed the
films Moon (2009),
Source Code (2011),
Warcraft (2016), and
Mute (2018). For Moon, he won the
BAFTA Award for
Outstanding Debut by a British...
- ****yria" (
mutēr gimilli māt Aššur). Ashur-resh-ishi's son and
successor Tiglath-Pileser I (r. 1114–1076 BC)
inaugurated a
second period of
Middle ****yrian...
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straight mute, cup
mute,
harmon mute (wah-wah or wow-wow
mute,
among other names), plunger,
bucket mute, and
practice mute. A
straight mute is generally...
-
Mute English is a term
coined in the People's
Republic of
China to
describe a
phenomenon where people cannot speak English well and have a poor listening...
- "
Mute" is a
crime short story by
author Stephen King,
first published in
Playboy magazine in 2007 and
subsequently collected in his work Just
After Sunset...
- made from a
separate piece of timber. This bell can
sometimes be muted, the
mute being either detachable, or
built into the instrument. The
outside of the...
