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mutings

mutings is the plural of muting.

Meaning of muting

Noun (1)

muting (plural mutings)

  1. The process by which something is muted or silenced.
    • Film and dance theory offer a productive vocabulary for considering the effects of these mutings and deafenings.2012, Gary Taylor, Trish Thomas Henley, The Oxford Handbook of Thomas Middleton, page 338

Noun (2)

muting (plural mutings)

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

Questions about mutings

What is mutings the plural of?
Mutings is the plural of muting.

Words near mutings in the dictionary

  1. mutineers
  2. mutineries
  3. mutinery
  4. mutines
  5. muting
  6. mutings
  7. mutinied
  8. mutinies
  9. mutining
  10. mutinize
  11. mutinized

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