What's the difference between muffled and muted?

Muffled


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Muffle

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Weirdly, the muffled Doppler effects of several thousand passing SUVs was quite soothing.
  • (2) True diastolic pressure is usually closer to the disappearance point of Korotkoff sounds than to the muffling phase.
  • (3) Hence his fondness for placing the camera far away from its subjects: Hidden coolly watches as a child's small world falls apart, his cries muffled by the intervening space; and Code Unknown concludes by showing how life, likened by Haneke to a flea circus, indifferently unravels on a Paris boulevard.
  • (4) The presence of a muffled voice led to radiologic and indirect laryngoscopic examination confirming the diagnosis.
  • (5) The effect of El Niño during these years compounded the muffling effect of greenhouse gases and lead to exceptionally hot global temperatures.
  • (6) I heard about three or four shots fired, but they were muffled, as if taking place indoors,” one witness told Agence France-Presse.
  • (7) Common symptoms include fever, swollen neck, difficult swallowing, muffled voice and hyperextension of the head and neck.
  • (8) In places there were moans and muffled cries beneath the ruins, spurring frantic efforts to dig people out with bare hands and improvised tools.
  • (9) The determinations of calcium, magnesium, and phosphorus in dentine showed no significant differences between LTA, muffle furnace ashing (MFA), and wet ashing.
  • (10) The policemen closed the doors, but the muffled screams continued outside.
  • (11) The samples of the mentioned tissues were dried and ashed in the muffle furnace.
  • (12) Questions will undoutedly be asked about Brown's vocal capabilities – once described by Guardian critic Alexis Petridis as "a muffled, gloomy honk, like a despondent goose wearing a balaclava" – and whether the band, now in middle-age, will be able to capture the heady excitement of their early days.
  • (13) For some it sounded muffled and far away, as though somewhere in the distance a big balloon had popped.
  • (14) Once again, Vince Cable is a rather lonely prophet worrying where this will lead, but this time a voice of warning somewhat muffled by collective responsibility.
  • (15) Fabricant, who was strongly involved in the Tory campaign in Eastleigh, tweeted: "The Conservative voice is muffled and not crisp.
  • (16) But instead of a traditional riot or at least some minor destruction, the place was filled with well-behaved individuals, talking in the "inside voices" with muffled jubilation (even when the US won!).
  • (17) Abnormal or muffled heart sounds associated with pericarditis and epicarditis was the most common sequela, occurring in 40 cases.
  • (18) The polite approach of London Citizens has so far yielded muffled responses, but the issue will be raised at a November board meeting: if there is no decisive yes, expect the gloves to come off, and more direct action, including a shoppers' boycott.
  • (19) Inadequate velopharyngeal function, whether congenital or subsequent to palatal repair, may be masked by the presence of other speech problems in this syndrome, particularly by the "muffled" voice quality which appears to be associated with an elevated and retracted tongue posture.
  • (20) Extreme sore throat, pooling of oral secretions, muffled voice, and elevated temperature were uncommon.

Muted


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