What's the difference between mule and mute?

Mule


Definition:

  • (n.) A hybrid animal; specifically, one generated between an ass and a mare, sometimes a horse and a she-ass. See Hinny.
  • (n.) A plant or vegetable produced by impregnating the pistil of one species with the pollen or fecundating dust of another; -- called also hybrid.
  • (n.) A very stubborn person.
  • (n.) A machine, used in factories, for spinning cotton, wool, etc., into yarn or thread and winding it into cops; -- called also jenny and mule-jenny.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) An experimental Anaplasma marginale infection was induced in a splenectomized mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus hemionus) which persisted subclinically at least 376 days as detected by subinoculation into susceptible cattle.
  • (2) BigDog Facebook Twitter Pinterest BigDog is a autonomous packhorse Funded by Darpa and the US army, BigDog is Boston Dynamics’ most famous robot, a large mule-like quadruped that walks around like a dog, self balancing and navigating a range of terrain.
  • (3) Like a great many people in what was at that time an industrial country, I grew up in a landscape that was interestingly pockmarked with successive eras of exploitation, and all of it so commonplace that beyond a mention of its origins, Watt's engine or Crompton's spinning mule, it never found a place in the history books.
  • (4) • +30 24240 65245 Don't miss Alonissos is great for hiking and one of the easiest trails is up the cobbled kalderimi, or old mule path, to Hora.
  • (5) Leucocytes from the blood of adult and young donkeys (Equus asinus L.), adult horses (Equus caballus L.), adult mules (Equus asinus x Equus caballus) and adult pigs (Sus scrofa L.) were obtained in a high degree of purity (99.9%) using Na2-EDTA-dextrans mixtures.
  • (6) Like domestic sheep and goats, mule deer may be highly susceptible to infection, and it is unlikely mule deer can survive infection with large numbers of F. magna.
  • (7) The problem now is to explain how mules and hinnies can occasionally produce spermatozoa or ova.
  • (8) A caravan comprising 300 yaks, 50 mules and 100 porters wound through the Himalayan valleys, carrying 900 boxes of food, all because 13 white men wanted to reach the summit.
  • (9) But she is in fact a semi-legal data mule in the country’s “offline internet”.
  • (10) Twenty mule deer fawns (Odocoileus hemionus) were removed from their dams 48 h after birth, and hand-reared.
  • (11) An Australian couple were unwittingly conned into becoming multi-million dollar drug mules after winning a dream trip to Canada with new luggage thrown in.
  • (12) Cafe Mule was overflowing with visitors in the opening hours of Leipzig's art weekend.
  • (13) While hoverboards have been around for only a few years, they are banned from pavements under a section of the 1835 Highways Act , which says people cannot use the footway to “lead or drive any horse, ass, sheep, mule, swine, or cattle or carriage of any description”.
  • (14) We report here the immunolocalization of scrapie amyloid (PrP27-30) in plaques observed in brain tissues of Rocky Mountain elk (Cervus elaphus nelsoni) and hybrids of mule deer and white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) naturally affected with CWD.
  • (15) The transferrin system indicated that the foal was not born to the mare mule but was the offspring of one of the Shetland mares.
  • (16) Animal species included black-tailed deer (Odocoileus hemionus columbianus), mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus), sika deer (Cervus nippon nippon), fallow deer (Dama dama), and pronghorn antelope (Antilocapra americana).
  • (17) Fifteen coyotes (Canis latrans) shed sporulated sporocysts in their feces after eating freshly ground skeletal muscles from a mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus hemionus) infected with microscopic-sized cysts of Sarcocystis.
  • (18) Methoxyflurane inhalation was used a total of 58 times to anesthetize 23 hand-reared mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) fawns ranging from 25 to 85 days of age.
  • (19) We captured 10 free-ranging desert mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus crooki) (five males and five females) by net-gun from a helicopter and immobilized them with xylazine hydrochloride (HCl) (100 mg) and ketamine HCl (300 to 400 mg) injected intramuscularly.
  • (20) Experiments were conducted to study the germ cell of testes in the domestic drake (Tsaiya drake) and the mule drake.

Mute


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To cast off; to molt.
  • (v. t. & i.) To eject the contents of the bowels; -- said of birds.
  • (n.) The dung of birds.
  • (a.) Not speaking; uttering no sound; silent.
  • (a.) Incapable of speaking; dumb.
  • (a.) Not uttered; unpronounced; silent; also, produced by complete closure of the mouth organs which interrupt the passage of breath; -- said of certain letters. See 5th Mute, 2.
  • (a.) Not giving a ringing sound when struck; -- said of a metal.
  • (n.) One who does not speak, whether from physical inability, unwillingness, or other cause.
  • (n.) One who, from deafness, either congenital or from early life, is unable to use articulate language; a deaf-mute.
  • (n.) A person employed by undertakers at a funeral.
  • (n.) A person whose part in a play does not require him to speak.
  • (n.) Among the Turks, an officer or attendant who is selected for his place because he can not speak.
  • (n.) A letter which represents no sound; a silent letter; also, a close articulation; an element of speech formed by a position of the mouth organs which stops the passage of the breath; as, p, b, d, k, t.
  • (n.) A little utensil made of brass, ivory, or other material, so formed that it can be fixed in an erect position on the bridge of a violin, or similar instrument, in order to deaden or soften the tone.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Such conditions may influence the personality of offspring of deaf-mute people.
  • (2) No wonder public discussion of this most unexpected scientific development has so far been muted and respectful, waiting for the expert community that discovered the anomaly by accident – the Opera experiment at Gran Sasso was devised to isolate different varieties of neutrino, not to test Einstein – to work out what it all means, or doesn't.
  • (3) But its protests were far more muted than the complaints which saw off plans for drills there earlier this year.
  • (4) to produce speech for the mute, man-machine communication through speech in industry control, data processing systems and uses in audiological diagnostics.
  • (5) Ten months on, reactions are likely to be more muted.
  • (6) When it transpired that he had, if not in the way he might have wanted, he and his corner leapt in the air, before the realization of the ugly mood of the crowd muted the celebrations.
  • (7) Likewise, his criticism of Uganda's anti-homosexuality bill , which proposed the death penalty for same-sex acts, was muted.
  • (8) Nobody is sure what dangerous chemical imbalance this would create but the Fiver is convinced we'd all be dust come October or November, the earth scorched, with only three survivors roaming o'er the barren landscape: Govan's answer to King Lear, ranting into a hole in the ground; a mute, wild-eyed pundit, staring without blinking into a hole in the ground; and a tall, irritable figure standing in front of the pair of them, screaming in the style popularised by Klaus Kinski, demanding they take a look at his goddamn trouser arrangement, which he has balanced here on the platform of his hand for easy perusal, or to hell with them, for they are no better than pigs, worthless, spineless pigs.
  • (9) Additional studies revealed that the muted effects of PTHrP occurred via a PTH-independent mechanism.
  • (10) Winning a majority muted that speculation without eradicating the ambitions that fuelled it.
  • (11) Eight of 9 Mute swans (Cygnus olor) untied in the river acrossing the central part of Tottori-city died within the period of 40 days of summer in 1989.
  • (12) While calling for an end to the violence and democratic reform, western and other Arab countries have mostly muted their criticism of the killings and repression in Syria for fear of destabilising the country, which plays a strategic role across the Middle East.
  • (13) Another sci-fi film, Mute, which he describes as "my love letter to Blade Runner", is already in development and will be filmed in Berlin.
  • (14) It appeared, however, that she was muting her resistance to an expanded if limited ECB role, clearing the way for central bank and International Monetary Fund interventions that might take the edge off the immediate emergency and provide a breathing space for a more systemic political response.
  • (15) Indeed, the language of the ethic of care may give a voice to nurses who previously felt morally mute.
  • (16) Lysosomal enzyme secretion in response to thrombin treatment was partially reduced in muted platelets and markedly reduced in mocha platelets.
  • (17) Sandwood Bay in Scotland Photograph: Alamy Am Buachaille, a rocky sea stack, stood guard-like to one side, the giant grey slabs which cut into the sea were bathed in frothing waves, and the dim glow of the Cape Wrath lighthouse sent out a muted white beam beyond the cliffs to my right.
  • (18) Even in the wake of Newtown, the shift toward gun safety policies has been relatively muted .
  • (19) Violence, public and domestic, in peace and war, is muted by the modulated tones of civilised life.
  • (20) If I had been seeing red upon learning the dark projections for my health, my world was returning to its known colors, now muted with that knowledge that comes eventually for everyone: that the body is not the friend you thought was.