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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: muffle (0.00879 detik)
Found 4 items, similar to muffle.
English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak) Definition: muffle meredam
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: muffle membekap, meredam, meredamkan
English → English (WordNet) Definition: muffle muffle n : a kiln with an inner chamber for firing things at a low temperature muffle v 1: conceal or hide; “smother a yawn”; “muffle one's anger”; “strangle a yawn” [syn: smother, stifle, strangle, repress] 2: deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping [syn: mute, dull, damp, dampen, tone down]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Muffle Muffle \Muf"fle\ (m[u^]f"f'l), n. The bare end of the nose between the nostrils; -- used esp. of ruminants. [1913 Webster] Muffle \Muf"fle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Muffled; p. pr. & vb. n. Muffling.] [Cf. F. moufle a mitten, LL. muffula, OD. moffel a muff. See Muff.] 1. To wrap up in something that conceals or protects; to wrap, as the face and neck, in thick and disguising folds; hence, to conceal or cover the face of; to envelop; to inclose; -- often with up. --South. [1913 Webster] The face lies muffled up within the garment. --Addison. [1913 Webster] He muffled with a cloud his mournful eyes. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] Muffled up in darkness and superstition. --Arbuthnot. [1913 Webster] 2. To prevent seeing, or hearing, or speaking, by wraps bound about the head; to blindfold; to deafen. [1913 Webster] 3. To wrap or fit with something that dulls or deadens the sound of; as, to muffle the strings of a drum, or that part of an oar which rests in the rowlock; to muffle the exhaust of a motor vehicle. [1913 Webster] Muffle \Muf"fle\, v. i. [Cf. F. maffle, mumble, D. moffelen.] To speak indistinctly, or without clear articulation. [1913 Webster] Muffle \Muf"fle\, n. [F. moufle, prop., a mitten, from the resemblance in shape. See Muffle, v. t., Muff.] 1. Anything with which another thing, as an oar or drum, is muffled; also, a boxing glove; a muff. [1913 Webster] 2. (Metal.) An earthenware compartment or oven, often shaped like a half cylinder, used in furnaces to protect objects heated from the direct action of the fire, as in scorification of ores, cupellation of ore buttons, etc. [1913 Webster] 3. (Ceramics) A small oven for baking and fixing the colors of painted or printed pottery, without exposing the pottery to the flames of the furnace or kiln. [1913 Webster] 4. A pulley block containing several sheaves. --Knight. [1913 Webster]

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