unmutev.
/(ˌ)ʌnˈmjuːt/, U.S. /ˌənˈmjut/ 1. transitive. Music. To cause (a musical instrument) not to be muted. Also intransitive: (of a musical instrument) to cease to be muted.
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1811 Monthly Mag. Mar. 134/2 At the fiat, ‘Let there be light!’ the instruments are unmuted, and the audience is lost in the refulgence of harmony.
1919 Times 28 Feb. 17 In the Adagio the main duty of the piano is to provide cover under which the strings may mute and unmute.
1983 N. Del Mar Anat. of Orchestra (new ed.) i. 125 Rather than lose the dramatic hush and immobility at the all-important moment of transition it is often preferable to allow the players..to unmute only after the new movement has been launched.
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a. transitive. Originally Electronics. To stop suppressing the output of (a loudspeaker or other circuit component); to turn on the sound of (a television, video, etc.), esp. after having temporarily turned it off; to turn on (a microphone or the audio on a computer, phone, etc.), esp. after having temporarily turned it off. Also with the sound as object.
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1963 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 31 Dec. 1202/1 Switch device..for alternately muting and unmuting the sound from said receiver from any selected volume level.
1991 OnSat 13 Jan. 123/2 Stereo sound pairs turn on just as if they were being unmuted.
2018 New Yorker 12 Nov. 60/3 Senator Lindsey Graham came on the screen, and Costello unmuted the sound.
2021 J. Chen Engaging Virtual Meetings i. i. 11 When they return, they unmute their microphone and turn on their camera.
b. transitive. To turn on the sound of (a person or a person's voice) on a phone, videoconferencing software, etc. Also reflexive: to turn on (one's own microphone) on a phone, videoconferencing software, etc.
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1997 PR Newswire (Nexis) 6 Nov. With CONTEXWeb, the remote user can..mute or unmute conference participants.
2002 FD Wire (Nexis) 22 Oct. If you're joining us today on a speakerphone, please unmute yourself.
2020 N.Y. Times Mag. 13 Sept. 43 Children [in online lessons] are not allowed to talk on Zoom freely. Teachers have to choose to unmute them.
c. transitive. In electronic communications: to turn on (notifications of updates or messages, especially from a particular user or group); (on social media) to reverse the setting that prevents (posts by a user whom one follows) from appearing in one's feed, esp. after having temporarily turned them off. Also with the user as object.
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2009 @benkoe 16 Nov. in twitter.com (accessed 6 Jan. 2021) @ReneeCreer and I want a quick way to mute/unmute notifications without shutting down the app.
2014 C. J. Johnston & G. Hart-Davis My Samsung Galaxy Note 3 iv. 135 You can unmute conversations by..opening the muted conversation,..and then choosing Move to Inbox.
2019 @CNRHLY 18 Apr. in twitter.com (accessed 15 Jan. 2021) Fair play to you for putting up with him, I can only do small doses and I only recently unmuted him on twitter.
2020 Newstex Blogs (Nexis) 10 Apr. Once you've unmuted a user's posts, you'll see their content in your Instagram feed again.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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