different between squelch vs muffle

English

Etymology

Unknown. Perhaps a blend of squash +? quell +? quench. Compare also English squolsh, English squoosh.

Pronunciation

• (UK, General American) IPA^(key): /?skw?lt?/
• Rhymes: -?lt?

Verb

squelch (third-person singular simple present squelches, present participle squelching, simple past and past participle squelched)

1. (transitive, US) to halt, stop, eliminate, stamp out, or put down, often suddenly or by force

   Even the king’s announcement could not squelch the rumors.

   • Oh 'twas your luck and mine to be squelched.

   • If you deceive us you will be squelched.

2. (transitive, radio technology) to suppress the unwanted hiss or static between received transmissions by adjusting a threshold level for signal strength, below which the signal is suppressed by applying a gain of zero, and above which a positive (and linear from zero) gain is applied.
3. (intransitive, Britain) to make a sucking, splashing noise as when walking on muddy ground

   The mud squelched underfoot; it had been raining all night.
4. (intransitive, Britain) to walk or step through a substance such as mud

   The mud was thick and sticky underfoot, but we squelched through it nonetheless.

Synonyms

• (to halt): quash

Translations

Noun

squelch (countable and uncountable, plural squelches)

1. (countable) A squelching sound.
2. (radio technology) The suppression of the unwanted hiss or static between received transmissions by adjusting the gain of the receiver.
3. (countable, dated) A heavy blow or fall.
4. (countable, music) A kind of electronic beat used in acid house and related music genres.
   • 1998, Colin Larkin, The Virgin Encyclopedia of Dance Music (page 91)

     Through a process of experimentation the 'acid squelch' sound came forth, which was recorded and passed on to DJ Ron Hardy to play at his Warehouse club.

Derived terms

• break squelch
• squelchy

Translations

English

Etymology

From Middle English muflen (“to muffle”), aphetic alteration of Anglo-Norman amoufler, from Old French enmoufler (“to wrap up, muffle”), from moufle (“mitten”), from Medieval Latin muffula (“a muff”), of Germanic origin (—first recorded in the Capitulary of Aachen in 817 C.E.), from Frankish *muffël (“a muff, wrap, envelope”) from *mauwa (“sleeve, wrap”) (from Proto-Germanic *maww? (“sleeve”)) + *vël (“skin, hide”) (from Proto-Germanic *fell? (“skin, film, fleece”). Alternate etymology traces the Medieval Latin word to Frankish *molfell (“soft garment made of hide”) from *mol (“softened, forworn”) (akin to Old High German molaw?n (“to soften”), Middle High German molwic (“soft”), English mulch) + *fell (“hide, skin”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?fl?/
• Rhymes: -?f?l

Noun

muffle (plural muffles)

1. Anything that mutes or deadens sound.
2. A warm piece of clothing for the hands.
3. (slang, archaic) A boxing glove.
4. A kiln or furnace, often electric, with no direct flames (a muffle furnace)
5. The bare end of the nose between the nostrils, especially in ruminants.
6. A machine with two pulleys to hoist load by spinning wheels, polyspast, block and tackle.

Translations

Verb

muffle (third-person singular simple present muffles, present participle muffling, simple past and past participle muffled)

1. (transitive) To wrap (a person, face etc.) in fabric or another covering, for warmth or protection; often with up.

   • The face lies muffled up within the garment.

   • He muffled with a cloud his mournful eyes.

   • 1712, John Arbuthnot, The History of John Bull

     muffled up in darkness and superstition

2. (transitive) To wrap up or cover (a source of noise) in order to deaden the sound.

   to muffle the strings of a drum, or that part of an oar which rests in the rowlock

3. (transitive) To mute or deaden (a sound etc.).
   • 1999, George RR Martin, A Clash of Kings, Bantam 2011, p. 397:

     The singer's voice was muffled by the thick walls, yet Tyrion knew the verse.

4. (intransitive, dated) To speak indistinctly, or without clear articulation.
5. (transitive, dated) To prevent seeing, or hearing, or speaking, by wraps bound about the head; to blindfold; to deafen.

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