meaning of the word moot
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moot Definition of moot. 1 : a deliberative assembly primarily for the administration of justice; especially : one held by the freemen of an Anglo-Saxon community.
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Membean Word Root Of the Day The Greek root word *crat* means rule, and the English suffix *-cracy* means rule by. This Greek root and suffix is the word origin of a good number of English vocabulary words, including the familiar terms demo[*crat*] and demo[*cracy*].
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wording mot juste - the appropriate word or expression. verbalisation, verbalization - the words that are spoken in the activity of verbalization. noun phraseology, words, language, phrasing, terminology, choice of words, mode of expression The wording is so vague that no-one knows what it actually means.
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- Word Origin and History for trot Expand. n. c.1300, from Old French trot (12c.), from troter to trot, to go, from Frankish *trotton (cf. Old High German trotton to tread), from a variant of the Germanic base of tread (v.). The trots diarrhea is recorded from 1808 (cf. the runs).
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Definitions &Translations Princeton's WordNet(5.00 / 2 votes)Rate this definition: 1  quarrel, wrangle, row, words, run-in, dustup(noun) an angry dispute. 2  quarrel(verb) an arrow that is shot from a crossbow; has a head with four edges. 3  quarrel, dispute, scrap, argufy, altercate(verb) have a disagreement over something.
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mope A feeling or spell of dismally low spirits.Used in plural: blues, dejection, depression, despondence, despondency, doldrums, dolefulness, downheartedness, dumps, dysphoria, funk, gloom, glumness, heavy-heartedness, melancholy, mournfulness, sadness, unhappiness.
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- For people named Bigot and other meanings, see Bigot (disambiguation) . In English the word bigot refers to a person whose habitual state of mind includes an obstinate, irrational, or unfair intolerance of ideas, opinions, or beliefs that differ from their own, and intolerance of the people who hold them.ccording to Henry Bradley, the meaning of bigot in the Old French was detested foreigner, heretic, and it is supposed that the word was a corruption of Visigot. To the Catholic Franks, the Arian Visigoths of Southern France and Spain were the objects of bitter hatred, both on religious and worldly grounds.
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mote 1 particle of dust, Old English mot, of unknown origin; perhaps related to Dutch mot dust from turf, sawdust, grit, Norwegian mutt speck, mote, splinter, chip.. Many references are to Matt. vii:3.
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- groats (grōts) pl.n. (used with a sing. or pl. verb) Hulled grain, such as oats, barley, or buckwheat. [Middle English grotes, from Old English grotan.] groats (ɡrəʊts) pl n. 1. (Cookery) the hulled and crushed grain of oats, wheat, or certain other cereals. 2. (Cookery) the parts of oat kernels used as food [Old English grot particle; related to grota fragment, as in meregrota pearl; see grit, grout] groats (groʊts) n. (used with a sing. or pl. v.) 1. hulled, cracked grain, as wheat or oats. 2.
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- woot. 1  Expressing happiness or approval. 2  Misspelling of hoot. Misspelling of w00t.  3 Oxford adds woot! to dictionary, August 2011.
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moot adj. 1) unsettled, open to argument, or debatable, specifically about a legal question which has not been determined by any decision of any court. 2) an issue only of academic interest. (See: moot point, moot court)
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Moot court Moot court. Moot court is an extracurricular activity at many law schools in which participants take part in simulated court proceedings, usually involving drafting memorials or memoranda and participating in oral argument. In most countries, the phrase moot court may be shortened to simply moot or mooting.
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mourn mourn. 1  to feel or express sorrow; lament; grieve. 2  to grieve for someone who has died; specif., to manifest the conventional signs of such grief, as by wearing black clothing or a mourning band. 3  to make the low, continuous sound of a dove.
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moot Examples of moot in a sentence. 1  And it was they, not the British, who slapped down any suggestion of democratic reform when it was quietly mooted by British colonial officers in the 1950s. … 2  he looked for an easy way out. 3  And then the word comes of Ted's inoperable pancreatic cancer, and death moots the long conflict.
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mope moped. 1  intransitive verb. 2  1 archaic : to act in a dazed or stupid manner. 3  2 : to give oneself up to brooding : become listless or dejected I was feeling depressed and just moped around all day. 4  3 : to move slowly or aimlessly : dawdle the little woman does mope along in traffic — Paul Jones.
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- We found 39 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word hoot: Click on the first link on a line below to go directly to a page where hoot is defined. 1  hoot: Oxford Dictionaries [home, info]  hoot, hoot, hoot: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
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Definition of mook mook. 1  Seems to be a New York City synonym for hood or crook.. 2  Baltimore MD Used on Homicide; Life on the streets by Detective Lewis. 3  An insignificant, contemptible person--usually male.  an insignificant or contemptible 1  person. A large, clumsy person; 2  oaf. an oaf, a loud boor, a witlessly enthusiastic fan of insignificant things or events.
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Membean Word Root Of the Day Quick Summary. The Latin root word mot means “move.” This Latin root is the word origin of a large number of English vocabulary words, including mot ivation, re mot e, and e mot ion. The root word mot is easily recalled through the word mot ion, for mot ion is nothing but “moving” of some kind.
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hoot ▸ noun: a loud raucous cry (as of an owl) ▸ noun: a cry or noise made to express displeasure or contempt. ▸ noun: something of little value. ▸ verb: to utter a loud clamorous shout (The toughs and blades of the city hoot and bang their drums, drink arak, play dice, and dance)
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moot point Noun[edit] moot point ‎(plural moot points) An issue that is subject to, or open for, discussion or debate, to which no satisfactory answer is found; originally, one to be definitively determined by an assembly of the people.
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Definitions &Translations Moot(noun) a ring for gauging wooden pins. Moot(verb) to argue for and against; to debate; to discuss; to propose for discussion. Moot(verb) specifically: To discuss by way of exercise; to argue for practice; to propound and discuss in a mock court.
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- Scot. 1  safe to deal with, invest in, or work at (usually used with a negative). 2  gentle; careful; steady. 3  snug; cozy; comfortable.  pleasing; 1  attractive. Archaic. having supernatural or occult powers.
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- Definition of mot. 1  exclamation, pronounced Moe as in the guy that has a bar on the Simpsons, usually used in agreement. From the French, meaning word.Person 1: That test sucked! Person 2: Mot!  See more words with the same meaning: terms with foreign origin (list of).
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fracture Full Definition of FRACTURE. 1. : the result of fracturing: break. 2. a: the act or process of breaking or the state of being broken; especially: the breaking of hard tissue (as bone). 3. : the general appearance of a freshly broken surface of a mineral.See fracture defined for English-language learners.efinition of FRACTURE for Kids. The Latin word frangere, meaning “ to break, ” and its form fractus give us the roots frag and fract. Words from the Latin frangere have something to do with breaking. Something frag ile is easily broken.
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- Back in the days of Middle English, the Anglo-French noun bruit, meaning clamor or noise, rattled into English. Soon English speakers were also using it to mean report or rumor (it applied especially to favorable reports).
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oxymoron noun. A rhetorical figure in which incongruous or contradictory terms are combined, as in a deafening silence and a mournful optimist. Greek oxumōron, an expression that is witty because paradoxical, from neuter of oxumōros, pointedly foolish: oxus, sharp, keen; see oxygen + mōros, dull, foolish. Origin of oxymoron. Related Forms: 1  ox′y·mo·ron′ic.