mootadj詞源 1/muːt/

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  rareSubject to discussion (originally at a moot); arguable, debatable, unsolved or impossible to solve.

  • […] :indeed we were obligd to hawl off rather in a hurry for the wind freshning a little we found ourselves in a bay which it was a moot point whether or not we could get out of: […]
  • [T]he uncertain, unsettled condition of this science of Cetology is in the very vestibule attested by the fact, that in some quarters it still remains a moot point whether a whale be a fish.
• 2

  lawBeing an exercise of thought; academic.

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  Having no practical consequence or relevance.

  • That point may make for a good discussion, but it is moot.
  • The question [whether certain poetry was present in the original Hebrew Psalms] in our own time is moot, since various considerations have made it certain that, of all the hazards presented by biblical translation, a dangerous excess of beauty is not one of them.

mootnoun詞源 1/muːt/

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  A moot court.

  • The pleading used in courts and chancery called moots.
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  A system of arbitration in many areas of Africa in which the primary goal is to settle a dispute and reintegrate adversaries into society rather than assess penalties.

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  A gathering of Rovers, usually in the form of a camp lasting two weeks.

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  lifestylepaganismreligionA social gathering of pagans, normally held in a public house.

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  historicalAn assembly (usually for decision-making in a locality).

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  businessmanufacturingshipbuildingA ring for gauging wooden pins.

mootverb詞源 2

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  To bring up as a subject for debate.

  • A number of other mergers of U.S. railroads are mooted, but the I.C.C. [Interstate Commerce Commission] has made it clear that its assent to the N.& W.-Virginian proposal, which was unopposed by competitors or stockholders, should not be taken as an indication that others will swiftly pass its scrutiny.
  • The general idea was first mooted a couple of years ago by Philip Hammond, then Britain’s chancellor of the exchequer, as a means of encouraging the EU to strike a friendly Brexit deal with the UK.
• 2

  To discuss or debate.

  • a problem which hardly has been mentioned, far less mooted, in this country
  • First a case is appointed to be mooted by certain young men, containing some doubtful controversy.
• 3

  To make or declare irrelevant.

• 4

  To argue or plead in a supposed case.

  • There is a difference between mooting and pleading; between fencing and fighting.
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  obsoleteregionalTo talk or speak.

  • In that mater now I will mute no moir.
• 6

  To say, utter, also insinuate.

mootnoun詞源 2

• 1

  A whisper, or an insinuation, also gossip or rumors.

• 2

  Talk.

mootnoun詞源 3/ˈmʊt/

• 1

  The vagina.

mootnoun詞源 4

• 1

  The stump of a tree; the roots and bottom end of a felled tree.

  • 'Ithin the woodlands, flow'ry gleäded, / By the woak tree's mossy moot

mootverb詞源 4

• 1

  To take root and begin to grow.

• 2

  To turn up soil or dig up roots, especially an animal with a snout.

  • "Zarch tha whole worl', vrom Guenever / To Squier Mules' ta Muddever, / Moot iv'ry brack about un.

mootnoun詞源 5

• 1

  A mutual follower on a social media platform.

  • Eid Mubarak to all my muslim moots out there
  • I just simply post them in my main Twitter account, then hoping that my moots will like and retweet them.