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Määritelmät
Adjektiivit
- (current in UK, rare in the US) Subject to discussion (originally at a moot); arguable, debatable, unsolved or impossible to solve.
- (Canada, US, chiefly law) Being an exercise of thought; academic.
- (Canada, US) Having no practical consequence or relevance.
Substantiivit
- (Internet slang, endearing) A mutual follower on a social media platform.
- A moot court.
- (West Country) The stump of a tree; the roots and bottom end of a felled tree.
- (Australia) The vagina.
- (Scotland, Northern England) A whisper, or an insinuation, also gossip or rumors.
- (Scotland, Northern England, rustic) Talk.
- 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.
- (scouting) A gathering of Rovers, usually in the form of a camp lasting two weeks.
- (paganism) A social gathering of pagans, normally held in a public house.
- (historical) An assembly (usually for decision-making in a locality).
- (shipbuilding) A ring for gauging wooden pins.
Verbit
- (West Country) To take root and begin to grow.
- To bring up as a subject for debate.
- (West Country) To turn up soil or dig up roots, especially an animal with a snout.
- To discuss or debate.
- (US) To make or declare irrelevant.
- To argue or plead in a supposed case.
- (regional, obsolete) To talk or speak.
- (Scotland, Northern England) To say, utter, also insinuate.
Esimerkit
- [...]: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.
- The extent to which these Parisian radicals ‘represented’ the French people as a whole was very moot.
- Walter Crane and Lewis F. Day (1903) Moot Points: Friendly Disputes on Art and Industry Between Walter Crane and Lewis F. Day
- 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.
- The pleading used in courts and chancery called moots.
- a problem which hardly has been mentioned, much less mooted, in this country
- First a case is appointed to be mooted by certain young men, containing some doubtful controversy.
- There is a difference between mooting and pleading; between fencing and fighting.
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