What's the difference between doat and moat?

Doat


Definition:

  • (v. i.) See Dote.

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Moat


Definition:

  • (n.) A deep trench around the rampart of a castle or other fortified place, sometimes filled with water; a ditch.
  • (v. t.) To surround with a moat.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Khao Soi Khun Yai, Sri Poom Road, next to Wat Kuan Kama, Old City, North Moat; meal for two £1.60-£3 Warorot evening market Facebook Twitter Pinterest You could pick other food markets (Sompet, Thanin, Chiang Mai Gate, Chang Phuak Gate) and be as deliriously sated, but the night-time street food at Warorot remains special to me.
  • (2) When you read of such sentences, remember that this is the same country in which – just a few years ago – over 300 parliamentarians were found to have claimed expenses to which they weren’t entitled; hundreds of thousands handed over to some of the richest people in the country for duck houses, moat repairs and heating their stables.
  • (3) Bars and cages are out; moats and discreet electric fences are in.
  • (4) He stepped down from contesting the 2010 election after it emerged he had claimed £2,200 for the cleaning of the moat at his 13th-century manor house.
  • (5) It is believed that they went across the small moat to the north of the centre, and got as far as the car park, where they shouted "Our world is not for sale" before being arrested.
  • (6) An Englishman's home is his castle, and that castle now includes a moat to keep the peasants out.
  • (7) He informed the housing association retrospectively, and Moat says it "reluctantly" gave permission for the sub-let to run its two-year term, which ends on 13 February.
  • (8) It sits, forlorn, in a moat of open space, like a lone domino.
  • (9) Douglas Hogg , who was ordered by the Tory party leadership to repay the £2,200 cost of clearing his moat, politely declined.
  • (10) Missing correspondence between MPs and Commons officials must have given most of the game away regarding Tory expense claims for moat cleaning and duck houses.
  • (11) Yet I recall influential voices – including in cabinet – arguing that rather than confront the problem (under IMF supervision), Britain should pull up the drawbridge behind the moat of the English Channel.
  • (12) Facebook, which still has sites eulogising murderer Raoul Moat and Holocaust deniers, said it drew the line on groups that attack others, a bold move considering the site's WikiLeaks page boasts more than 1.3 million supporters.
  • (13) We get lost on our way out and end up standing in the darkness, trapped by a maze of brutalist architecture and a large moat, laughing at our inability to navigate one of the most iconic structures in London.
  • (14) Minimal bodily adjustment was necessary for free foraging, whereas discrete food presentations on land (DFP-land) and in a moat (DFP-moat) promoted a gross reorientation of the animal's entire body.
  • (15) "Is it really true that a Romanian side once built a moat filled with crocodiles to stop the crowd from invading the pitch?"
  • (16) And they have dug a legal moat around the charmed circle, criminalising, for example, the squatting of empty buildings and most forms of peaceful protest.
  • (17) Activists tried a variety of methods to enter the conference centre, approaching in large groups from several directions and, at one point, sending several hundred people running with seven giant lilos to bridge a moat next to the centre.
  • (18) Elizabeth Austerberry, the chief executive of Moat, said: “These people are not going to go away.
  • (19) The couple can't understand why Moat won't allow them to continue sub-letting for a further period.
  • (20) When he wasn't writing, he was usually swimming, most often in his moat, or wallowing in the massive cast-iron bath that lived at the back of the house.

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