(v. i.) To make the noise of a cow; to low; -- child's word.
(n.) The lowing of a cow.
Example Sentences:
(1) A longitudinal design was employed to test the main and stress-moderating effects of young adolescents' perceived family environment (Family Environment Scales; FES; Moos & Moos, 1981) on their depression, anxiety, and self-esteem.
(2) The collective critical moo-ing that greets the arrival of each new screen instalment of the Twilight series says more about how out of touch the film-reviewing fraternity is with a certain section of the movie-going audience than it does about the films themselves.
(3) The present investigation has examined the experience of 3 groups of nurses, working in spinal injuries, head injuries, and general medicine, using a standardised questionnaire devised by Moos.
(4) How would Moo sell business cards with your personal photos on them if they could be sued into oblivion should those photos turn out to infringe copyright?
(5) Anyone could imitate the twice-baked potatoes at the Peddler , or turn out a veal parmesan like the Villa Capri's, but there was no way a non-Chinese person could make moo shu pork , regardless of his or her training.
(6) Sulfate could be partially replaced by HPO(4) (2-) and HAsO(4) (2-) but not by BO(3) (-), MoO(4) (2-), NO(3) (-), or Cl(-); formate and MoO(4) (2-) inhibited iron oxidation.
(7) Based on differences in size, charge, antigenicity and sarcomere distribution, at least three different isoforms of this protein have been identified (Callaway & Bechtel, 1981; Yamamoto & Moos, 1983; Reinach et al., 1982; Dhoot et al., 1985).
(8) Call me a boring old class war moo, but I've watched several episodes of Made In Chelsea and at no point has Fenella Flumpinton-Ding-Dong's mother pointed her towards prostitution, whinnying, "Go on darling, get your pants off, help us out."
(9) Fifty-one subjects completed a modified version of the Moos Menstrual Distress Questionnaire daily for 8 weeks.
(10) Student teachers in yearlong mental health consultation groups completed Moos's Group Environment Scale (GES) and three semantic differential ratings of their satisfaction with the group experience.
(11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The 2007 Pyongyang summit between Kim Jong-il of North Korea and South Korea’s then president, Roh Moo-hyun, was the meeting between the two states’ leaders.
(12) They also completed the Moos Menstrual Distress Questionnaire (MDQ) once a month.
(13) Voluntary control of breathing is taught in Moo Duk Tkow in order to maximize force during striking, kicking, and blocking.
(14) The case was brought by Josh Moos and Hannah McClure, who were among a crowd of up to 5,000 held for five hours by police.
(15) The recording tickled him because it sounds nothing like a car, but exactly like the sound of a cow mooing.
(16) Thirty women completed alcohol, marihuana, and tobacco use diaries and Form T of the Moos Menstrual Distress Questionnaire (MDQ) every day for three consecutive menstrual cycles.
(17) If women can’t get free legal help when applying for an intervention order, how effective in protecting their safety will those orders be?” “We called on Coag to deliver robust, long-term and adequate resourcing for the national plan, and they didn’t,” chief executive of Domestic Violence New South Wales, Moo Baulch, said.
(18) Patients and staff subgroups differed somewhat in their relative emphases on certain program dimensions but, overall, the program still correlated highly with the therapeutic community cluster described by Moos (Spearman's rho: 0.660-0.809, all p values less than 0.05).
(19) Thirty women completed marihuana use diaries and Form T of the Moos Menstrual Distress Questionnaire (MDQ) every day for three consecutive menstrual cycles.
(20) The highest formate dehydrogenase activity was obtained with 2.5 x 10(-4) M Na(2)MoO(4) and 5 x 10(-5) Na(2)SeO(3).
Moot
Definition:
(v.) See 1st Mot.
(n.) A ring for gauging wooden pins.
(v. t.) To argue for and against; to debate; to discuss; to propose for discussion.
(v. t.) Specifically: To discuss by way of exercise; to argue for practice; to propound and discuss in a mock court.
(v. i.) To argue or plead in a supposed case.
(n.) A meeting for discussion and deliberation; esp., a meeting of the people of a village or district, in Anglo-Saxon times, for the discussion and settlement of matters of common interest; -- usually in composition; as, folk-moot.
(v.) A discussion or debate; especially, a discussion of fictitious causes by way of practice.
(a.) Subject, or open, to argument or discussion; undecided; debatable; mooted.
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Example Sentences:
(1) In his interim Digital Britain report published last month, Carter called for the creation of a "second institution ... with public purpose at its heart" to rival the BBC and mooted the merger of Channel 4 into a wider entity, potentially involving parts of BBC Worldwide, the corporation's commercial arm.
(2) The move, first mooted two months ago, has been instigated with Jol's blessing and the new man was quick to insist he had spent "many hours" talking with his compatriot prior to accepting the position, even if his arrival effectively dilutes the manager's powerbase at the club.
(3) The people were free, the dictator was dead, a mooted massacre had been averted – and all this without any obvious boots on the ground.
(4) The debate over whether to start with supply-side (investor) or demand-side (consumer) measures is a moot one, once confidence is at a low.
(5) A reason for Stepanenko’s extrication was also mooted – he and his family visited Crimea, annexed by Russia, in 2015 and did not hide the fact, protesting that it is simply part of Ukraine.
(6) The participation of the peritrophic membrane in a midgut barrier to infection of C. tarsalis, and many other mosquito species, by arboviruses is considered a moot point.
(7) UUP to leave Northern Ireland’s power-sharing executive Read more The revival of the independent monitoring commission (IMC), which had the task of examining the status of IRA and loyalist paramilitary ceasefires before devolution was restored nearly a decade ago, has been mooted as a way to rebuild the unionist community’s trust in republican goodwill and deter future ceasefire breaches.
(8) A rail link has long been mooted, with proposals released earlier this year for a project that would provide trains every 10 minutes to the airport, servicing an estimated six million people a year.
(9) Several other roles have been mooted for Brooks, though the company downplayed suggestions that she would run Storyful, a Dublin-based social media news agency started by the former RTÉ current affairs presenter Mark Little, or manage the Sun’s digital operations.
(10) But the project has been plagued by cost problems since it was first mooted under the last Labour government.
(11) Marriage equality could be a reality by end of the year, says George Brandis Read more The attorney general, George Brandis , told Sky News on Sunday the government’s mooted plebiscite on the issue would be held shortly after the 2016 election and before the end of the year.
(12) The most plausible explanation for Kennedy’s disinterest in the question is that he believes it will be moot because all of the state bans will fall.
(13) Separately, competition rules mean that business secretary Vince Cable must make a quasi-judicial ruling about whether to refer the mooted merger to the Competition Commission on grounds of a threat to national security.
(14) The mooted changes would be more likely to have broader effect.
(15) The protests, the product of rising tensions linked to mooted early elections, spending cuts and political upheavals in neighbouring Thailand and Singapore, echo events across the Muslim world.
(16) Michael Fallon was speaking up for millions up and down the country.” Peter Bone, MP for Wellingborough, said: “No 10 and Mr Fallon are saying the same thing, but he is reflecting more the words you hear on the doorstep.” Fallon’s comments followed Cameron’s pledge to make changes to the principle of freedom of movement of workers within the EU – a “red line” in a mooted renegotiation of the UK’s membership terms.
(17) One mooted solution is to cut the campaign period in half so that the vote would be held on 18 December.
(18) • Was the Saints’ victory this weekend really down to the factors I mooted above, or was it actually just because they got back to eating Popeyes chicken before the game ?
(19) In the wake of the Scottish referendum result , it was mooted in a BBC discussion that Britain has a “poverty of perspective” issue.
(20) The IMF describes the markets’ so-called “taper tantrum” earlier this year, after Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke mooted the idea of “tapering” QE, as a “mini stress test”, which helped to reveal how investors might respond as monetary policy returns to normal.