(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.
() of Mot
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.
Moto
Definition:
(n.) Movement; manner of movement; particularly, movement with increased rapidity; -- used especially in the phrase con moto, directing to a somewhat quicker movement; as, andante con moto, a little more rapidly than andante, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) • Motorola Moto G – the best budget smartphone for just £135
(2) As a gesture of goodwill, Moto has cancelled the charge, assuming you had fallen asleep.
(3) The Moto 360 features a round screen, metal case and leather band that looks more like a large high-end watch than a piece of technology.
(4) The fruits of two years of work, since the company's purchase of Motorola in 2011, will go on display this autumn, when it launches an entirely new range of handsets led by a flagship device named the Moto X.
(5) In the meantime, if the keenly priced Moto E performs similarly to the Moto G, being snappy and lasting a solid day on a single charge, it could sell very well, especially in the run-up to Christmas.
(6) Mario Aguilar from Gizmodo rates the LG G Watch , but only really has eyes for the Moto 360.
(7) Effects evoked in cervical moto- and interneurons by stimulation of lateral (LF) and ventral (VF) funicles at low thoracic level were studied in anaesthetized cats; degeneration of descending supraspinal fibres was provided by preliminary cord sections.
(8) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Moto 360 beside the Samsung Gear Live Photograph: Samuel Gibbs for the Guardian On the wrist it looks much more like a traditional watch than a smartwatch, about the size of a chunky man’s watch though much lighter and smaller than the Gear Live.
(9) It’s great that there are so many sporting events on here too, it brings a really nice atmosphere to the city when you’ve got Moto X or rugby fans here from all over the world for the weekend.
(10) Google paid $12.5bn for the Moto X and Moto G smartphone manufacturer in 2011.
(11) There was a strong and selective induction of Jun-IR in moto- and DRG neurons after peripheral nerve transection or crush, or colchicine- or vinblastine-induced block of axonal transport.
(12) Motorola is promising “all-day battery life” for the Moto E, and has fitted it with features such as Corning’s scratch-resistant Gorilla Glass 3 and P2i’s waterproof nano coating (which makes the phone splash-proof) that are found only on smartphones costing twice as much as the Moto E. As with the Moto G, Motorola will guarantee an upgrade to the next version of Android for the Moto E, something that cannot be said for most of the other smartphones in its class.
(13) A handful of men ride their motorcycles down impromptu ramps hoping they'll have a good day as moto-taxis, a growing solution to unemployment and to Caracas's traffic-clogged streets.
(14) The Moto-Stand is a motorised vehicle to propel paraplegics in the upright position.
(15) The Moto-Stand was found to be superior for kitchen activities, especially when handling hot objects and reaching objects at different levels.
(16) I stopped to ask the police what to do and was advised to pull into the nearest service station, which was Moto at Scotch Corner, and wait until it was safe to head home.
(17) GR, Glasgow This isn't the first time Moto has featured in this column.
(18) Motorola launched yet another low-price smartphone on Tuesday, going head to head with lesser known Chinese and South Korean manufacturers with its £89 Moto E handset.
(19) Incorporation of 4,5-3H leucine into neurons of locus ceruleus, neurons of the terminal principal nucleus of the trigeminal nerve and spinal moto-neurons in stressed rats (S group), animals, stressed after a single injection of diazepam (DS group), and controls (C group) was studied by quantitative autoradiography.
(20) Woodside kept the Moto X phone he said he was carrying in his pocket hidden, but said the device would be able to perform tricks such as launching the camera app if it was removed from a pocket and held up to take a photograph.