Synonymer

Uttal

  • Uttal:
  • UttalUS:
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Definitioner

Adjektiv

  1. (current in the UK, rare in the US) Subject to discussion (originally at a moot); arguable, debatable, unsolved or impossible to solve.
  2. (North America chiefly legal) Being an exercise of thought; academic.
  3. (North America) Having no practical impact or relevance.

Substantiv

  1. A moot court.
  2. (Australia) Vagina.
  3. 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.
  4. (Scouting) A gathering of Rovers (18–26 year-old Scouts), usually in the form of a camp lasting 2 weeks.
  5. (paganism) A social gathering of pagans, normally held in a public house.
  6. (historical) An assembly (usually for decision making in a locality).
  7. (shipbuilding) A ring for gauging wooden pins.

Verb

  1. To bring up as a subject for debate, to propose.
  2. To discuss or debate.
  3. (US) To make or declare irrelevant.
  4. To argue or plead in a supposed case.

Exempel

  • [...]: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.

Böjningsformer

PerfektparticipmootedImperfektmooted
PresensparticipmootingPluralmoots
Komparativmore mootSuperlativmost moot
Tredje person singular indicativ presensmoots

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