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| moot | |
| 1. adj. (Royaume-Uni) Discutable. | |
| 2. adj. (Amérique du Nord) Sans objet. | |
| 3. adj. (Amérique du Nord) Non pertinent, hypothétique. | |
| 4. n. (Histoire) (Archaïque) Assemblée, réunion. | |
| 5. v. (Soutenu) Débattre. | |
| Behind my back, he was always mooting it about that I wasn't fit for my position. | |
| 6. v. (Justice) (Amérique du Nord) Déclarer non pertinent. | |
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| moot | |
| 1. adj. (current in UK, rare in the US) Subject to discussion (originally at a moot); arguable, debatable, unsolved or impossible to solve. |  |
| 2. adj. (North America, chiefly legal) Being an exercise of thought; academic. | |
| Walter Crane and Lewis F. Day (1903) Moot Points: Friendly Disputes on Art and Industry Between Walter Crane and Lewis F. Day | |
| 3. adj. (North America) Having no practical impact or relevance. | |
| That point may make for a good discussion, but it is moot. | |
| 4. n. A moot court. | |
| 5. n. 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. | |
| 6. n. (Scouting) A gathering of Rovers, usually in the form of a camp lasting 2 weeks. | |
| 7. n. (paganism) A social gathering of pagans, normally held in a public house. | |
| 8. n. (historical) An assembly (usually for decision making in a locality). | |
| 9. n. (shipbuilding) A ring for gauging wooden pins. | |
| 10. v. To bring up as a subject for debate, to propose. | |
| 11. v. To discuss or debate. | |
| 12. v. (US) To make or declare irrelevant. | |
| 13. v. To argue or plead in a supposed case. | |
| 14. v. (regional, obsolete) To talk or speak. | |
| 'Tis no boot to moot again of it. | |
| 15. v. (Scotland, Northern England) To say, utter, also insinuate. | |
| He could not moot the words. | |
| 16. n. (Scotland, Northern England) A whisper, or an insinuation, also gossip or rumors. | |
| Na, I haven't heard a moot of it. | |
| Haven't you heard the moot, mate? There are going to be layoffs. They are going to shit-can the lot of us. | |
| 17. n. (Scotland, Northern England, rural) Talk. | |
| No, there's no moot of it on the streets. | |
| There's some moot of charges, but nothing concrete yet. | |
| 18. n. (Australia) Vagina. | |
| 19. n. (West Country) The stump of a tree; the roots and bottom end of a felled tree. | |
| 20. v. (West Country) To take root and begin to grow. | |
| 21. v. (West Country) To turn up soil or dig up roots, especially an animal with the snout. | |
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