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Moat vs Mort - What's the difference?

moat | mort |

As nouns the difference between moat and mort

is that moat is while mort is roach; a small fish.

moat

English

(wikipedia moat)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A deep, wide defensive ditch, normally filled with water, surrounding a fortified habitation.
  • An aspect of a business which makes it more "defensible" from competitors, either because of the nature of its products, services, franchise or other reason.

    • Synonyms

    * fosse

    See also

    * cunette

    Anagrams

    * * * * * ----

    mort

    English

    Etymology 1

    (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Death; especially, the death of game in hunting.
  • A note sounded on a horn at the death of a deer.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
    • The sportsman then sounded a treble mort .
  • (UK, Scotland, dialect) The skin of a sheep or lamb that has died of disease.
    • Derived terms
    * mort cloth * mort stone

    Etymology 2

    Compare Icelandic (margt), neuter of (margr), "many".

    Noun

  • A great quantity or number.
  • * Charles Dickens
    • There was a mort of merrymaking.

    Etymology 3

    Shortening of (mortal).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (internet, informal) A player in a multi-user dungeon who does not have special administrator privileges and whose character can be killed.
    • Antonyms
    * immort English clippings

    Etymology 4

    Uncertain.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A three-year-old salmon.

    • Etymology 5

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (slang, archaic) A woman; a female.
  • * Ben Jonson
    • Male gypsies all, not a mort among them.

    Anagrams

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