Moot vs Froth - What's the difference?

moot | froth |

As nouns the difference between moot and froth

is that moot is size, measure while froth is foam.

As a verb froth is

to create froth in.

moot

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) moot, mot, . Related to (l).

Adjective

(en adjective)

Subject to discussion (originally at a ); arguable, debatable, unsolved or impossible to solve.

* 1770 , (Joseph Banks), The (published 1962):

* 1851 , (Herman Melville), :

[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.

* 2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 477:

The extent to which these Parisian radicals ‘represented’ the French people as a whole was very moot .

(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

(North America) Having no practical impact or relevance.

That point may make for a good discussion, but it is moot .

* 2007 , Paul Mankowski, " The Languages of Biblical Translation", Adoremus Bulletin , Vol. 13, No. 4,

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.

Synonyms

* (without relevance) irrelevant, obsolete (if it was previously relevant)

Derived terms

* moot point * moot court

Noun

(en noun)
A moot court.

* Sir T. Elyot

The pleading used in courts and chancery called moots .

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.

(Scouting) A gathering of Rovers (18–26 year-old Scouts), usually in the form of a camp lasting 2 weeks.

(paganism) A social gathering of pagans, normally held in a public house.

(historical) An assembly (usually for decision making in a locality).

(shipbuilding) A ring for gauging wooden pins.

Derived terms

* folkmoot * gemoot

Verb

(en verb)
To bring up as a subject for debate, to propose.

To discuss or debate.

* Sir W. Hamilton

a problem which hardly has been mentioned, much less mooted , in this country

* Sir T. Elyot

First a case is appointed to be mooted by certain young men, containing some doubtful controversy.

(US) To make or declare irrelevant.

To argue or plead in a supposed case.

* Ben Jonson

There is a difference between mooting and pleading; between fencing and fighting.

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Etymology 2

Origin unknown.

Noun

(en noun)
(Australia) Vagina.

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froth
English

Noun

foam

Froth is a very important feature of many types of coffee.
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(figuratively) unimportant events or actions; drivel

* L'Estrange

It was a long speech, but all froth .

Thousands of African children die each day: why do the newspapers continue to discuss unnecessary showbiz froth ?

Derived terms
* froth fly * froth insect * froth spit * froth worm
Verb
(en verb)
To create froth in.

I like to froth my coffee for ten seconds exactly.

To bubble.

The chemical frothed up when I added the acid.

To spit, vent, or eject, as froth.

* Dryden

He froths treason at his mouth.

* Tennyson

Is your spleen frothed out, or have ye more?

To cover with froth.

A horse froths his chain.

Derived terms
* frothy * froth at the mouth
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