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moot | muse |

As nouns the difference between moot and muse

is that moot is size, measure while muse is .

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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    muse

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) muse, from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (s)
  • A source of inspiration.
  • (archaic) A poet; a bard.
    • (Milton)
    Usage notes
    The plural musae'' can also be found, though it is much rarer than ''muses .
    Related terms
    * museum * music

    Etymology 2

    First attested in 1340. From (etyl) muser.

    Verb

    (mus)
  • To become lost in thought, to ponder.
  • To say (something) with due consideration or thought.
  • * (seeCites)
  • To think on; to meditate on.
  • * (rfdate) Thomson
    • Come, then, expressive Silence, muse his praise.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=David Simpson
    • , volume=188, issue=26, page=36, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Fantasy of navigation , passage=It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: […];  […]; or perhaps to muse on the irrelevance of the borders that separate nation states and keep people from understanding their shared environment.}}
  • To wonder at.
    • (Shakespeare)
    Synonyms
    * See also
    Related terms
    * muser * musing

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act of musing; a period of thoughtfulness.
  • * 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , I.xii:
    • still he sate long time astonished / As in great muse , ne word to creature spake.
  • * 1978 , (Lawrence Durrell), Livia , Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), p. 416:
    • He fell into a muse and pulled his upper lip.

    Etymology 3

    From (etyl) musse. See muset.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A gap or hole in a hedge, fence, etc. through which a wild animal is accustomed to pass; a muset.
    • Find a hare without a muse . (old proverb)

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