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Toted vs Moted - What's the difference?

toted | moted |

As a verb toted

is past tense of tote.

As an adjective moted is

filled with motes, or fine floating dust.

toted

English

Verb

(head)
  • (tote)

    • tote

    English

    (wikipedia tote)

    Etymology 1

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A bag, specifically a tote bag.
  • A heavy burden.

    • Verb

    (tot)
  • To carry or bear.
  • *, chapter=8
    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=We toted in the wood and got the fire going nice and comfortable. Lord James still set in one of the chairs and Applegate had cabbaged the other and was hugging the stove.}}

    Etymology 2

    Shortening of (total), with e to distinguish from (tot) in writing

    Alternative forms

    * tot

    Verb

    (tot)
  • To add up; to calculate a total.

    • Etymology 3

    Shortening of (totalizator)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (British) A pari-mutuel machine; a totalizator
  • *1892 , Banjo Paterson,
  • *:He was a humorist of note and keen at repartee,
  • *:He laid the odds and kept a "tote ", whatever that may be,

    • moted

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Filled with motes, or fine floating dust.
    • Moted sunbeams. — Tennyson.
    (Webster 1913) ---- ==Volapük==

    Noun

    (vo-noun)
  • birth

    • Declension

    (vo-decl-noun)