Definizione monolingua

moot

moot (third-person singular simple present moots, present participle mooting, simple past and past participle mooted)

1. To bring up as a subject for debate, to propose.
2. To discuss or debate.
3. (US) To make or declare irrelevant.

moot (plural moots)

1. A moot court.
2. 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.
3. (Scouting) A gathering of Rovers (18 - 26 year-old Scouts). Usually a camp lasting 2 weeks.
4. (paganism) A social gathering of pagans, normally held in a public house.
5. (historical) An assembly (usually for decision making in a locality). [from the 12th c.]

moot (comparative more moot, superlative most moot)

1. (UK, or US dated) Subject to discussion (originally at a moot); arguable, debatable, unsolved or impossible to solve.
   • 1770, Joseph Banks, The Endeavour Journal of Sir Joseph Banks, January 4, 1770 (published 1962),

     […] :indeed we were obligd to hawl off rather in a hurry for the wind freshning a little we found ourselves in a bay which it was a moot point whether or not we could get out of: […]

   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, Chapter 32,

     [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.

2. (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.

3. (North America, chiefly law) 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

Definizione dizionario moot

controverso

dibattere

discutere

discutibile

Altri significati:

To discuss or debate.

(US) To make or declare irrelevant.

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

to bring up as a subject for debate, to propose

(Australian) Vagina.

(North America, chiefly law) Being an exercise of thought; academic.

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 a camp lasting 2 weeks.

Having no practical importance

to discuss or debate

(North America) Having no practical impact or relevance.

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

Subject to discussion

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

A moot court.

To bring up as a subject for debate, to propose.