Mote
[məʊt]
解释:
(-) of Mot
(-) of Mot
(pres. subj.) of Mot
(v.) See 1st Mot.
(n.) A meeting of persons for discussion; as, a wardmote in the city of London.
(n.) A body of persons who meet for discussion, esp. about the management of affairs; as, a folkmote.
(n.) A place of meeting for discussion.
(n.) The flourish sounded on a horn by a huntsman. See Mot, n., 3, and Mort.
(n.) A small particle, as of floating dust; anything proverbially small; a speck.
编辑:默里
同义词及近义词:
n. Spot, speck, mite, particle, atom, corpuscle.
整理:韦尔登
解释:
n. a particle of dust: a speck: a stain or blemish: anything very small.—adjs. Mōt′ed Mot′ty containing motes.
n. an archaism for might or must.
编辑:洛拉
例句:
- The depths of the stars and the minutest mote that floats in the sun beam reflect the glory of those inventions. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- In the beginning of dinner, the party being small and the room still, these motes from the mass of a magistrate's mind fell too noticeably. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- It was concluded then, and so ascertained, that the torulae in the plant proceeded from the torulae in the atmosphere, from gay motes that people the sunbeams. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
编辑:韦德