Moot

[muːt] or [mut]

Definition

(noun.) a hypothetical case that law students argue as an exercise; 'he organized the weekly moot'.

(adj.) of no legal significance (as having been previously decided) .

Editor: Ned--From WordNet

Definition

(v.) See 1st Mot.

(n.) A ring for gauging wooden pins.

(v. t.) To argue for and against; to debate; to discuss; to propose for discussion.

(v. t.) Specifically: To discuss by way of exercise; to argue for practice; to propound and discuss in a mock court.

(v. i.) To argue or plead in a supposed case.

(n.) A meeting for discussion and deliberation; esp., a meeting of the people of a village or district, in Anglo-Saxon times, for the discussion and settlement of matters of common interest; -- usually in composition; as, folk-moot.

(v.) A discussion or debate; especially, a discussion of fictitious causes by way of practice.

(a.) Subject, or open, to argument or discussion; undecided; debatable; mooted.

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Editor: Monica

Synonyms and Synonymous

v. a. Debate, discuss, dispute, argue.

a. Debatable, disputable, disputed, unsettled, in question.

Checker: Olivier

Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Agitate, discuss, ventilate, argue

ANT:Suppress, stifle, burke, hush, shelve

Typed by Allan

Definition

v.t. to propose for discussion: to discuss: argue for practice.—adj. discussed or debated.—n. in early English history the meeting of the assembled freemen or their representatives to regulate the affairs of the village or tun the hundred or the kingdom—village- or town-moot hundred-moot folk-moot.—adj. Moot′able that can be mooted or debated.—ns. Moot′-case Moot′-point a case point or question to be mooted or debated: an unsettled question; Moot′-court -hall a meeting or court for arguing supposed cases; Moot′-hill a hill of meeting on which the moot was held.

Edited by Erna