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Word definitions for mote in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES motes of dust/dust motes literary (= small pieces of dust ) ▪ Glittering motes of dust hung in the sunlight. motes of dust/dust motes literary (= small pieces of dust ) ▪ Glittering motes of dust hung in the sunlight. ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Moot \Moot\, n. [AS. m[=o]t, gem[=o]t, a meeting; -- usually in comp.] [Written also mote .] 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 ...
Usage examples of mote.
The Mote engineers made two widgets do one job, all right, but the second widget does two other jobs, and some of the supports are also bimetallic thermostats and thermoelectric generators all in one.
When he looked back at Buglet, she was wrapped in a dust-devil of whirling golden motes.
He was called Turvel, and was blatantly frightened of Mote, leaning so far away from Alex that occasionally Coocoo would attempt to bite his arm.
As soon as the cushats began to fly from the woods to the fields, and the hillsides were streaked with grey motes of light, Big Harry and his son rowed into the cove, and then Little Harry went to catch the old mare on the moor.
Beyond the boundaries of her place lay the cutlery to be shared: the suckett forks, condiment spoons, Sugar shells, mote spoons, pickle forks, butter picks, nut picks, cheese scoops, horseradish spoons, and various others, not to be confused with the soup ladles, fish slicers, jelly servers, snuff spoons, and wick scissors to be wielded by the servants.
I said, lying against him and gazing up so he might better see the scarlet mote in my eye.
This was a messy Eater, gobbling up satellites and leaving twinkling motes.
And yet more drops dissolved, bringing to the shadowed mote quicksilver knowledge of life, all life, and the death of nescience in an iridescent implosion of knowledge.
Dain grinned a little to himself, and from the corner of his eye watched the dust motes dancing in the sunlight that streamed down through the oculus window overhead.
Tiny motes of dust danced in the sunlight pouring down through the oculus overhead.
Paulus Thwait had no inkling of the role he would play as a small but influential mote in the current that makes up the River of Time.
To the true Ruellian, to the devoted adherents of Tua Chen, everything is moment and flux, whirling motes of dust, for me, as well as for you.
On such a golden evening forth there floats, Between the grave earth and the glowing sky In the clear air, unvexed with hazy motes, The mystic-winged and flickering butterfly, A human soul, that drifts at liberty, Ah!
Movements of precious metals and ambulatory currency spiked metropolitan areas, while consumer spending showed up as gangs of small people, one per million, flashing their spending areas and products like dust motes dancing on sunlight.
If a weed established itself, then the grove would become one plant larger, one plant stronger, and the balance of the Tablelands would tilt one mote away from barrenness, toward fertility.