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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
mote
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
motes of dust/dust motesliterary (= small pieces of dust)
▪ Glittering motes of dust hung in the sunlight.
motes of dust/dust motesliterary (= small pieces of dust)
▪ Glittering motes of dust hung in the sunlight.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Beauty was communication, each mote of light shaded with one nuance of meaning and each meaning had a colour.
▪ Booth agreed that there was a mote in the eye of ministerial beholders preventing them reading the timetable properly.
▪ But this has led anthropologists to exaggerate the motes of racial difference and to ignore the beams of similarity.
▪ I completed tidying the loft, sneezing a few times as the golden space filled with motes of shining dust.
▪ It is hardly necessary to dignify that vile canard by saying there is not a mote of truth to it.
▪ No matter how small, these motes of humanity following our orders are not to be sacrificed lightly.
▪ Shame filled the air like motes of dust.
▪ She screamed, half terrified, half ecstatic, feeling like a mote of dust tossed on an endless ocean.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
mote

Moot \Moot\, n. [AS. m[=o]t, gem[=o]t, a meeting; -- usually in comp.] [Written also mote.]

  1. 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.
    --J. R. Green.

  2. [From Moot, v.] A discussion or debate; especially, a discussion of fictitious causes by way of practice.

    The pleading used in courts and chancery called moots.
    --Sir T. Elyot.

    Moot case, a case or question to be mooted; a disputable case; an unsettled question.
    --Dryden.

    Moot court, a mock court, such as is held by students of law for practicing the conduct of law cases.

    Moot point, a point or question to be debated; a doubtful question.

    to make moot v. t. to render moot[2]; to moot[3].

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mote

"particle of dust," Old English mot, of unknown origin; perhaps related to Dutch mot "dust from turf, sawdust, grit," Norwegian mutt "speck, mote, splinter, chip." Many references are to Matt. vii:3.

Wiktionary
mote

Etymology 1 n. 1 A small particle; a speck. 2 A tiny computer for re'''mote''' sensing. Also known as smartdust. Etymology 2

vb. 1 (context now archaic English) may or might. (from 9th c.) 2 (context obsolete English) must. (9th-17th c.) 3 (context now archaic English) Forming subjunctive expressions of wish: may. (from 9th c.) Etymology 3

n. 1 (context obsolete English) A meeting for discussion. 2 (context obsolete English) A body of persons who meet for discussion, especially about the management of affairs. 3 (context obsolete English) A place of meeting for discussion.

WordNet
mote

n. (nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything [syn: atom, molecule, particle, corpuscle, speck]

Wikipedia
Mote

Mote may refer to:

  • Mote (name)
  • Mote Marine Laboratory, a marine research organization in Sarasota, Florida, US
  • Mote Park, a park in Maidstone, England
  • Mote (food), various types of cooked grains consumed in South America
  • Mote (sensor), a node in a wireless sensor network
  • "Mote", a song by Sonic Youth from their 1990 album Goo
    • "Mote", a song on the 2001 vinyl EP recording Mote/Dust by The Faint
  • Mote spoon, a type of spoon used when preparing tea
  • Mote, a fairy character in A Midsummer Night's Dream
Mote (food)

Mote (from Quechua: mut'i, through Spanish mote) is the generic name for several varieties of corn grains boiled, consumed in many regions of South America. It is usually prepared by boiling the grains in water made alkaline by the addition of ashes or lime, a process known as nixtamalization.

Mote (name)

Mote is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include:

  • Ashley Mote (born 1936), English politician, former member of the European parliament
  • C. Daniel Mote, Jr. (born 1937), President of the National Academy of Engineering
  • David Mote (born 1940), NASCAR driver
  • Edward Mote (1797–1874), English pastor
  • Frederick W. Mote (1922–2005), American sinologist and a professor of history
  • George William Mote (1832–1909), English painter
  • James Orin Mote (1922–2006), a bishop in Indiana, USA
  • Kelly Mote (born 1923), American football player
  • Lauren Mote (born 1997), English actress
  • William Henry Mote (1803–1871), English stipple and line engraver
  • Mote Terukaio, a politician in Kiribati
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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.