mote

mote ¹  (mt)

n.

A very small particle; a speck: "Dust motes hung in a slant of sunlight" (Anne Tyler).

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[Middle English mot, from Old English.]

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mote ²  (mt)

aux.v. Archaic

May; might.

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[Middle English moten, from Old English mtan; see med- in Indo-European roots.]

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mote¹

n

a tiny speck

[Old English mot; compare Middle Dutch mot grit, Norwegian mutt speck]

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mote²

vb past moste [məʊst]

(takes an infinitive without to) Archaic may or might

[Old English mōt, first person singular present tense of mōtan to be allowed]

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

mote - (nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything corpuscle, particle, speck, molecule, atom grain - a relatively small granular particle of a substance; "a grain of sand"; "a grain of sugar" grinding - material resulting from the process of grinding; "vegetable grindings clogged the drain" material, stuff - the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object; "coal is a hard black material"; "wheat is the stuff they use to make bread" chylomicron - a microscopic particle of triglycerides produced in the intestines during digestion; in the bloodstream they release their fatty acids into the blood flyspeck - a tiny dark speck made by the excrement of a fly identification particle - a tiny particle of material that can be added to a product to indicate the source of manufacture

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mote

noun speck, spot, grain, particle, fragment, atom, mite Dust motes swirled in the sunlight.

Translations

mote [məʊt] N → átomo m, mota f
to see the mote in our neighbour's eye and not the beam in our own → ver la paja en el ojo ajeno y no la viga en el propio

mote

n (old) → Staubkorn nt, → Stäubchen nt; to see the mote in one’s neighbour’s eye (and not the beam in one’s own) → den Splitter im Auge des anderen (und nicht den Balken im eigenen Auge) sehen