mote
IPA: mˈoʊt
noun
- A small particle; a speck.
- (obsolete) A meeting for discussion.
- (obsolete) A body of persons who meet for discussion, especially about the management of affairs.
- (obsolete) A place of meeting for discussion.
- A tiny computer for remote sensing; a component element of smartdust.
- A surname.
verb
- (archaic) May or might.
- (obsolete) Must.
- (archaic) Forming subjunctive expressions of wish: may.
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Examples of "mote" in Sentences
- What about the mote in the eye story
- I am just a mote, not a powerful king.
- The tiny mote of light entered the ship.
- I was mote who is surprised to see the report.
- The mote still carried the dignity of the earldom.
- I am but a tiny mote in the Grand Scheme of Things.
- It is one of the most commonly used mote system in the world.
- As the old proverb suggests, first cast out the mote from thine own eye.
- Look to the beam in your own eye before complaining of the mote in others.
- The affront was the mote intolerable from the servile position of her rival.
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