mote

mote ¹

M0358900 (mōt)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

M0358900 (mōt)aux.v. Archaic May; might.

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

mote

(məʊt) na tiny speck[Old English mot; compare Middle Dutch mot grit, Norwegian mutt speck]

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mote

(məʊt) 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]

mote¹

(moʊt)

n. a small particle or speck, esp. of dust. [before 1000; Middle English, Old English mot speck; akin to Frisian, Dutch mot grit, sawdust]

mote²

(moʊt)

v. pt. moste (mōst). Archaic. may or might. [before 900; Middle English mot(e), Old English mōt. See must¹]

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

mote - (nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anythingcorpuscle, particle, speck, molecule, atomgrain - 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 bloodflyspeck - a tiny dark speck made by the excrement of a flyidentification particle - a tiny particle of material that can be added to a product to indicate the source of manufacture

mote

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

Translations

atome