moat

Εννοια (Αγγλικός)

Noun

1. A deep, wide defensive ditch, normally filled with water, surrounding a fortified habitation.
2. (figuratively) An aspect of a business which makes it more "defensible" from competitors, because of the nature of its products, services or franchise or for some other reason.
3. A circular lowland between a resurgent dome and the walls of the caldera surrounding it.
4. A clear ring outside the eyewall of a tropical cyclone.
5. (obsolete) A hill or mound.

Verb

To surround with a moat.

Έννοιες

τάφρος

περικλείω με τάφρο

τάφρος με νερό

τάφρος φρουρίου

Συνώνυμα

ditch

trench

fosse

canal

pit

gutter

irrigation canal

channel

sea moat

cavity

gully

small canal

overflow

groove

sink

dike

watercourse

waterway

chasm

hole

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Μεταφράσεις

fossé

foso

fossato

Graben

douve

Burggraben

fosso

fosso

Stadtgraben

gracht

fossa

Wallgraben

fossat

Festungsgraben

Προφέρεται ως (IPA)

/məʊt/

Ετυμολογία (Αγγλικός)

Κληρονομήθηκε από Μέσα Αγγλικά: mote

Συγγενές με Παλαιά Γαλλικά: motte

Συγγενές με Γερμανικά Ελβετίας: Mott

Συγγενές με Bavarian: Mott

Συγγενές με Ολλανδικά: mot

Συγγενές με Saterfriesisch: mut

Συγγενές με Σουηδικά: muta

Συγγενές με Παλαιά Αγγλικά: mot

In summary

From Middle English mote, from Old French mote (“mound, embankment”); compare also Old French motte (“hillock, lump, clod, turf”), from Medieval Latin mota (“a mound, hill”), of Germanic origin, perhaps via Frankish *mot, *motta (“mud, peat, bog, turf”), from Proto-Germanic *mutô, *mudraz, *muþraz (“dirt, filth, mud, swamp”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mut- (“dark, dirty”).
Cognate with Alemannic German Mott, Mutte (“peat, turf”), Bavarian Mott (“peat, turf”), dialectal Dutch mot (“dust, fine sand”), Saterland Frisian mut (“grit, litter, humus”), Swedish muta (“to drizzle”), Old English mot (“speck, particle”). More at mote, mud, smut.
As term for a business strategy, popularized by American investor Warren Buffett.