moat

Senso (Inglese)

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.

Concetti

fossato

fosso

canale

fossa

canalone

sinonimi

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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Traduzioni

fossé

foso

Graben

fosso

Burggraben

douve

Stadtgraben

fossa

τάφρος

gracht

Wallgraben

fossat

Festungsgraben

slotgracht

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/məʊt/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da inglese medio: mote

Affine francese antico: motte

Affine tedesco svizzero: Mott

Affine bavarese: Mott

Affine olandese: mot

Affine saterfriesisch: mut

Affine svedese: muta

Affine inglese antico: 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.