moat

Significado (Inglês)

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.

Conceitos

fosso

cava

fossa

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Sinônimos

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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Traduções

fossé

foso

fossato

Graben

Burggraben

douve

fosso

Stadtgraben

gracht

τάφρος

fossa

Wallgraben

slotgracht

fossat

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/məʊt/

Etimologia (Inglês)

Herdado de inglês médio: mote

Cognato com francês arcaico: motte

Cognato com alemão (Suíça): Mott

Cognato com Bavarian: Mott

Cognato com holandês: mot

Cognato com Saterfriesisch: mut

Cognato com sueco: muta

Cognato com inglês arcaico: 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.