mote

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  1. noun A very small particle; a speck: "Dust motes hung in a slant of sunlight” (Anne Tyler).
  2. auxiliary verb Archaic May; might.

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  • But each drifting mote was a space colony with solar panels extended, jostling in their billions jealously to seize the Sun. —  EBSCOhost
  • Not being able to choose between GC controller and Wii-mote is a deal breaker for me, and especially because of how easy it should have been to give players the choice. —  Aussie-Nintendo.com Forums
  • As you can see from the photos, the Mini-mote is a minimalistic mod that doesn't change much from the original Wiimote, except that it's everything my boyfriend wants me to be: cuter, smaller, and slimmer. —  Original Signal - Transmitting Gadgets
  • The Wii-mote was a hindrance in coordinating precise details. —  GamersInfo.net Articles
  • You have to steer your animal with the directional pad on your wii-mote, and that's a pain in my already very bored ass. —  Fragland :: Everything
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  1. Middle English mot, from Old English.
  2. Middle English moten, from Old English mōtan; see med- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Formerly also moat; from Middle English mot (dative mote), from Anglo-Saxon mot, a particle, atom, = Dutch mot, dust; cf. Dutch moet, a knob, speck, mark; Spanish mota, a bur in cloth. Cf. moat.
  2. from Middle English mote, mot (preterit moste), from Anglo-Saxon *mōtan (present mōt, preterit mōste; not found in infinitive) = Old Saxon mōtan, present mōt = OFries. present mōt, preterit mōste = Middle Dutch D. moeten = Middle Low German moten, Low German möten = Old High German muozen, Middle High German müezen, German müssen = Gothic (Moesogothic) mōtan, gamōtan (present mot, preterit gamōste), be obliged; relations doubtful. The word remains only in the preterit (and now also present) must, and in the archaic subjunctive mote.
  3. Middle English, from Latin motus, motion, from movere, PP. motus, move: see move; cf. motion.
  4. Peruvian and Bolivian: Quichua mutti,=Aymara motti.
  5. Back-formation from motor.
 

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