moat
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Danh từ
noun- 1.
A deep, wide defensive ditch, normally filled with water, surrounding a fortified habitation.
Đồng nghĩa: fosse
- 2.
(figuratively)(business, figurative) 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.
(meteorology) A clear ring outside the eyewall of a tropical cyclone.
- 5.
(obsolete)A hill or mound.
Động từ
verb- 1.
(transitive)To surround with a moat.
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From Middle English mote, from Old French mote (mound, embankment); compared also to motte, from mota (a mound, hill), of Germanic origin, perhaps via *mot, *motta (mud, peat, bog, turf), from Proto-Germanic *mutô, *mudraz, *muþraz (dirt, filth, mud, swamp), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mut- (dark, dirty).