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n. - (nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything.

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  • We are still trying to use our moral rectitude, but that mote is pretty obvious at present, and the values are, to be honest, quite empty.
  • September 5th, 2009 Hey Maa Mata Ji girl, Disha Wakhani is now very much aggravated by the word "mote".
  • "mote," it went so slowly that not enough momentum could be obtained to make the airship rise.
  • One never knows when they are not going to 'mote.'
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  • At the touch of "mote" (a speck of dust) the reflection of the "motte" (grouped of prairie trees) on the surface of the "moat" (deep ditch often filled with water) was lost.
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