Academic vs. Moot

Academicadjective

Belonging to the school or philosophy of Plato

Academicadjective

Belonging to an academy or other higher institution of learning; also a scholarly society or organization.

Academicadjective

Theoretical or speculative; abstract; scholarly, literary or classical, in distinction to practical or vocational

Academicadjective

Having little practical use or value, as by being overly detailed, unengaging, or theoretical: having no practical importance.

Academicadjective

Having a love of or aptitude for learning.

Academicadjective

(art) Conforming to set rules and traditions; conventional; formalistic.

Academicadjective

So scholarly as to be unaware of the outside world; lacking in worldliness.

Academicadjective

Subscribing to the architectural standards of Vitruvius.

Academicadjective

Study of humanities topics rather than science and engineering.

Academicnoun

A follower of Plato, a Platonist.

Academicnoun

A senior member of an academy, college, or university; a person who attends an academy; a person engaged in scholarly pursuits; one who is academic in practice.

Academicnoun

A member of the Academy; an academician.

Academicnoun

(archaic) A student in a college.

Academicnoun

(pluralonly) Academic dress; academicals.

Academicnoun

(pluralonly) Academic studies.

Academicadjective

Belonging to the school or philosophy of Plato; as, the Academic sect or philosophy.

Academicadjective

Belonging to an academy or other higher institution of learning; scholarly; literary or classical, in distinction from scientific.

Academicnoun

One holding the philosophy of Socrates and Plato; a Platonist.

Academicnoun

A member of an academy, college, or university; an academician.

Academicnoun

an educator who works at a college or university

Academicadjective

associated with academia or an academy;

Academicadjective

hypothetical or theoretical and not expected to produce an immediate or practical result;

Academicadjective

marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects

Mootadjective

Subject to discussion (originally at a moot); arguable, debatable, unsolved or impossible to solve.

Mootadjective

Being an exercise of thought; academic.

Mootadjective

(North America) Having no practical impact or relevance.

Mootnoun

A moot court.

Mootnoun

A system of arbitration in many areas of Africa in which the primary goal is to settle a dispute and reintegrate adversaries into society rather than assess penalties.

Mootnoun

(Scouting) A gathering of Rovers, usually in the form of a camp lasting 2 weeks.

Mootnoun

(paganism) A social gathering of pagans, normally held in a public house.

Mootnoun

(historical) An assembly (usually for decision making in a locality).

Mootnoun

(shipbuilding) A ring for gauging wooden pins.

Mootnoun

A whisper, or an insinuation, also gossip or rumors.

Mootnoun

Talk.

Mootnoun

(Australia) Vagina.

Mootnoun

(West Country) The stump of a tree; the roots and bottom end of a felled tree.

Mootverb

To bring up as a subject for debate, to propose.

Mootverb

To discuss or debate.

Mootverb

(US) To make or declare irrelevant.

Mootverb

To argue or plead in a supposed case.

Mootverb

To talk or speak.

Mootverb

To say, utter, also insinuate.

Mootverb

(West Country) To take root and begin to grow.

Mootverb

(West Country) To turn up soil or dig up roots, especially an animal with the snout.

Mootverb

See 1st Mot.

Mootverb

To argue for and against; to debate; to discuss; to propose for discussion.

Mootverb

Specifically: To discuss by way of exercise; to argue for practice; to propound and discuss in a mock court.

Mootverb

To render inconsequential, as having no effect on the practical outcome; to render academic; as, the ruling that the law was invalid mooted the question of whether he actually violated it.

Mootverb

To argue or plead in a supposed case.

Mootnoun

A ring for gauging wooden pins.

Mootnoun

A meeting for discussion and deliberation; esp., a meeting of the people of a village or district, in Anglo-Saxon times, for the discussion and settlement of matters of common interest; - usually in composition; as, folk-moot.

Mootnoun

A discussion or debate; especially, a discussion of fictitious causes by way of practice.

Mootadjective

Subject, or open, to argument or discussion; undecided; debatable; mooted.

Mootadjective

Of purely theoretical or academic interest; having no practical consequence; as, the team won in spite of the bad call, and whether the ruling was correct is a moot question.

Mootnoun

a hypothetical case that law students argue as an exercise;

Mootverb

think about carefully; weigh;

Mootadjective

of no legal significance (as having been previously decided)

Mootadjective

open to argument or debate;

Mootadjective

subject to debate, dispute, or uncertainty

Mootadjective

having little or no practical relevance, typically because the subject is too uncertain to allow a decision

Mootverb

raise (a question or topic) for discussion; suggest (an idea or possibility)

Mootnoun

an assembly held for debate, especially in Anglo-Saxon and medieval times.

Mootnoun

a regular gathering of people having a common interest.

Mootnoun

a mock judicial proceeding set up to examine a hypothetical case as an academic exercise