moot

Object

• competition: Merton also runs a mooting competition for first year students in the third term of their 1st year.
• possibility: Given the might of the US, no-one has ever mooted the possibility of sanctions there.
• idea: His most celebrated excess came in his chat with Tony Blair where he mooted the idea of bombing the station's headquarters.
• proposal: The Government has also mooted proposals of using ships to provide emergency housing.
• move: Or - just perhaps - Real's Ronaldo will finally make his long mooted move to United!
• standard: The moot judge, Professor Alastair Mullis, was impressed by the mooting standard of the finalists and their grasp of the criminal law.

Modifying Another Word

• somewhat: Theorizing a work by such a emotive director is very tempting, but somewhat moot.
• originally: Then there is the matter of religion - originally mooted by former Irish prime minister John Bruton.
• first: Plans were first mooted in 2001, albeit without success.
• even: It was not even mooted in the White Paper.
• already: I hope the Vice-Chancellor will also back what I am about to suggest, and have already mooted on the Council.
• also: The Government has also mooted proposals of using ships to provide emergency housing.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

render: However, NATO had deliberately bypassed the UN, rendering this argument moot.

Modifies a noun

• point: Quote: You echo a moot point I raised.
• court: You are every it appears that a moot court with an industry.
• competition: In addition, Queen Mary law students regularly participate in external moot competitions with success.
• question: You are unlikely to grasp all the nuances of the moot question at first sight.
• problem: The moot problem can be written by a student or member of staff.

Used with adjective complement

• render: Some were lying broken on the ground, where a transport accident had rendered moot a year's work.
• become: Thus the question of whether the Difference Engine was itself a tool became moot.