mote
4
8.2
- noun
- /moʊt/
- Literature
:
partícula
- The sun was streaming in, and dust motes swam slowly in the hot light.
- motes of dust
- tiny motes
We misperceive ourselves as particles, solitary motes of cosmic matter.
- We misperceive ourselves as particles, solitary motes of cosmic matter.
- Everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being, whoever was lived on this mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
- The Planck mass is about the mass of a of a grain of dust, the mote of dust.
Examples
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Young Barris watches dust motes lit by the early morning sunlight pouring through his bedroom window.
Fiction book (2002) -
In the thin January light, dust motes spun to the wooden floor, and for some reason, this made her sad.
Fiction book (1995) -
And above me, floating like a mote of dust in the sea of space, was the shining planet Earth.
Fiction book (1996) -
Now I could see bands of light below where dust motes swirled in the wind.
Fiction book (1990) -
Shafts of light illuminate motes of dust and turn leaves emerald where the sun breaks through.
Fiction book (1992) -
If you could magnify this picture sufficiently, you could see motes hovering around me—old ashes of books.
Fiction book (1997) -
As the sunlight streamed through the window, a single mote of dust danced in the air.
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She noticed a tiny mote of dirt on the table that she needed to wipe away.
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The artist depicted a tranquil scene with a mote of glittering particles floating in the sunlight.
Synonyms
447
4.2
A very small piece or amount of something
73
1.0
A very small hard piece of something like salt or sand
66
1.3
A very small spot or amount of something
14
2.8
A very small amount of something, almost none
10
6.5
A very small piece of material used in science and technology
8
5.8
A very small particle or device about one billionth of a meter
5
4.6
A very small piece like a grain, for example of sugar or sand
1
9.4
A very small piece of a substance like a speck of dust
A very small piece like a grain of dust
A very small part of matter like a tiny particle
How Tiny
Surface Forms
Etymology
Mote comes from an old English word that meant a 'tiny speck' or 'small bit'. So a mote still means a very small piece of dust or anything else you can hardly see.