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{"id": "moot", "metadata": {"operation": "retrieve", "provider": "Oxford University Press", "schema": "RetrieveEntry"}, "results": [{"id": "moot", "language": "en-gb", "lexicalEntries": [{"entries": [{"etymologies": ["Old English m\u014dt \u2018assembly or meeting\u2019 and m\u014dtian \u2018to converse\u2019, of Germanic origin; related to meet. The adjective (originally an attributive noun use: see moot court) dates from the mid 16th century; the current verb sense dates from the mid 17th century"], "notes": [{"text": "Note that a question subject to debate or dispute is a moot point, not a mute point. As moot is a relatively uncommon word people sometimes interpret it as the more familiar word mute", "type": "editorialNote"}], "pronunciations": [{"audioFile": "https://audio.oxforddictionaries.com/en/mp3/moot_gb_1.mp3", "dialects": ["British English"], "phoneticNotation": "IPA", "phoneticSpelling": "mu\u02d0t"}], "senses": [{"constructions": [{"text": "a moot point"}], "definitions": ["subject to debate, dispute, or uncertainty"], "examples": [{"text": "whether they had been successful or not was a moot point"}, {"text": "it is a moot point whether such a controversial scheme would have succeeded"}], "id": "m_en_gbus0659700.006", "shortDefinitions": ["subject to debate or uncertainty"], "synonyms": [{"language": "en", "text": "debatable"}, {"language": "en", "text": "open to debate"}, {"language": "en", "text": "open to discussion"}, {"language": "en", "text": "arguable"}, {"language": "en", "text": "questionable"}, {"language": "en", "text": "at issue"}, {"language": "en", "text": "open to question"}, {"language": "en", "text": "open"}, {"language": "en", "text": "doubtful"}, {"language": "en", "text": "open to doubt"}, {"language": "en", "text": "disputable"}, {"language": "en", "text": "contestable"}, {"language": "en", "text": "controvertible"}, {"language": "en", "text": "problematic"}, {"language": "en", "text": "problematical"}, {"language": "en", "text": "controversial"}, {"language": "en", "text": "contentious"}, {"language": "en", "text": "vexed"}, {"language": "en", "text": "disputed"}, {"language": "en", "text": "unresolved"}, {"language": "en", "text": "unsettled"}, {"language": "en", "text": "up in the air"}, {"language": "en", "text": "undecided"}, {"language": "en", "text": "yet to be decided"}, {"language": "en", "text": "undetermined"}, {"language": "en", "text": "unconcluded"}], "thesaurusLinks": [{"entry_id": "moot", "sense_id": "t_en_gb0009658.001"}]}, {"definitions": ["having little or no practical relevance, typically because the subject is too uncertain to allow a decision"], "examples": [{"text": "the whole matter is becoming increasingly moot"}], "id": "m_en_gbus0659700.009", "shortDefinitions": ["purely theoretical"]}]}], "language": "en-gb", "lexicalCategory": {"id": "adjective", "text": "Adjective"}, "text": "moot"}, {"entries": [{"grammaticalFeatures": [{"id": "transitive", "text": "Transitive", "type": "Subcategorization"}], "notes": [{"text": "Note that a question subject to debate or dispute is a moot point, not a mute point. As moot is a relatively uncommon word people sometimes interpret it as the more familiar word mute", "type": "editorialNote"}], "pronunciations": [{"audioFile": "https://audio.oxforddictionaries.com/en/mp3/moot_gb_1.mp3", "dialects": ["British English"], "phoneticNotation": "IPA", "phoneticSpelling": "mu\u02d0t"}], "senses": [{"definitions": ["raise (a question or topic) for discussion; suggest (an idea or possibility)"], "examples": [{"text": "the scheme was first mooted last October"}], "id": "m_en_gbus0659700.015", "shortDefinitions": ["raise for discussion"], "synonyms": [{"language": "en", "text": "raise"}, {"language": "en", "text": "bring up"}, {"language": "en", "text": "broach"}, {"language": "en", "text": "mention"}, {"language": "en", "text": "put forward"}, {"language": "en", "text": "introduce"}, {"language": "en", "text": "advance"}, {"language": "en", "text": "present"}, {"language": "en", "text": "propose"}, {"language": "en", "text": "suggest"}, {
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