This should put an end to this :-)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Mote \Mote\, v.
See 1st Mot. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Mote \Mote\, n. [See Moot, a meeting.] [Obs., except in a few
combinations or phrases.]
1. A meeting of persons for discussion; as, a wardmote in the
city of London.
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2. A body of persons who meet for discussion, esp. about the
management of affairs; as, a folkmote.
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3. A place of meeting for discussion.
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Mote bell, the bell rung to summon to a mote. [Obs.]
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Mote \Mote\, n.
The flourish sounded on a horn by a huntsman. See Mot, n.,
3, and Mort. --Chaucer.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Mote \Mote\, n. [OE. mot, AS. mot.]
A small particle, as of floating dust; anything proverbially
small; a speck.
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The little motes in the sun do ever stir, though there
be no wind. --Bacon.
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We are motes in the midst of generations. --Landor.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Mot \Mot\ (m[=o]t), v. [Sing. pres. ind. Mot, Mote, Moot
(m[=o]t), pl. Mot, Mote, Moote, pres. subj. Mote;
imp. Moste.] [See Must, v.] [Obs.]
May; must; might.
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He moot as well say one word as another --Chaucer.
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The wordes mote be cousin to the deed. --Chaucer.
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Men moot [i.e., one only] give silver to the poore
freres. --Chaucer.
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So mote it be, so be it; amen; -- a phrase in some rituals,
as that of the Freemasons.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Moot \Moot\, n. [AS. m[=o]t, gem[=o]t, a meeting; -- usually in
comp.] [Written also mote.]
1. 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.
--J. R. Green.
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2. [From Moot, v.] A discussion or debate; especially, a
discussion of fictitious causes by way of practice.
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The pleading used in courts and chancery called
moots. --Sir T.
Elyot.
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Moot case, a case or question to be mooted; a disputable
case; an unsettled question. --Dryden.
Moot court, a mock court, such as is held by students of
law for practicing the conduct of law cases.
Moot point, a point or question to be debated; a doubtful
question.
to make moot v. t. to render moot[2]; to moot[3].
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From WordNet (r) 2.0:
mote
n : (nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything [syn: atom,
molecule, particle, corpuscle, speck]
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From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
128 Moby Thesaurus words for "mote":
ace, acropolis, air, atom, bastion, beachhead, bit, black sheep,
blemish, blockhouse, bridgehead, bubble, bunker, castle, chaff,
chip, citadel, cobweb, cork, crumb, dab, dole, donjon, dot, down,
dram, dribble, driblet, drop, droplet, dust, dwarf, ether, fairy,
farthing, fasthold, fastness, feather, fleck, flue, fluff,
flyspeck, foam, foreign body, foreign intruder, fort, fortress,
fragment, froth, fuzz, garrison, garrison house, gnat, gobbet,
gossamer, grain, granule, groat, hair, handful, hold, impurity,
intruder, iota, jot, keep, little, little bit, martello,
martello tower, microbe, microorganism, midge, minim, minimum,
minutia, minutiae, misfit, mite, modicum, molecule, monkey wrench,
motte, nutshell, oddball, ounce, particle, pebble, peel,
peel tower, pillbox, pinch, pinhead, pinpoint, pittance, point,
post, rath, safehold, scrap, scruple, sliver, smidgen, smitch,
snip, snippet, speck, splinter, sponge, spoonful, spot, spume,
stone, straw, strong point, stronghold, thimbleful, thistledown,
tiny bit, tittle, tower, tower of strength, trifling amount,
trivia, vanishing point, ward, weed, whit
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From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary:
Mote
(Gr. karphos, something dry, hence a particle of wood or chaff,
etc.). A slight moral defect is likened to a mote (Matt. 7:3-5;
Luke 6:41, 42).
On 3/7/07, Thom McMahon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Moot right that's a point of interest, Mote is a designer/layout tech.
and
Moots is a very high quality bicycle they make across the street.
Confused as usual. Thanks George!
Back to the 1985 Grid dry system, If they used QR or FR heads NFPA 25
say's
its time to start sample testing those! Maybe a C.O. you might have
missed?
Or if there are any Dry heads they're more than 10 years past due for
testing.
Thom McMahon
Firetech, Inc.
2560 Copper Ridge Dr
Steamboat Springs, CO 80488-2136
Tel: 970-879-7952
Fax: 970-879-7926
----- Original Message -----
From: "George Church" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 10:24 AM
Subject: RE: Gridded Dry System
> Um, Thom, it's MOOT. Mote (Richard) is a designer extraordinaire here.
> Oh, sorry- Engineering Technician Extraordinaire.
>
> But that's not why I wrote- Here in PA we were under the '81 code until
> 2004. Without an understanding AHJ we didn't have ESFR, Residential,
> and
> darn I lost my opportunity to install a last couple dry grids.
>
> As everyone else opens up their 2007 #13's, we get to open the '02
> version
> that kicked in 1/1/07 here in PA. On the plus side, we can buy our
> copies
> used, and the Errata are usually cleaned up by the time we need that
> edition.
>
> So what's in widespread use nationwide and what applies to a particular
> project are two way different things- and that's not even bringing the
> military into it!
>
> glc
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thom
> McMahon
> Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 11:52 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Gridded Dry System
>
> The other side of this "Sticky" question is what code the AHj was using
> at
> the time the design/layout and installation were approved. In 1985, it
> could
>
> have been a much older version of 13. (This is Mote, with David's info
> below
>
> but always worth remembering.)
> The follow up is always "It was approved by the AHJ" at the time, so
> did
> they knowingly make an AHJ allowed "Exception" or simply miss it in
> review?
> If review was even required?
>
> Every "OLD" system seems to create as many questions as opportunities.
>
> Thom McMahon
> Firetech, Inc.
> 2560 Copper Ridge Dr
> Steamboat Springs, CO 80488-2136
> Tel: 970-879-7952
> Fax: 970-879-7926
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Autry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 8:46 AM
> Subject: RE: Gridded Dry System
>
>
>
>
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