Posted on 09/28/2011 5:14:02 AM PDT by VRWCmember
In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".
moiety \MOY-uh-tee\ - noun
1a. one of two equal parts; half
2b. one of two approximately equal parts
2. one of the portions into which something is divided; component, part
3: one of two basic complementary tribal subdivisions
Example sentence:
"According to the FDA, a new molecular entity or new chemical entity is a drug that contains no active moiety that has been approved by the FDA for any other application submitted under section 505(b) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act." -- From Ibis Sanchez-Serrano's 2011 book The World's Health Care Crisis: From the Laboratory Bench to the Patient's Bedside
Extra Example sentence:
"She was asked to describe the tribe's two moieties. She said the Winter and Summer People provided the basic religious and social structure…." -- From Joanne Barker's 2011 book Native Acts: Law, Recognition, and Cultural Authenticity
Did you know?
"Moiety" is one of thousands of words that English speakers borrowed from French. The Anglo-French "moitè" (meaning "a half" or "part of something") comes from Late Latin "medietat-," meaning "half." Around the same time that "moiety" was borrowed from Anglo-French, "medietat-" was also borrowed directly from Latin as "mediety," a word which can also mean "a half." "Medietat-" comes from Latin "medius" (meaning "middle"), which has contributed to such English words as "medium," "meridian," and "milieu."
Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the Word for the Day in a sentence.
The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day.
The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-)
Practice makes perfect.....post on....
Review Threads:
Review Thread One: Word For The Day, Thursday 11/14/02: Raffish (Be SURE to check out posts #92 and #111 on this thread!)
Review Thread Two: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/14/03: Roister
Review Thread Three: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/28/03: Obdurate
Review Thread Four: Word For the Day, Friday 7/25/03: Potation
Review Thread Five: Word For the Day, Monday 8/19/03: Stolid
Review Thread Six: Word for the Day, Tuesday 11/09/2004: Peripatetic (Post #125 may be my best anagram post ever)
I guess a “mohelty” is when the rabbi cuts off way too much?
Low hanging fruit.
LMAO!
NHL frowns on those slurs now....; )
I see that and raise you a Fayette county story. (OK, they’re from Butler county, but it has “Fayette” written all over it.)
http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2011/09/27/couple-accused-of-stealing-copper-to-pay-for-wedding/
Always nice when your toddler can be ringbearer at your wedding.
I don’t know how $18 makes a big difference. Gets you a bottle of Crown, maybe.
Oh, they didn’t have the video on the KDKA site. Dude was on the TV news last night shirtless.
It was 71 yesterday. Nice, but hardly shirtless weather.
Good obscure word! The first (and just about only) time I encountered it was when I was in my teens and it was in a book-Robert Heinlein’s “Citizen of the Galaxy”-moiety was used to describe the tribal customs/divisions of a bunch of people in a sort of space traveling colony-kind of like a caste system in India, as I recall...
Rats howl about the moiety
Of the House as it is today-
No doubt because their puppets
Can no longer have their way
I only hope the Senate, in 2012
Will follow their lead in kind
So the IRS, EPA, and others
Will no longer rob us blind
But if their mafia boss, Obama
Gets impeached and loses his job
All the Solyndras will be SOL
Just a green and greedy blob
Some women can get really bad when they get cutoff.
As a younger man, I had my storm door kicked in, a rock thrown thru my bedroom window, physically assaulted, my car damaged,a father at my door asking if I was marrying, and my name and ph number written on the ladies room wall at a movie theater (though I guess that was an endorsement,I found out when my my mother saw it) as well as a couple things I don’t like to talk about.
All after cutting the ties.
All by different chicks.
(And I didn’t cruise mental institutions)
How long do you suppose it will be till a man lands on Uranus?
What are you, 10 yo?
Ummm... Trailer parks....?; )
I love when Butthead rolls that line out to Beavis
The line outside the Jerry Springer show.
He puts the FUN in dysfunctional
Stay classy!
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