{UAH} WORD OF THE DAY April 6, 2019------------- moiety

WORD OF THE DAY April 6, 2019

moiety    noun | MOY-uh-tee     Definition   1 a : one of two equal parts : half   b : 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   Scroll down for more about moiety      TRENDING NOW: redact redacted whitewash exonerate SEE ALL      PEOPLE ARE READING   Unearthing the Spelling of 'Cemetery' (as 'Sematary')       The Good, The Bad, & The Semantically Imprecise - 4/5/19     The Characteristics of 'Character'       How the Greeks Influenced Our Alphabet         WORD GAMES AND QUIZZES: WEEKLY CHALLENGE   The Exceptions Quiz   One of these things is not like the others.     PLAY NOW     Nailed this quiz? We have plenty more to try!  TAKE ME THERE         Did You Know?   Moiety is one of thousands of words that English speakers borrowed from French. The Anglo-French moité (meaning "a half" or "part of something") comes from Late Latin medietat-, meaning "a 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.     Examples of MOIETY   "They came from the sea—these members of the Eagle moiety—paddling their ceremonial canoes, singing traditional songs. Waiting on the shore were members of the Raven moiety, counterparts to the Eagles in the traditional world of the Haida Indians." — Doug O'Harra, The Anchorage (Alaska) Daily News, 15 Sep. 1996   "Most of the glucose in the body goes directly into cells where it's modified to produce the energy source ATP. However about 5 percent of all glucose is converted to another sugar moiety, O-GlcNAc, one of the sugar types that can modify proteins." — ScienceDaily.com, 12 May 2009   Test Your Vocabulary   Fill in the blanks to complete an adjective that means "undivided": i _ p _ r _ _ te.   VIEW THE ANSWER           WORDS AT PLAY     Words That Come From the Dinner Table   'Cold shoulder,' 'Barmecidal,' and more surprising food-related terms   CHECK OUT THE FULL LIST            MORE WORD FUN:     WORD GAMES          TRENDING NOW          WORDS AT PLAY      FOLLOW US:

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