different between rooting vs mooting

English

Etymology

From Middle English rotynge (“rooting”); equivalent to root +? -ing.

Noun

rooting (countable and uncountable, plural rootings)

1. A system of roots; a secure attachment (in something); a firm grounding.
   • 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Mark IV:

     as sone as the sun was uppe it caught heet: and because it had nott rotynge it wyddred awaye.

2. The process of forming roots.
3. A method of creating a new plant by getting part of an existing plant to form roots.
4. A hole formed by a pig when it roots in the ground.
   • 1968, Gary Douglas E. Joll, Big game hunting in New Zealand (page 209)

     These rootings may be as deep as two and a half feet, depending on how large a pig has been working.

Translations

Verb

rooting

1. present participle of root

See also

• rooting tooting

Anagrams

• Rogotin

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English motinge, moting, from Old English m?tung, equivalent to moot +? -ing.

Noun

mooting (plural mootings)

1. The activity of taking part in a moot court.
   • 1806-1820, William Cobbett, Parliamentary History of England from the Norman conquest in 1066 to the Year 1803

     In this he had been guided, not by the mootings of lawyers, not by the reveries of pamphlets, not by the conversation of coffee-houses, but by the opinions of minds that were fitter to direct than to co-operate with such minds as his.

Etymology 2

From moot +? -ing.

Verb

mooting

1. present participle of moot

Anagrams

• tooming