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Definition: MORT |
MORTNoun1. The skin of a sheep or lamb that has died of disease. 2. A note or series of notes sounded on a horn at the death of game. 3. Death; esp., the death of game in the chase. 4. A salmon in its third year. 5. A woman; a female. 6. A great quantity or number. |
"MORT" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a moor town". |
Date "MORT" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references) |
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Slang in 1811 | MORT. A woman or wench; also a yeoman's daughter. To be taken all-a mort; to be confounded, surprised, or motionless through fear. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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Warning: Wikipedia contains spoilers
A teenager, as we would call him now, Mort's personality and temperament make him rather unsuited to the family business. Thus, his father takes him to a local hiring fair, hoping he'll be picked up as an apprentice by someone; not only will this provide a job for his son, but it will also be someone else's problem to knock him into shape. As time ticks by, all of the prospective masters pass him up, but Mort stubbornly holds out to the end, refusing to leave until midnight has passed. Just before the clock-bell rings for the 12th time, a man concealed in a black cloak arrives on a white horse. He sais he is looking for a young man to assist him in his work and picks up Mort. The man turns out to be Death, and gives Mort an apprenticeship to his "job" of ushering souls into the next world (though his father thinks he's been apprenticed to an undertaker).
It is believed that Death chose Mort partly because Death himself has the nickname Mort (he is called this by the other members of the 4 horsemen), Mort being the French word for death, and the origin of several English words (e.g. mortal, post mortem).
The pressure of the job forces Mort to make a few mistakes, but like all good heroes, he grows some spine, gains some self control, challenges death to a duel and waltzes away with the girl...
He marries Death's adopted daughter Ysabell and they live relatively happily ever after as the duke and duchess of Sto Helit.
Their storyline (and that of their daughter Susan) is continued in the later Discworld novel Soul Music.
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
MORT | English | Moving out rotary tools | N/A |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Rejoicing | Phrase: the heart leaping with joy; ce n'est pas etre bien aise que de rire; "Laughter holding both his sides"; " le roi est mort, vive le roi "; "with his eyes in flood with laughter". |
Success | Bis vincit qui se vincit in victoria; cede repugnanti cedendo victor abibis; chacun est l'artisan de sa fortune; dies faustus; l'art de vaincre est celui de mepriser la mort; omnia vincit amor; "peace hath her victories no less renowned than war"; "the race by vigor not by vaunts is won"; vincit qui patitur; vincit qui se vincit; "The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet". |
Warfare | War to the death, war to the knife; guerre a mort, guerre a outrance; open war, internecine war, civil war. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: MORT |
| Specialty definitions using "MORT": Arthurian Romances ♦ BINGO MORT, BLEACHED MORT ♦ Dagonet ♦ FRENCHIFIED ♦ GENTRY MORT ♦ Horse. ♦ Juge de Paix ♦ Morbleu!, MORTGAGE, MOT ♦ QUEER MORT ♦ ROME MORT, RUM MORT. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "MORT": Alamort, Amort ♦ Morling, mortmain, Mortpay. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "MORT" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Catalan (dead, late), French (casualty, dead, death, demise, doom, dying, exit, extinct, fate, gone, passing, quietus, ruin), Manx (manslaughter), Romanian (breathless, cold, dead, dead and gone, dead beat, deceased, defunct, dummy, exanimate, extinct, gone, in the dust, lifeless), Scottish (murder, murdering, slay, slaying;). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Mort au jury (1974) La Mort d'un enfant (1974) À vos souhaits... la mort (1974) Monsieur Emilien est mort (1973) La Mort d'un bûcheron (1973) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Appareil (étuve) pour l'étude du mécanisme de la mort par la chaleur. / E. Veemorcken, sc. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Mort De Masaccio. / Weber del. Lithog. de C. Motte. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Le Marchand de mort aux Rats. / Lith. de Marlet. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | La Mort du Roy Henry deuxiemeaux tournelles a Paris, 1ex, Juillet, 1559. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Chartres-La Mort de la Vierge XII / sculpt. Lucy Garnot. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Battle of Chancellorsville--May 2, 3 & 4, 1863--Union (Gen. Hooker) ... Confederate (Gen. Lee) ... Gen. Jackson mort. wd. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Vous etes la guerrilla contre la mort climatisee qu'on veut vous vendre sous le nom d'avenir [par] Cortazar. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
Magna Carta | 1215 | Inquests of novel disseisin, of mort d'ancestor, and of darrein presentment shall not be held elsewhere than in their own county courts, and that in manner following; We, or, if we should be out of the realm, our chief justiciar, will send two justiciaries through every county four times a year, who shall alone with four knights of the county chosen by the county, hold the said assizes in the county court, on the day and in the place of meeting of that court. (reference) |
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| "MORT" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 61.90% of the time. "MORT" is used about 21 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 61.9% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Noun (singular) | 38.1% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Total | 100.00% | 21 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "MORT" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Mort | Last name | 1,000 | 18,075 |
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| "MORT" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a moor town". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "MORT." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Mort | Male | English | Morton |
| Morton | Male | English | N/A |
| Morty | Male | English | Morton |
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Expressions using "MORT": a mort of ♦ mort cloth ♦ mort stone. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "MORT": mort-safes. | |
Ending with "MORT": All-a-mort. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "MORT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σάλπισμα επί τον φόνο θηράματοσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מספר '"ול (many), כמות '"ול" (deal, pile, raft). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | rengeteg dolgom van (I have a mort of things to do). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ortmay meretriz (floozy, harlot, hooker, prostitute, trull, wench), salmão (kipper, salmon), prostituta (bitch, call girl, courtesan, courtezan, drab, draggle-tail, harlot, harridan, hooker, moll, prostitute, punk, streetwalker, strumpet, traipse, trull, unfortunate, walker, wench, whore), grande quantidade (a lot of, considerable, galore, infinity, lots, million, much, oodles, peck, pocketful, profusion, raft, regiment, sea, shoal, sight, stack, thickness, ton, tonne, torrent, wilderness). (various references) cantitate mare (accumulation, lashing, quantity). (various references) av borusu, üç yaşında som balığı. (various references) cô gái cá h"i ba tuổi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "MORT": mortadella, mortadellas, mortal, mortalities, mortality, mortally, mortals, mortar, mortarboard, mortarboards, mortared, mortaring, mortarless, mortars, mortary, mortgage, mortgaged, mortgagee, mortgagees, mortgager, mortgagers, mortgages, mortgaging, mortgagor, mortgagors, mortice, morticed, mortices, mortician, morticians, morticing, mortification, mortifications, mortified, mortifies, mortify, mortifying, mortise, mortised, mortiser, mortisers, mortises, mortising, mortmain, mortmains, morts, mortuaries, mortuary. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "MORT": amort. (additional references) | |
Words containing "MORT": amortise, amortised, amortises, amortising, amortizable, amortization, amortizations, amortize, amortized, amortizes, amortizing, antemortem, dumortierite, dumortierites, immortal, immortalise, immortalised, immortalises, immortalising, immortalities, immortality, immortalization, immortalizations, immortalize, immortalized, immortalizer, immortalizers, immortalizes, immortalizing, immortally, immortals, immortelle, immortelles, postmortem, postmortems, remortgage, remortgaged, remortgages, remortgaging, unamortized. (additional references) | |
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"MORT" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: jort, kort, mert, mertz, metr, mirt, mirtl, moet, moft, moit, Moorat, mopr, mor, Morat, morc, morch, mord, Mordt, Moret, morf, morg, morh, mori, mork, morm, Moroti, morp, morr, morte, morto, morty, moru, Motru, mout, movt, mowra, mowt, mozrt, mpr, mro, mrt, murat, murd, murf, murg, murst, murt, Murty, Myrto, Noort, nort, norti, omert, vort. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "MORT" (pronounced mô"rt) |
| 3 | -ô" r t | abort, assort, athwart, boart, bort, cavort, comport, consort, contort, court, deport, distort, escort, exhort, extort, Fort, forte, import, misreport, ort, port, quart, report, resort, short, snort, sort, sport, support, Swart, teleport, thwart, tort, torte, transport, underreport, wart. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "m-o-r-t" | |
-1 letter: mor, mot, ort, rom, rot, tom, tor. | |
-2 letters: mo, om, or, to. | |
| Words containing the letters "m-o-r-t" | |
+1 letter: amort, metro, morts, motor, storm, tromp, tumor. | |
+2 letters: emoter, format, import, marmot, matron, mentor, merlot, meteor, metros, molter, mooter, mortal, mortar, mother, motors, prompt, remote, storms, stormy, stroma, termor, tremor, trompe, tromps, tumors, tumour. | |
+3 letters: amatory, amorist, bromate, comfort, compart, comport, cutworm, doormat, dormant, emoters, erotism, formant, formate, formats, gourmet, grommet, imports, madwort, maestro, marcato, marmots, marplot, matador, matrons, mentors, merlots, meteors, missort, mobster, moister, molters, monitor, monster, montero, mooters, mordant, mordent, mortals, mortars, mortary, mortice, mortify, mortise, mothers, mothery, mothier, motlier, motored, motoric, mottler, moulter, mounter, mouther, mugwort, nostrum, oestrum, omitter, ostmark, pomfret, premolt, promote, prompts, protium, remoter, remotes, remount, romaunt, rostrum, scrotum, smother, stardom, stomper, stormed, stromal, tamarao, tambour, taproom, tearoom, temblor, teraohm, termors, theorem, thermos, thorium, thrombi, tonearm, torment, tourism, transom, tremolo, tremors, triform, trisome, trisomy, tritoma, trommel, tromped, trompes, tropism, tsardom, tumoral, tumours, turmoil, tzardom, vomiter. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 4F 52 54 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- --- .-. - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01001111 01010010 01010100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M O R T |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 004F 0052 0054 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)47495254 |
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