Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun mot

2 senses of mot

Sense 1
bon mot, mot -- (a clever remark)
       => wit, humor, humour, witticism, wittiness -- (a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter)

Sense 2
MOT, MOT test, Ministry of Transportation test -- (a compulsory annual test of older motor vehicles for safety and exhaust fumes)
       => test, trial, run -- (the act of testing something; "in the experimental trials the amount of carbon was measured separately"; "he called each flip of the coin a new trial")