moor
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English [edit]
Pronunciation [edit]
- (US) IPA: /mɔɹ/, /mʊ(ə)ɹ/
- (UK) IPA: /mɔː/ (southern), IPA: /mʊ.ə(ɹ)/ (northern)
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Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɔː(r) or Rhymes: -ʊə(r)
- Homophones: Moore, more, mooer
Usage notes [edit]
more is not a homophone in Northern UK accents, while mooer is homophonous only in those accents.
Etymology 1 [edit]
Old English mōr. Cognates include Dutch moer, German Moor and perhaps also Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐍂𐌴𐌹 (marei). See mere.
Noun [edit]
moor (plural moors)
- an extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath
- A cold, biting wind blew across the moor, and the travellers hastened their step.
- a game preserve consisting of moorland
Derived terms [edit]
Translations [edit]
region with poor, marshy soil, peat and heath
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game preserve
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Etymology 2 [edit]
From the imperfect past participle moored; present participle and verbal noun mooring. Probably from middle Dutch marren "to tie, fasten or moor a ship" (now only means to procrastinate; > modern terms (aan)meren). See mar.
Verb [edit]
moor (third-person singular simple present moors, present participle mooring, simple past and past participle moored)
- (intransitive) To cast anchor or become fastened.
- (transitive, nautical) To fix or secure, as a vessel, in a particular place by casting anchor, or by fastening with cables or chains; as, the vessel was moored in the stream; they moored the boat to the wharf.
- (transitive) To secure or fix firmly.
Translations [edit]
to cast anchor or become fastened
to fix or secure, as a vessel, in a particular place by casting anchor, or by fastening with cables or chains
to secure or fix firmly
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Anagrams [edit]
Dutch [edit]
Etymology [edit]
from Moor (North African people, became synonymous with Saracene)
Noun [edit]
moor m (plural moren, diminutive moortje)
- Something black, notably a black horse
- A whistling kettle, used to boil water in, as for tea or coffee
Derived terms [edit]
Synonyms [edit]
- (kettle) fluitketel
Anagrams [edit]
Estonian [edit]
Noun [edit]
moor (??? please provide the genitive and partitive!)
Declension [edit]
- This Estonian noun needs an inflection-table template.
