moor
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[edit] English
[edit] Pronunciation
- (WEAE) IPA: /mʊɹ/
- (UK) IPA: /mɔː/ (southern), IPA: /mʊu.ə(ɹ)/ (northern)
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- Rhymes: -ɔː(r) or Rhymes: -ʊu.ə(r)
- Homophones: Moore
[edit] Etymology 1
Old English mōr. Cognates include Dutch moer, German Moor and perhaps also Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐍂𐌴𐌹 (marei). See mere.
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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.
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[edit] Translations
region with poor, marshy soil, peat and heath
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game preserve
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[edit] Etymology 2
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.
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to 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.
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to cast anchor or become fastened
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to fix or secure, as a vessel, in a particular place by casting anchor, or by fastening with cables or chains
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to secure or fix firmly
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[edit] Dutch
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from Moor (North African people, became synonymous with Saracene)
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moor m. (plural moren, diminutive moortje, diminutive plural moortjes)
- Something black, notably a black horse
- A whistling kettle, used to boil water in, as for tea or coffee
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- (kettle) fluitketel
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