moor
IPA: mˈʊr
noun
- An extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath
- A game preserve consisting of moorland.
- (historical) A member of an ancient Berber people from Mauretania.
- (historical) A member of an Islamic people of Arab or Berber origin ruling Spain and parts of North Africa from the 8th to the 15th centuries.
- (archaic) A Muslim or a person from the Middle East or Africa.
- (dated) A person of mixed Arab and Berber ancestry inhabiting the Mediterranean coastline of northwest Africa.
- A person of an ethnic group speaking the Hassaniya language, mainly inhabiting Western Sahara, Mauritania, and parts of neighbouring countries (Morocco, Mali, Senegal etc.).
- A surname.
- A surname from Irish.
- An English surname transferred from the given name.
verb
- (intransitive, nautical) To cast anchor or become fastened.
- (transitive, nautical) To fix or secure (e.g. a vessel) in a particular place by casting anchor, or by fastening with ropes, cables or chains or the like.
- (transitive) To secure or fix firmly.
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Examples of "moor" in Sentences
- The ship was moored by a sailor.
- Moorings fix the buoy to the seabed.
- The light shines the moor in the night.
- Is the reader unfulfilled by this 'Henry Moore'
- Moore was the only white eyewitness to the event.
- A characteristic of the vegetation represent the moors.
- The plantation survived under the Romans and the Moors.
- Following the applications, the peat is returned to the moor.
- A tanker is moored to a buoy by means of a hawser arrangement.
- The advantage of the Moore model is a simplification of the behaviour.
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