moor
see also: Moor
Pronunciation Noun
Moor
Pronunciation
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see also: Moor
Pronunciation Noun
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.
- In her girlish age she kept sheep on the moor.
- A game preserve consisting of moorland.
- French: lande
- German: Hochmoor
- Italian: landa, brughiera
- Portuguese: charneca
- Russian: ве́ресковая пу́стошь
- Spanish: brezal, pantano, turbera
- Russian: охо́тничье уго́дье
moor (moors, present participle mooring; past and past participle moored)
- (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
- the vessel was moored in the stream
- they moored the boat to the wharf.
- (transitive) To secure or fix firmly.
- French: mouiller, amarrer, ancrer
- German: anlegen
- Italian: ancorare, attraccare
- Portuguese: ancorar, atracar
- Russian: прича́ливать
- Spanish: anclar
- French: ancrer with an anchor, amarrer with ropes or cables
- Italian: attraccare, ancorarsi
- Portuguese: ancorar
- Spanish: anclar with an anchor, amarrar with ropes, cables or chains
Moor
Pronunciation
- IPA: /mʊ(ə)ɹ/
moor (plural moors)
- (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.).
- French: Maure
- German: Maure, Maurin, Mohr, Mohrin
- Italian: moro
- Portuguese: mouro, moiro
- Russian: мавр
- Spanish: moro
- French: Maure
- German: Maure, Maurin, Mohr, Mohrin
- Italian: mori
- Portuguese: mouro, moiro
- Russian: мавр
- Spanish: moro
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