Moor

Noun

 * 1) 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.
 * 1) a game preserve consisting of moorland

Derived terms

 * moorland

Verb

 * 1)  To cast anchor or become fastened.
 * 2)  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.
 * 3)  To secure or fix firmly.

Adverbs for Moor
primitively; safely; permanently; seasonally; cautiously; habitually; prudently.

Thesaurus
affix, agricultural region, alight, alkali flat, alluvial plain, anchor, annex, anthill, arable land, attach, barrow, basin, batten, batten down, baygall, belay, berth, billet at, bind, bivouac, black belt, bog, bottom, bottomland, bottoms, brae, bridle, buffalo wallow, burrow, bushveld, butte, camp, campo, cast anchor, catch, cement, chain, champaign, champaign country, cinch, citrus belt, clamp, clinch, coastal plain, colonize, come to anchor, come to land, corn belt, cotton belt, countryside, cramp, debark, debus, delta, deplane, desert, detrain, disembark, disemplane, dock, domesticate, down, downs, drop anchor, drop the hook, drumlin, dune, dust bowl, enchain, engraft, ensconce, entrammel, establish residence, everglade, farm belt, farm country, farmland, fasten, fasten down, fell, fen, fenland, fetter, fix, flat, flat country, flatland, flats, foothills, fruit belt, glade, go ashore, graft, grapple, grass roots, grass veld, grassland, grazing region, gyve, hamper, handcuff, heath, highland, highlands, hill, hillock, hive, hobble, hog wallow, hog-tie, holm, hopple, hummock, inhabit, kedge, kedge off, keep house, knit, knob, knoll, land, lande, lash, lash and tie, lay anchor, leash, level, live at, llano, locate, lowland, lowlands, lunar mare, make a landfall, make fast, make land, make port, make secure, make sure, manacle, marais, mare, marish, marsh, marshland, meadow, meadows and pastures, mere, mesa, mesilla, mire, molehill, monticle, monticule, moorland, moors, morass, moss, mound, move, mud, mud flat, nest, open country, pampa, pampas, park, peat bog, peg down, peneplain, people, perch, picket, pin down, pinion, plain, plains, plateau, playa, populate, prairie, prairies, province, provinces, put in, put in irons, put into port, put to, quagmire, quicksand, reach land, relocate, reside, restrain, rolling country, roost, rope, rural district, rustic region, salt flat, salt marsh, salt pan, sand dune, savanna, screw up, sebkha, secure, set, set to, set up housekeeping, set up shop, settle, settle down, shackle, sit down, slob land, slough, sough, squat, stand, stay at, steppe, steppes, straitjacket, strap, strike root, sump, swale, swamp, swampland, swell, table, tableland, taiga, take residence at, take root, take up residence, tether, the country, the soil, the sticks, tie, tie down, tie up, tighten, tobacco belt, trammel, tree veld, trice up, trim, tundra, unboat, upland, uplands, vega, veld, wallow, wash, wasteland, weald, wheat belt, wide-open spaces, wold, woodland, woods and fields, yokeldom

Pronunciation

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Etymology 1
mor:. Cognates include Dutch moer:, German Moor: and perhaps also Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐍂𐌴𐌹:. See mere:.

Etymology 2
From the imperfect past participle moored; present participle and verbal noun mooring. Probably from middle marren "to tie, fasten or moor a ship" (now only means to procrastinate; > modern terms (aan)meren). See mar.

Noun

 * Arabic: (bírka),  (sábxa) ,
 * Chinese: 石南属 (shí nán shǔ)
 * Croatian: vrijesište
 * Czech: vřesoviště
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: stepo
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Irish: ,


 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: ムーア (mūa)
 * Latin: loca fruticetis obsita
 * Norwegian: lynghei
 * Old Irish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: вересковая пустошь
 * Scots: muir
 * Scottish Gaelic:, ,
 * Spanish: brezal, pantano , páramo
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish: kır
 * Welsh: gwaun


 * : brughiera (2)

Verb

 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * Italian:, attraccare


 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish:


 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * Irish: feistigh, múráil


 * Italian: attraccare, ancorarsi
 * Russian: ставить на якорь, швартовать
 * Spanish: with an anchor,  with robes, cables or chains


 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * Irish: feistigh, fosaigh, suigh, daingnigh


 * Russian:
 * Spanish:, ,


 * : silduma, otsi kinnitama


 * Portuguese: ,

Anagrams

 * Moro
 * room

Noun

 * 1) Something black, notably a black horse
 * 2) A whistling kettle, used to boil water in, as for tea or coffee

Etymology
from Moor (North African people, became synonymous with Saracene)

Derived terms

 * moorkop

Synonyms

 * (kettle) fluitketel

Anagrams

 * room

Noun

 * 1) grimalkin