EnglishModificar

PronunciationModificar

• (WEAE) IPA: /mʊɹ/
• (UK) IPA: /mɔː/ (southern), IPA: /mʊə(ɹ)/ (northern)

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(r) or Rhymes: -ʊə(r)
• Homophones: Moore

Etymology 1Modificar

Old English mōr. Cognates include Dutch moer, German Moor and perhaps also Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐍂𐌴𐌹 (marei). See mere.

NounModificar

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.

2. A game preserve consisting of moorland.

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• moorland

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• bog
• marsh
• swamp

Etymology 2Modificar

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.

VerbModificar

1. (intransitive) To cast anchor or become fastened.
2. (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.
3. (transitive) To secure or fix firmly.

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AnagramsModificar

• Moro
• room

DutchModificar

EtymologyModificar

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

NounModificar

Moor m. (plural moren, diminutive moortje, diminutive plural moortjes)

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

Derived termsModificar

• moorkop

SynonymsModificar

• (kettle) fluitketel

AnagramsModificar

• room

EstonianModificar

NounModificar

moor

1. grimalkinang:moor

et:moor fr:moor io:moor it:moor kn:moor hu:moor nl:moor pl:moor fi:moor sv:moor ta:moor te:moor vi:moor zh:moor