Dictionary Definition
Moor
Noun
1 one of the Muslim people of north Africa; of
mixed Arab and Berber descent; converted to Islam in the 8th
century; conqueror of Spain in the 8th century
2 open land usually with peaty soil covered with
heather and bracken and moss [syn: moorland]
Verb
3 secure with cables or ropes; "moor the
boat"
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
Noun
Derived terms
Translations
region with poor, marshy soil, peat, and heath
- Arabic: (bírka) , (sábxa) ,
- Chinese: 石南属 (shí nán shǔ)
- Danish: hede
- Dutch: hei
- trreq Esperanto
- Estonian: raba
- Finnish: nummi
- trreq French
- German: Moor
- Hungarian: mocsár, láp, ingovány
- Icelandic: mýri
- Irish: móinteán, caorán
- Italian: landa, brughiera
- Japanese: ムーア (mūa)
- Latin: loca fruticetis obsita
- Norwegian: lynghei
- Portuguese: charneca
- Russian: вересковая пустошь (véreskovaja pústoš’)
- Scots: muir
- Spanish: brezal , pantano , páramo
- Swedish: hed
- trreq Turkish
- trreq Welsh
game preserve
See also
Etymology 2
From the imperfect past participle moored; present participle and verbal noun mooring. Probably from marren "to tie", "fasten", "or moor a ship". See mar.Verb
Translations
To cast anchor or become fastened
To fix or secure, as a vessel, in a particular
place by casting anchor, or by fastening with cables or chains
- Russian: ставить на якорь, швартовать
To secure, or fix firmly
- Russian: крепить
- Estonian: silduma, otsi kinnitama
- Finnish: ankkuroida (transitive), ankkuroitua (intransitive)
- French: amarrer
- Portuguese: atracar, ancorar
- Spanish: atracar, amarrar
Anagrams
Estonian
Noun
moorExtensive Definition
Moor may refer to:
- Moors, people of North Africa and al-Andalus
- Moorland, a type of habitat
- Moor Copse, a nature reserve near Tidmarsh
- Mooring (watercraft), securely holding a boat to a riverbank, pier or towpath, or a device used for that purpose
- Mór, Hungary
- Black Moor, a breed of goldfish
- Sri Lankan Moor, a minority ethnic group of Sri Lanka
Moor is also a family name, shared by
- Dmitry Moor (1883-1946), Russian artist
- George Raymond Dallas Moor, World War I Victoria Cross recipient
- Wyman B. S. Moor, 19th Century American politician and lawyer
moor in German: Moor (Begriffsklärung)
moor in Galician: Mouro (homónimos)
moor in Japanese: ムア
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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