Moornoun詞源 1/mɔː/

• 1

  historicalA member of an ancient Amazigh people from Mauretania.

• 2

  historicalA member of an Islamic people of Arab or Amazigh origin ruling Spain and parts of North Africa from the 8th to the 15th centuries.

  • [King of] Moro[cco]. Ye Moores and valiant men of Barbary, How can ye ſuffer theſe indignities?
• 3

  archaicA Muslim or a person from the Middle East or Africa.

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  datedA person of mixed Arab and Amazigh ancestry inhabiting the Mediterranean coastline of northwest Africa.

• 5

  A person of an ethnic group speaking the Hassaniya Arabic language, mainly inhabiting Western Sahara, Mauritania, and parts of neighbouring countries (Morocco, Mali, Senegal etc.).

Moorname詞源 2/mɔː/

• 1

  A surname.

• 2

  A surname.

moornoun詞源 1/mʊə/

• 1

  An extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light (and usually acidic) soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath. (Compare bog, peatland, marsh, swamp, fen.)

  • A cold, biting wind blew across the moor, and the travellers hastened their step.
  • In her girlish age, she kept sheep on the moor.
• 2

  A game preserve consisting of moorland.

moorverb詞源 2/mʊə/

• 1

  nauticaltransportTo cast anchor or become fastened.

  • The vessel moored in the stream.
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  nauticaltransportTo 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.

  • They moored the boat to the wharf.
  • His thought is tied, the curving prow Of motion moored to rock; And minutes burst upon a brow Insentient to shock.
• 3

  To secure or fix firmly.