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BNC: 4388 COCA: 17855

moor
1 moor /ˈmuɚ/ noun
plural moors
1 moor
/ˈmuɚ/
noun
plural moors
Learner's definition of MOOR
[count]
: a broad area of open land that is not good for farming旷野；荒野 — used especially to refer to land in Great Britain尤指位于大不列颠的土地 — usually plural通常用复数
2 moor /ˈmuɚ/ verb
moors; moored; mooring
2 moor
/ˈmuɚ/
verb
moors; moored; mooring
Learner's definition of MOOR
: to hold (a boat or ship) in place with ropes or cables or with an anchor使停泊；系泊
[+ object]
[no object]

Moor
Moor /ˈmuɚ/ noun
plural Moors
Moor
/ˈmuɚ/
noun
plural Moors
Learner's definition of MOOR
[count]
: a member of a group of North African Arab people who ruled parts of Spain from the eighth century until 1492摩尔人（北非阿拉伯人的一个族群，从8世纪到1492年统治着西班牙的部分领土）

— Moorish

/ˈmurɪʃ/ adjective
BNC: 4388 COCA: 17855

moor

1 of 3

noun (1)

ˈmu̇r How to pronounce moor (audio)
1
chiefly British : an expanse of open rolling infertile land
2
: a boggy area
especially : one that is peaty and dominated by grasses and sedges

moor

2 of 3

verb

moored; mooring; moors

transitive verb

: to make fast with or as if with cables, lines, or anchors : anchor

intransitive verb

1
: to secure a boat by mooring : anchor
2
: to be made fast

Moor

3 of 3

noun (2)

ˈmu̇r How to pronounce Moor (audio)
1
: one of the Arab and Berber conquerors of Spain
2
: berber
Moorish
ˈmu̇r-ish How to pronounce Moor (audio)
adjective

Synonyms

Noun (1)

Verb

Example Sentences

Noun (1) as she wanders the windswept moor, the novel's heroine vows that she will never marry the vicar a mysterious figure who was said to have haunted the moors of southwest England Verb We found a harbor and moored the boat there for the night. The boat was moored alongside the dock. We need to find a place to moor for the night.
Recent Examples on the Web
Noun
The view from the dining room is already shaping up, as lush mounds of bluestar (Amsonia hubrichtii), catmint (Nepeta x faassenii Walker’s Low) and Baptisia Ivory Towers consort with purple moor grass (Molinia caerulea subsp. New York Times, 2 Mar. 2022 One measure would create a six-cents-per-pound tax on fish exports and a six-cent-per-foot mooring fee for any vessels that anchor or moor in Alaska harbors. Iris Samuels, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Feb. 2022 Warm moor mud and cocoa essence are the first application followed by a body brushing and fondue before being wrapped in a warm blanket. Ramsey Qubein, Forbes, 30 Jan. 2022 Tramon Thompson, 25, of the 6500 block of S. Kenwood Ave, Chicago, was charged with expired license plate, no valid drivers license, unlawful possession of cannabis by driver and operating an uninsured moor vehicle, at 1:18 p.m. Nov. 4. Pioneer Press Staff, chicagotribune.com, 15 Nov. 2021 When bad things go down in Charles Dickens, the scene is set in a forbidding moor. Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2021 Omar’s cohort stares at a television in an underfurnished room; the four stand in artful compositions, waiting to use a pay phone that sits glowing on the island’s wide moor. Helen Shaw, Vulture, 1 May 2021 Because this bank was shallow and prone to sand deposits, piers perpendicular to the bank were installed into deeper waters for vessels to moor. Richard Campanella, NOLA.com, 1 Jan. 2021 Conan Doyle explored the moor with journalist Bertram Fletcher Robinson. Eliza Mcgraw, WSJ, 29 Oct. 2020
Verb
After that, the ship was moored five miles off the coast of Yemen, where it was used as an F.S.O.—a kind of floating gas station, alongside which other tankers could moor and fill up—at the end of a pipeline that led to Yemen’s oil fields in Marib. Ed Caesar, The New Yorker, 25 June 2022 The Coast Guard’s Base Los Angeles/Long Beach is still building piers and other shore facilities necessary to moor and maintain the first two Offshore Patrol Cutters. Craig Hooper, Forbes, 16 June 2022 The company plans to moor a 100-foot-long barge at the site with equipment to support divers and store artifacts that are removed from the water for analysis and documentation. Washington Post, 2 May 2022 The company plans to moor a 100-foot-long barge at the site with equipment to support divers and store artifacts that are removed from the water for analysis and documentation. Washington Post, 2 May 2022 Grounds planted with lavender, freesia and olive trees run down to a private beachfront with cabanas on oceanfront decking and two pontoons are ready to moor arriving yachts. Lauren Jade Hill, Forbes, 26 May 2022 The company plans to moor a 100-foot-long barge at the site with equipment to support divers and store artifacts that are removed from the water for analysis and documentation. Washington Post, 2 May 2022 The company plans to moor a 100-foot-long barge at the site with equipment to support divers and store artifacts that are removed from the water for analysis and documentation. Washington Post, 2 May 2022 Sutton Lake has 40 miles of shoreline to explore and clear waters to swim in backed by forested hills, with hundreds of coves to moor in for a night under the inky skies of central West Virginia. Terry Ward, Travel + Leisure, 13 May 2022 See More

Word History

Etymology

Noun (1)

Middle English mor, from Old English mōr; akin to Old High German muor moor

Verb

Middle English moren; akin to Middle Dutch meren, maren to tie, moor

Noun (2)

Middle English More, from Anglo-French, from Latin Maurus inhabitant of Mauretania

First Known Use

Noun (1)

before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Verb

15th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense

Noun (2)

14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of moor was before the 12th century
BNC: 4388 COCA: 17855
moor

noun

 (especially BrE) ADJECTIVE | PREPOSITION | PHRASES ADJECTIVE➤bleak, desolate, open, wild, windswept荒涼的沼澤；開闊的沼澤地；荒蕪的沼澤；受大風侵襲的沼澤PREPOSITION➤across the moor穿過沼澤◇the wind blowing across the moors吹過沼澤的風➤down from the moor從沼澤往下◇the slopes leading down from the moor從沼澤地往下的斜坡➤on the moor在沼澤地上◇We got lost on the moors.我們在沼澤地裏迷路了。➤over the moor越過沼澤◇Don't walk over the moors in bad weather.天氣不好的時候不要徒步過沼澤。PHRASES➤the edge of the moor沼澤邊緣

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