moor

Значение (English)

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
2. A game preserve consisting of moorland.

Verb

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

Synonyms

berth

moorland

heath

bog

tie

marsh

tie up

secure

fasten

anchor

⚓

tether

attach

fen

fix

dock

bind

quagmire

bond

affix

morass

stick

swamp

park

🏞️

tie on

hitch

wharf

field

plain

join

blackamoor

wasteland

wetland

link

🔗

wilderness

appoint

marshland

set

prairie

connect

heathland

quag

determine

associate

peatbog

peat bog

peat moss

peg

pest

pestilence

pin

plague

post

reeve

restrain

rig

rope

🪢

shackle

sign on

slack

sod

stake

steppe

stick on

stick to the pan

strap

swampland

tack

tie down

come to anchor

toggle

trammel

tundra

underwrite

vouchsafe

wold

come alongside

Moslem

secure from

tie to

moorman

swampy ground

moss-land

stop

🛑

turf swamp

adhere

assure

badlands

band

belay

bracket

brooch

cast anchor

catch

chain

clasp

confine

expanse

fetter

fixate

float

frame

frame up

frap

gird

handcuff

hang on

heather

hooked

hover

implant

imprison

indent

indenture

infix

insure

lea

make fast

manacle

meadow

mortgage

mount

mountain

⛰️

murrain

muskeg

pasture

peat

Произносится как (IPA)

/moː/

Этимология (English)

Inherited from среднеанглийский: mor

Inherited from староанглийский: mōr

Cognate with валлийский: môr

Cognate with староирландский: muir

Cognate with шотландский: muir

Cognate with нидерландский: moer

Cognate with Old Saxon: mōr

Cognate with Old Saxon: mūr

Cognate with немецкий: Moor

Cognate with готский: 𐌼𐌰𐍂𐌴𐌹

Inherited from среднеанглийский: moren

Inherited from староанглийский: *mārian

Cognate with нидерландский: meren

In summary

From Middle English mor, from Old English mōr, from Proto-West Germanic *mōr, from Proto-Germanic *mōraz, from Proto-Indo-European *móri. Cognates include Welsh môr, Old Irish muir (from Proto-Celtic *mori); Scots muir, Dutch moer, Old Saxon mōr, Old Saxon mūr, German Moor and perhaps also Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐍂𐌴𐌹 (marei). See mere.