Moor

[mɔː;mʊə]

[mɔː;mʊə] or [mʊr]

解释:

(noun.) open land usually with peaty soil covered with heather and bracken and moss.

(noun.) 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.

(verb.) secure with cables or ropes; 'moor the boat'.

(verb.) come into or dock at a wharf; 'the big ship wharfed in the evening'.

(verb.) secure in or as if in a berth or dock; 'tie up the boat'.

克利夫顿录入--From WordNet

解释:

(n.) One of a mixed race inhabiting Morocco, Algeria, Tunis, and Tripoli, chiefly along the coast and in towns.

(n.) Any individual of the swarthy races of Africa or Asia which have adopted the Mohammedan religion.

(n.) An extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath.

(n.) A game preserve consisting of moorland.

(v. t.) 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.

(v. t.) Fig.: To secure, or fix firmly.

(v. i.) To cast anchor; to become fast.

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同义词及近义词：

n. [1]. Heath, extensive waste.[2]. Marsh, fen, swamp, bog, morass, slough, quagmire.

艾迪整理

解释:

n. a large tract of untilled ground often covered with heath and having a poor peaty soil: a heath.—ns. Moor′cock Moor′fowl the red grouse or heathcock found in moors; Moor′hen the female moor-fowl: the water-hen; Moor′-ill (Scot.) a kind of disease among cattle—also Red-water.—adjs. Moor′ish Moor′y resembling a moor: sterile: marshy: boggy.—n. Moor′land a tract of moor.

n. a member of the dark mixed Mauretanian and Arab race inhabiting Morocco and the Barbary coast: one of the Arab and Berber conquerors and occupants of Spain from 711 to 1492—same as Arab or Saracen: a dark-coloured person generally a negro.—n. Moor′ery a quarter inhabited by Moors.—adj. Moor′ish.

v.t. to fasten a ship by cable and anchor: to fix firmly.—v.i. to be fastened by cables or chains.—ns. Moor′age a place for mooring; Moor′ing act of mooring: that which serves to moor or confine a ship: in pl. the place or condition of a ship thus moored.

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