moor

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
美 /moː/

英文释义

名词 n.
  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.
  2. A game preserve consisting of moorland.
动词 v.
  1. To cast anchor or become fastened. intransitive
    — The vessel moored in the stream.
  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. transitive
    — They moored the boat to the wharf.
  3. To secure or fix firmly. transitive

词形变化

moors plural moors present,singular,third-person mooring participle,present moored participle,past moored past

词汇关系

反义词
unmoor
衍生词
Alston Moor Barnby Moor Blea Moor Bodmin Moor Broadmoor Buckland in the Moor Clayton-le-Moors Cleator Moor Clifton Moor Cranmoor Crosland Moor Dartmoor Draycott in the Moors East Moors Exmoor Goss Moor Holme-on-Spalding-Moor Holton le Moor Lee Moor Lower Moor Low Moor Marston Moor moorball moorband moorberry moorbird moorburn moor buzzard moorcock Moorcroft moorer moor-evil moorfowl moor grass moorhen moorill moorish moorland moorlog moor macaque moorman Moor Monkton moorpan Moor Park Moor Row moorsman moorstone moortop moorwort moory Rannoch Moor Thornton-le-Moors Ushaw Moor West Moor West Moors Widecombe in the Moor moorable moorage mooring mooring buoy mooring can mooring post moor up remoor unmoor unmoored
并列词
berth cleat dock

词源

词源 1
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.
词源 2
From Middle English moren, from unattested Old English *mārian, from Proto-West Germanic *mairōn (“to moor, fasten to”), related to *maida- (“post”), from Proto-Indo-European *mēyt-, *meyt-, from *mēy-, *mey- (“stake, pole”). Cognate with Dutch meren (“to moor”), marren (“to bind”).
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