Definition of Moor

1. 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.

Generic synonyms: Moslem, Muslim

2. Verb. Secure in or as if in a berth or dock. "Tie up the boat"
Exact synonyms: Berth, Tie Up
Specialized synonyms: Wharf
Generic synonyms: Fasten, Fix, Secure
Derivative terms: Berth, Mooring

3. Noun. Open land usually with peaty soil covered with heather and bracken and moss.
Exact synonyms: Moorland
Specialized synonyms: Marston Moor
Generic synonyms: Champaign, Field, Plain

4. Verb. Come into or dock at a wharf. "The big ship wharfed in the evening"
Exact synonyms: Berth, Wharf
Generic synonyms: Dock
Derivative terms: Berth, Wharf

5. Verb. Secure with cables or ropes. "Moor the boat"
Generic synonyms: Fasten, Fix, Secure
Derivative terms: Moorage, Mooring

Definition of Moor

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

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

3. 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.

4. v. i. To cast anchor; to become fast.

Definition of Moor

1. to secure a vessel by means of cables [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Medical Definition of Moor

1. Chiefly British term: an extensive area of open rolling infertile land consisting of sand, rock, or peat usually covered with heather, bracken, coarse grass and sphagnum moss, a boggy area of wasteland usually dominated by grasses and sedges growing in a thick layer of peat. (09 Oct 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Moor

moon carrot
moon curser
moon daisy
moon face
moon facies
moon on
moon ray
moon shell
moon shot
moon trefoil
moop
mooped
mooping
moops
moor (current term)
moor (current term)
moor-bird
moorage
moorages
moorball
moorbird
moorcock
moorcocks
Moore
Moore's lightning streaks
Moore's method
moored
Mooren's ulcer
mooress
moorfowl

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