transcription, транскрипция: [ mʊə(r) ]
( moors, mooring, moored)
1.
A moor is an area of open and usually high land with poor soil that is covered mainly with grass and heather. ( mainly BRIT )
Colliford is higher, right up on the moors...
Exmoor National Park stretches over 265 square miles of moor.
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2.
If you moor a boat somewhere, you stop and tie it to the land with a rope or chain so that it cannot move away.
She had moored her barge on the right bank of the river...
I decided to moor near some tourist boats.
= tie up
VERB : V n , V
3.
The Moors were a Muslim people who established a civilization in North Africa and Spain between the 8th and the 15th century A.D.
N-COUNT : usu pl
4.
see also mooring