Anchored vs Moored - What's the difference?
anchored | moored |
(anchor)
(heraldry) Having the extremities turned back, like the flukes of an anchor.
(moor)
an extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath
* Carew
a game preserve consisting of moorland
To cast anchor or become fastened.
(nautical) 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 .
To secure or fix firmly.
As verbs the difference between anchored and moored
is that anchored is (anchor) while moored is (moor).As an adjective anchored
is (heraldry) having the extremities turned back, like the flukes of an anchor.anchored
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(-)- an anchored cross
Anagrams
*moored
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
* *moor
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Usage notes
(more) is not a homophone in Northern UK accents, while (mooer) is homophonous only in those accents.Etymology 1
(etyl) . See (m).Noun
(en noun)- A cold, biting wind blew across the moor , and the travellers hastened their step.
- In her girlish age she kept sheep on the moor .
