Moor vs African - What's the difference?
moor | african |
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.
Of or pertaining to Africa.
A native of Africa; also one ethnologically belonging to an African race.
* 2007 , African Immigrant Religions in America (ISBN 0814762409):
As a noun moor
is (historical) a member of an ancient berber people from numidia.As an adjective african is
african.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 .
Derived terms
* moorland * moortopSee also
* bog * marsh * swampEtymology 2
From (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)Anagrams
* * English terms with multiple etymologies ----african
English
Alternative forms
* AfricAdjective
(-)Derived terms
* African elephant * African hemp * African marigold * African oak * African penguin * African teak * African violet * North African * South AfricanHyponyms
* Maghrebi * Congolese * Ethiopian * Ugandan * Zimbabwean * MozambicanNoun
(en noun)- Africans constitute significantly growing populations not only in major urban centers such as New York, Washington, D.C., Chicago, Los Angeles, Houston, and Atlanta but also in small and midsize cities in states such as Ohio and Maine.
