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Moor vs Brood - What's the difference?

moor | brood |

As nouns the difference between moor and brood

is that moor is (historical) a member of an ancient berber people from numidia while brood is .

moor

English

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)
  • an extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath
  • A cold, biting wind blew across the moor , and the travellers hastened their step.
  • * Carew
  • In her girlish age she kept sheep on the moor .
  • a game preserve consisting of moorland
  • Derived terms
    * moorland * moortop
    See also
    * bog * marsh * swamp

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • 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.
  • brood

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The young of certain animals, especially a group of young birds or fowl hatched at one time by the same mother.
  • * Bible, Luke xiii. 34
  • As a hen doth gather her brood under her wings.
  • (uncountable) The young of any egg-laying creature, especially if produced at the same time.
  • The eggs and larvae of social insects such as bees, ants and some wasps, especially when gathered together in special brood chambers or combs within the colony.
  • The children in one family.
  • That which is bred or produced; breed; species.
  • * Chapman
  • Flocks of the airy brood , / (Cranes, geese or long-necked swans).
  • (mining) Heavy waste in tin and copper ores.
  • See also

    * flock, litter, young, get, issue, offspring, posterity, progeny, seed, kin * cicada

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To keep an egg warm to make it hatch.
  • In some species of birds, both the mother and father brood the eggs.
  • To protect.
  • Under the rock was a midshipman fish, brooding a mass of eggs.
  • To dwell upon moodily and at length.
  • He sat brooding about the upcoming battle, fearing the outcome.
  • * Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Brooding over all these matters, the mother felt like one who has evoked a spirit.
  • * Tennyson
  • when with downcast eyes we muse and brood

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