Moor vs Gorse - What's the difference?
moor | gorse |
an extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath
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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.
Evergreen shrub, of the genus , having spiny leaves and yellow flowers.
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As nouns the difference between moor and gorse
is that moor is (historical) a member of an ancient berber people from numidia while gorse is evergreen shrub, of the genus , having spiny leaves and yellow flowers.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 ----gorse
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Noun
(wikipedia gorse)The Three Corpse Trick, chapter=5 , passage=The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds. Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common.}}
Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli, passage=Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe. Some call it geoeconomics, but it's geopolitics too. The current power play consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate big free trade and investment agreements.}}