Moor vs Heather - What's the difference?
moor | heather |
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.
(botany) An evergreen plant, , with spiky leaves and small purple, pink, or white flowers.
(botany) The Ericaceae family.
(botany) Various species of the genus Erica .
(botany) Various species of the genus Cassiope .
A purple colour with a tint of pink and blue.
As nouns the difference between moor and heather
is that moor is an extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath while heather is an evergreen plant, species: Calluna vulgaris, with spiky leaves and small purple, pink, or white flowers.As a verb moor
is to cast anchor or become fastened.As an adjective heather is
of a purple colour with a tint with pink and blue.As a proper noun Heather is
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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 .