Moor vs Hinterland - What's the difference?
moor | hinterland |
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.
The land immediately next to, and inland from, a coast.
The rural territory surrounding an urban area, especially a port.
A remote or undeveloped area, a backwater.
(figuratively) That which is unknown or unexplored about someone.
(figuratively) Anything vague or ill-defined, especially one that is ill understood.
* 2007 , Lesley Jeffries,
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As nouns the difference between moor and hinterland
is that moor is (historical) a member of an ancient berber people from numidia while hinterland is hinterland.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 ----hinterland
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Noun
(wikipedia hinterland) (en noun)Textual Construction of the Female Body, abstract
- This approach utilizes concepts such as naming, describing, contrasting and equating to access the hinterland between structure and meaning, and to map out the subtle ways in which texts can naturalise the ideology of the perfect female form.