Moored vs Doored - What's the difference?
moored | doored |
(moor)
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.
(door)
A that ensures the door cannot be opened without the key.
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, chapter=20 Any flap, etc. that opens like a door.
A non-physical into the next world, a particular feeling, a company, etc.
(computing, dated) A . See (BBS door).
As verbs the difference between moored and doored
is that moored is (moor) while doored is (door).moored
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* *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
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* * English terms with multiple etymologies ----doored
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*door
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(en noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly,
citation, passage=‘No. I only opened the door a foot and put my head in. The street lamps shine into that room. I could see him. He was all right. Sleeping like a great grampus. Poor, poor chap.’}}
