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Moored vs Mooned - What's the difference?

moored | mooned |

As verbs the difference between moored and mooned

is that moored is (moor) while mooned is (moon).

As an adjective mooned is

(poetic) of or resembling the moon; symbolized by the moon.

moored

English

Verb

(head)
  • (moor)

    • Anagrams

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    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.

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    * * English terms with multiple etymologies ----

    mooned

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (moon)

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • (poetic) Of or resembling the moon; symbolized by the moon.
  • * Milton
    • Th' angelic squadron bright / Turn'd fiery red, sharp'ning in mooned horns / Their phalanx