Motored vs Moored - What's the difference?
motored | moored |
(motor)
A machine or device that converts any form of energy into mechanical energy, or imparts motion.
(lb) A motor car, or automobile.
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*:It was flood-tide along Fifth Avenue; motor , brougham, and victoria swept by on the glittering current; pretty women glanced out from limousine and tonneau; young men of his own type, silk-hatted, frock-coated, the crooks of their walking sticks tucked up under their left arms, passed on the Park side.
(lb) A source of power for something, an inspiration, a driving force.
(biology) describing neurons that create the ability to move
(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.
As verbs the difference between motored and moored
is that motored is (motor) while moored is (moor).motored
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Verb
(head)motor
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(wikipedia motor)Alternative forms
* motour (very rare)Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* engineDerived terms
* electric motor * linear motor * motorbike * motorcycle * motorcyclist * motorise * motorist * motor oil * motor scooter * motor trade * motor unit * motor vehicle * outboard motor * rocket motor * shaded-pole motorAdjective
(-)- She has excellent motor skills.
Derived terms
* motor unitExternal links
* * ----moored
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(head)Anagrams
* *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 .