Morale vs Morae - What's the difference?
morale | morae |
The capacity of people to maintain belief in an institution or a goal, or even in oneself and others.
* 2012 November 2, Ken Belson, "[http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/03/sports/new-york-city-marathon-will-not-be-held-sunday.html?hp&_r=0]," New York Times (retrieved 2 November 2012):
(mora)
(Scottish law) A delay in bringing a claim.
(poetics) A unit used to measure lines and stanzas of poetry.
* 1918 , Elcanon Isaacs, “The Metrical Basis of Hebrew Poetry”, in The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures , volume 35,
(phonology) A unit of syllable weight used in phonology, by which stress, foot structure, or timing of utterance is determined in some languages (e.g. Japanese).
(botany) Any tree of the genus Mora of large South American trees.
* 1904 , W.H. Hudson, Green Mansions, A Romance of the Tropical Forest
(finger-counting game)
An ancient Spartan military unit of about a sixth of the Spartan army, typically composed of hoplites.
As nouns the difference between morale and morae
is that morale is the capacity of people to maintain belief in an institution or a goal, or even in oneself and others while morae is (mora).morale
English
Noun
(wikipedia morale) (-)- After the layoffs morale was at an all time low, they were so dispirited nothing was getting done.
- Morale''' is an important quality in soldiers. With good '''morale they'll charge into a hail of bullets; without it they won't even cross a street.
- Proponents of the race — notably Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Mary Wittenberg, director of the marathon — said the event would provide a needed morale boost, as well as an economic one.
Synonyms
* esprit de corpsmorae
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Noun
(head)Anagrams
* * * ----mora
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en-noun)page 22:
- In the quantitative meters in Sanskrit a heavy syllable is considered to be equal to two morae' and a light syllable equivalent to one ' mora .
See also
* syllableDerived terms
* bimoraic * monomoraic * moraic * moraically * nonmoraicEtymology 2
New Latin from a botanical name, perhaps from Tupi.Noun
(en noun)- At length, somewhere about the centre of the wood, she led me to an immense mora tree, growing almost isolated, covering with its shade a large space of ground entirely free from undergrowth.