What's the difference between heather and moorland?

Heather


Definition:

  • (n.) Heath.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Heather De Mian, who has live-streamed the months of protests after Brown’s death, was among seven people detained by officers outside the Ferguson police department, according to observers.
  • (2) Heather Titley said she saw Cameron grab the collar of Noye's shirt and scuffle with him at the Swanley interchange of the M25.
  • (3) Words included in this title include mistletoe, gerbil, acorn, goldfish, guinea pig, dandelion, starling, fern, willow, conifer, heather, buttercup, sycamore, holly, ivy, and conker.
  • (4) "Landlords have a duty to give assured shorthold tenants at least two months' notice when evicting them," says Heather Kennedy of Digs.
  • (5) Eight physiological variables (skin conductance, heart rate, pulse amplitude, Heather index, eye blinking, horizontal eye movements, respiration rate, blood pressure) and five psychological variables (self-rated anger, irritability, tenseness, motivation, indifference) were monitored.
  • (6) However, as Heather Wildsmith of the National Autistic Society says: “There’s definitely momentum.
  • (7) 1.20pm BST My colleague Heather Stewart writes: Mario Draghi, president of the European Central Bank, has delivered an emergency quarter-point cut in interest rates in a bid to kickstart the recession-hit eurozone economy.
  • (8) The long days here – Scotland has four hours more daylight than London during summer – are driest and sunniest in May and June, although July is the warmest and August is the time to catch the purple of the Highland heather.
  • (9) Top of the list of concerns will be the FA investigation into the independent board’s Heather Rabbatts , the chair of the IAB, which was launched after a complaint from two FA councillors about her criticism of the FA’s handling of the Carneiro case.
  • (10) Heather Sohl, WWF-UK's chief species adviser, said of the latest figures: "The scale of poaching we are now seeing is extremely worrying.
  • (11) Later that day, over dinner in a private Catalan castle, I am sitting opposite Hollywood's Heather Graham and Jason Silva, her film-producer boyfriend, who have also flown in for the feast, watching as the star of Boogie Nights and The Hangover delicately transfers her food from her plate to her partner's.
  • (12) Heather MacDonald of the Manhattan Institute – employer of such luminaries as Iraq War stooge Judith Miller, invariably wrong William Kristol and racist hack Charles Murray – was willing to go even further than Marshall in placing the blame for women’s economic travails on alienation from “the family” and then further blaming women’s thoughts for turning women against where they belong.
  • (13) The chair of the FA’s inclusion advisory board, Heather Rabbatts, has expressed her “sadness and anger” at news of Carneiro’s departure.
  • (14) Heather Abbott, an amputee, said that she did not care about Tsarnaev’s fate.
  • (15) There are oceans between us and Isis,” former White House official Heather Hurlburt told the Guardian.
  • (16) More than a decade later when Lesléa Newman's Heather Has Two Mommies was published in the US a similar outcry followed, and the book was banned from libraries in many states.
  • (17) Taking a break from perusing storyboards that variously show Fellaini challenging the Saracens No8 Ernst Joubert as he leaps for a lineout and Humphrey avoiding tennis balls fired at him by Heather Watson, Garicoche adds: "Our style is going to be different.
  • (18) Observer economics editor Heather Stewart explains: When the US Federal Reserve starts to phase out its $85bn-a-month quantitative easing programme it could spark a rapid rise in global interest rates and “fire sales” of assets across the world’s financial markets, according to the International Monetary Fund.
  • (19) The jury was told that the News of the World had hacked phones to obtain a story about Paul McCartney having a row with his then wife Heather Mills and throwing their engagement ring out of a hotel window: the prosecution failed to take account of evidence in the possession of the police which indicated the paper had bought the story from someone who worked in the hotel.
  • (20) Heather Sidery Clarke, from Hastings, said: "Apart from being such unnecessary and primitively barbaric behaviour, genital mutilation is, in this day, a violent crime.

Moorland


Definition:

  • (n.) Land consisting of a moor or moors.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "We'll be watching them like hawks," said Jim Winkworth, a farmer and pub landlord, as he watched work starting on a bend in the Parrett between Burrowbridge and Moorland, two of the villages worst affected by the winter flooding.
  • (2) The Viking scheme, first unveiled in 2009, expects to exploit Shetland’s highly-exposed location and substantial winds coming off the north Atlantic, after it is built on about 50 square miles of moorland north of Lerwick on the island group’s main island.
  • (3) Even when we had 14 pairs here, the RSPB still wanted more, instead of dispelling the myth that the harrier could take gamekeepers’ livelihoods away.” Grouse moorland is “the best and the worst place for the hen harrier,” added Murphy.
  • (4) It would have involved 181 huge turbines each requiring concrete bases 20 ft deep, roads and cables, and would have destroyed a swathe of this rare peat moorland.
  • (5) During the summer there are regular guided rambles around the traditional Highland estate (a mix of farmed croft land, wood and moorland) and from Plockton to Kyle of Lochalsh, but it's worth keeping an eye out for special events and themed walks throughout the year.
  • (6) If driven grouse shooting, in which beaters are used to send more birds towards the guns, was banned, Mawle argued, the cost of keeping the moorlands in their attractive, wildlife-friendly state would have to be met by taxpayer.
  • (7) A spokesman for Avon and Somerset police said: "Earlier this morning local flood defences were breached and the water level in Moorland began rising.
  • (8) I'd like to say I tasted them first on some misty Irish moorland, or was fed them by grizzled crofters in the Scottish highlands (where they are known as tattie scones).
  • (9) Since 2000, 20 gamekeepers have been found guilty of “raptor persecution” or poisoning offences on grouse moorland, including one who killed a hen harrier in Scotland.
  • (10) It’s impossibly bleak – a fortress surrounded by vast moorland.
  • (11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Flooding in Northmoor Green (Moorland) in Somerset, UK, in February this year.
  • (12) The SDBC’s new plan includes “promoting and assisting the relocation of very flood vulnerable households out of the floodplain.” But, Stevens added: “The transition to something like that will be hugely painful and expensive.” Floods video 2 Flood waters overwhelm a junction in Moorland.
  • (13) The rest is mostly “rough grazing”, with 80% of the land defined as “permanent pasture moorland” – the kind of landscape enjoyed by Theresa May and her husband, Philip, on their regular visits to Snowdonia.
  • (14) It prompted a mini-reshuffle, with Home Office minister James Brokenshire promoted to Harper's position and Karen Bradley, Conservative MP for Staffordshire Moorlands, filling the former's position.
  • (15) The sheep in this almost feral flock have access to a small area of unmanaged moorland pasture but are otherwise restricted to the foreshore where they subsist largely on Laminaria spp.
  • (16) Ian Sample Environment Rural landscape of Farmland and peat moorland beyond, Forest of Bowland, Lancashire, UK.
  • (17) Moorland owners, Anderson explained to me, wanted to be allowed to move hen harrier nests.
  • (18) This is the first time it’s ever got anywhere near the house.” Moorland video Resident Mark Kirby and volunteer flood relief organiser Tim Holmes describe the plight of Moorland and the disaster response.
  • (19) She took on the newly created job of representing moorland owners a year ago, convinced she could find a bridge between apparently conflicting interests.
  • (20) Samples of arthropodes taken from forests, moorland and waters showed a comparatively similar spectrum of species.

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