What's the difference between marsh and moor?

Marsh


Definition:

  • (n.) A tract of soft wet land, commonly covered partially or wholly with water; a fen; a swamp; a morass.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) the EcoR1 fragment of 8.6 kbp length which contains the oriC region (Marsh and Worcel, 1977; v. Meyenburg et al., 1977; Yasuda and Hirota, 1977) is missing.
  • (2) The Fellowship combines the academic rigour of an MBA with the reflective and ideological framework of a wellness retreat in Bali; without the sun and spa treatments, but with the added element of the formidable Dame Mary Marsh, a great example of a woman leading as a former headteacher, charity chief executive, NED and leadership development campaigner.
  • (3) In a salt marsh in the Westerschelde, samples were taken from soil and vegetation during 15 months.
  • (4) We compared the abilities of pupfish, mosquitofish and guppies to control mosquitoes in wastewater marshes.
  • (5) The structure determined here for Amb a V is topologically similar to the structure determined previously for the homologous allergenic protein Amb t V [Metzler, W. J., Valentine, K., Roebber, M., Friedrichs, M. S., Marsh, D., & Mueller, L. (1992) Biochemistry 31, 5117-5127]; however, significant differences exist in the packing of side chains in the hydrophobic core of the molecules.
  • (6) These hosts were examined from twelve different salt marshes and estuaries around the coasts of France (seven on the Channel, three on the Atlantic Ocean and two on the Mediterranean sea).
  • (7) A website has been set up by Shepway council giving information on the proposal for a Romney Marshes Nuclear Research and Disposal Facility.
  • (8) The repellent deet (N,N-diethyl-3-methylbenzamide) was tested against the mosquito Aedes dorsalis in a coastal salt marsh in California.
  • (9) For the first time in 30 years, and possibly longer, fresh water from deep underground is not filling the ditches and reedbeds of the 40-hectare reserve known for its bitterns, water voles and marsh harriers.
  • (10) The most famous is Borough Market (the pioneer but has the tendency to bankrupt) but Maltby Street (weekends only) in Bermondsey and Lower Marsh Street (weekdays) in Waterloo are worth a detour.
  • (11) Billie had just come out of Doctor Who so it was a weird time – the paparazzi were hounding her and I think Marsh even became our getaway driver a few times, the poor man.
  • (12) Asked how long Cameron should have to make changes, Marsh said: "I think he has had long enough."
  • (13) At Pelican Island, a 2.5 mile strip in the Barataria Bay, crews used 2.5m cubic yards of sand and silt mined from the Gulf of Mexico to build dunes and marshes, and rolled out protective fences around newly planted grasses.
  • (14) More than a half million pounds of DDT were applied to control mosquitoes in salt marsh estuaries of Cape May County, New Jersey, from 1946 to 1966.
  • (15) Willcox and Marsh [1978] have proposed a hypothesis relating IgE production and liability to become allergic.
  • (16) They come to us alive with intentionality, describing themselves in movement, waltzing through the ballroom, trudging through the marsh after wildfowl, racing horses, cutting hay.
  • (17) 150 soil samples were collected, 90 from Nile Valley and Delta, 36 from desert and 24 from salt marshes.
  • (18) Scotland’s powerful salmon fishery and farming lobbies have repeatedly resisted or criticised beaver reintroductions, including blocking a plan for a second official release scheme at Insh Marshes national nature reserve near Kingussie in the Cairngorms – only 35 miles north of Loch Rannoch.
  • (19) Plasma melatonin was measured at the summer and winter solstices and the autumn and spring equinoxes in Romney Marsh sheep held under natural conditions in South Australia (35 degrees S).
  • (20) Three simulated marsh systems were constructed, containing sediment, marsh plants, oysters, blue crabs, fiddler crabs, and two species of top minnows.

Moor


Definition:

  • (n.) One of a mixed race inhabiting Morocco, Algeria, Tunis, and Tripoli, chiefly along the coast and in towns.
  • (n.) Any individual of the swarthy races of Africa or Asia which have adopted the Mohammedan religion.
  • (n.) An extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath.
  • (n.) A game preserve consisting of moorland.
  • (v. t.) 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.
  • (v. t.) Fig.: To secure, or fix firmly.
  • (v. i.) To cast anchor; to become fast.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Among its signatories were Michael Moore, Oliver Stone, Noam Chomsky and Danny Glover.
  • (2) The Cole-Moore effect, which was found here only under a specific set of conditions, thus may be a special case rather than the general property of the membrane.
  • (3) There is a certain degree of swagger, a sudden interruption of panache, as Alan Moore enters the rather sterile Waterstones office where he has agreed to speak to me.
  • (4) His office - with a floor-to-ceiling glass wall offering views over a Bradford suburb and distant moors - is devoid of knick-knacks or memorabilia.
  • (5) Tim Moore, senior economist at Markit, said: "Construction is no longer the weakest link in the UK economy.
  • (6) Top 10 Arpad Cseh Senior investment director, UBS Alice La Trobe Weston Executive director, head of European credit research, MSIM Morgan Stanley Katie Garrett Executive director, senior engineer, Goldman Sachs Alix Ainsley, Charlotte Cherry H R director, group operations (job share), Lloyds Banking Group Matt Dawson Director for business development, The Instant Group Angela Kitching, Hannah Pearce Head of external affairs (job share), Age UK Morwen Williams Head of newsgathering operations, BBC Georgina Faulkner Head of Sky multisports, Sky Maggie Stilwell Managing partner for talent, UK & Ireland, EY Sarah Moore Partner, PwC
  • (7) Trump might say that is what he wants to happen but for us, that’s deeply upsetting,” says Moore, who sits on the board of the Center Against Sexual and Family Violence and expects the case to have a chilling effect on reports of abuse.
  • (8) A Catholic boys’ school has reversed its permission to allow civil rights drama Freeheld, starring Julianne Moore and Ellen Page as a lesbian couple, to shoot on location in New York State.
  • (9) Colleagues involved in similar Telegraph stings this week included Michael Moore, the Scottish secretary, Ed Davey, a business minister, and Steve Webb, the pensions minister.
  • (10) Rowan Moore is architecture critic of the Observer Conran retrospective, New Review page 36
  • (11) When researching his book, Moore could see from Margaret Roberts's student days onwards that she was conscious of the attention being paid to her.
  • (12) It’s a huge, huge tragedy.” Kortney Moore, 18, said she was in a writing class when a shot came through the window and hit the teacher in the head.
  • (13) In the latest round of the epic divorce battle between Michelle and Scot Young, the judge, Mr Justice Moor, is making a fresh attempt to discover how much the property dealer is worth.
  • (14) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Fishing boats moored in the harbour at Clovelly.
  • (15) A retrospective study was done on 116 patients who received an Austin Moore prosthesis at Tygerberg Hospital between 1982 and 1983.
  • (16) I think we’re finally at a place in culture where a character being gay or lesbian isn’t taboo, especially for teenagers – the target audience for a lot of these summer blockbusters,” says screenwriter Graham Moore, who won an Oscar for the Alan Turing biopic The Imitation Game .
  • (17) Djami Marika stood at the edge of a pristine Arnhem Land beach and shook his head at the boat moored across the channel.
  • (18) A lot, without it being thrust down their throats.” The app will add more stories over time, with Moore saying American narrators will be included, and ultimately translations into other languages too.
  • (19) The technique holds essentially to the reconnaissance of these types of fibers in fragments or pellicles of said specimens, stained by the methods of Azan and Weigert-Moore, modified, without needing to take succour in histologic methodology applicable to other preparations, which, according to the A., would cause a break of continuity in the observation, and also in the interpretation of findings, and this is not always easy to be re-instated with ease and precision.
  • (20) Many of Long’s pieces are fragile and fleeting: a stripe of un-mown grass in an otherwise close cropped lawn at the Henry Moore foundation , a misty circle in Scotland that lasted only until the day warmed up, a stripe of green grass left by plucking daisies, or paintings in wet mud that dry out and crumble.