(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.
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.