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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.

Moot


Definition:

  • (v.) See 1st Mot.
  • (n.) A ring for gauging wooden pins.
  • (v. t.) To argue for and against; to debate; to discuss; to propose for discussion.
  • (v. t.) Specifically: To discuss by way of exercise; to argue for practice; to propound and discuss in a mock court.
  • (v. i.) To argue or plead in a supposed case.
  • (n.) A meeting for discussion and deliberation; esp., a meeting of the people of a village or district, in Anglo-Saxon times, for the discussion and settlement of matters of common interest; -- usually in composition; as, folk-moot.
  • (v.) A discussion or debate; especially, a discussion of fictitious causes by way of practice.
  • (a.) Subject, or open, to argument or discussion; undecided; debatable; mooted.
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Example Sentences:

  • (1) In his interim Digital Britain report published last month, Carter called for the creation of a "second institution ... with public purpose at its heart" to rival the BBC and mooted the merger of Channel 4 into a wider entity, potentially involving parts of BBC Worldwide, the corporation's commercial arm.
  • (2) The move, first mooted two months ago, has been instigated with Jol's blessing and the new man was quick to insist he had spent "many hours" talking with his compatriot prior to accepting the position, even if his arrival effectively dilutes the manager's powerbase at the club.
  • (3) The people were free, the dictator was dead, a mooted massacre had been averted – and all this without any obvious boots on the ground.
  • (4) The debate over whether to start with supply-side (investor) or demand-side (consumer) measures is a moot one, once confidence is at a low.
  • (5) A reason for Stepanenko’s extrication was also mooted – he and his family visited Crimea, annexed by Russia, in 2015 and did not hide the fact, protesting that it is simply part of Ukraine.
  • (6) The participation of the peritrophic membrane in a midgut barrier to infection of C. tarsalis, and many other mosquito species, by arboviruses is considered a moot point.
  • (7) UUP to leave Northern Ireland’s power-sharing executive Read more The revival of the independent monitoring commission (IMC), which had the task of examining the status of IRA and loyalist paramilitary ceasefires before devolution was restored nearly a decade ago, has been mooted as a way to rebuild the unionist community’s trust in republican goodwill and deter future ceasefire breaches.
  • (8) A rail link has long been mooted, with proposals released earlier this year for a project that would provide trains every 10 minutes to the airport, servicing an estimated six million people a year.
  • (9) Several other roles have been mooted for Brooks, though the company downplayed suggestions that she would run Storyful, a Dublin-based social media news agency started by the former RTÉ current affairs presenter Mark Little, or manage the Sun’s digital operations.
  • (10) But the project has been plagued by cost problems since it was first mooted under the last Labour government.
  • (11) Marriage equality could be a reality by end of the year, says George Brandis Read more The attorney general, George Brandis , told Sky News on Sunday the government’s mooted plebiscite on the issue would be held shortly after the 2016 election and before the end of the year.
  • (12) The most plausible explanation for Kennedy’s disinterest in the question is that he believes it will be moot because all of the state bans will fall.
  • (13) Separately, competition rules mean that business secretary Vince Cable must make a quasi-judicial ruling about whether to refer the mooted merger to the Competition Commission on grounds of a threat to national security.
  • (14) The mooted changes would be more likely to have broader effect.
  • (15) The protests, the product of rising tensions linked to mooted early elections, spending cuts and political upheavals in neighbouring Thailand and Singapore, echo events across the Muslim world.
  • (16) Michael Fallon was speaking up for millions up and down the country.” Peter Bone, MP for Wellingborough, said: “No 10 and Mr Fallon are saying the same thing, but he is reflecting more the words you hear on the doorstep.” Fallon’s comments followed Cameron’s pledge to make changes to the principle of freedom of movement of workers within the EU – a “red line” in a mooted renegotiation of the UK’s membership terms.
  • (17) One mooted solution is to cut the campaign period in half so that the vote would be held on 18 December.
  • (18) • Was the Saints’ victory this weekend really down to the factors I mooted above, or was it actually just because they got back to eating Popeyes chicken before the game ?
  • (19) In the wake of the Scottish referendum result , it was mooted in a BBC discussion that Britain has a “poverty of perspective” issue.
  • (20) The IMF describes the markets’ so-called “taper tantrum” earlier this year, after Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke mooted the idea of “tapering” QE, as a “mini stress test”, which helped to reveal how investors might respond as monetary policy returns to normal.

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