What's the difference between moor and saracen?

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.

Saracen


Definition:

  • (n.) Anciently, an Arab; later, a Mussulman; in the Middle Ages, the common term among Christians in Europe for a Mohammedan hostile to the crusaders.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 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.
  • (2) In AD831 the Saracens took control of Palermo and transformed the original seventh century cathedral into a large mosque called Gami, until the Norman conquest of the city returned the building to Christian worship.
  • (3) The government claimed 11 out of the 21 fatalities died from gunshot wounds, the Indonesian Communion of Churches put the death toll at 23 The Indonesian government has not given up using force in east Timor either: • On 23rd March 1997 7 Timorese youths were killed and 42 wounded by security forces at the Mahkota Hotel in Dili, East Timor, as they tried to meet UN special ambassador Jamsheed Marker • In the first 8 months of 1998 there were 37 confirmed extra-judicial killings in East Timor • On 20th January 1999 Colonel Halim admitted Saracen and Saladin armoured vehicles were being used in East Timor • In January 1999 paramilitaries trained by the Indonesian army carried out killings in the village of Galitas in the Covalima district of East Timor.
  • (4) Stanley, 23, part of one of rugby union’s most famous families who has represented England at under-16 and under-18 level and has played for Saracens, revealed he contemplated suicide because he was scared telling the truth would ruin his rugby career.
  • (5) Less startlingly but more intriguingly to rugby fans, in June Seattle-Old Puget Sound Beach, a leading US rugby club, changed its name to Seattle Saracens .
  • (6) In leafy Southwell, dominated by the minster, which dates back to the 13th century, Ukip has won over the owner of the Saracens Head hotel, where Charles I spent his last free night in 1646.
  • (7) Also quite funny was what Boris Johnson said in response to Trump’s claims about urban no-go areas – “The only reason I wouldn’t go to some parts of New York is the real risk of meeting Donald Trump” – and the Twitter TrumpFacts hashtag, which spoofed Britain’s supposed radicalisation with, for example, a picture of a Saracens Head pub sign captioned: “Even England’s famous pubs are controlled by Islamic radicals.” That’s the strongest way of responding to him: to point at the shitting man and laugh.
  • (8) I know we’ve never been richer in a global sense but I don’t think that the people of Possilpark feel much of that.” Just across Saracen Road is a building that illustrates this part of Possilpark’s story.
  • (9) With bright pink plate-glass windows and high walls clad in cream panels and battleship-grey zinc, Possilpark heath centre imposes itself on Saracen Street.
  • (10) You are so worried about what people will think and I thought I couldn’t be a macho rugby player the way I was, and there was nothing else I wanted to do with my life.” Stanley joined Saracens in 2010 and spent four years at the north London club before joining the sevens circuit in 2014, playing in five tournaments in with England.
  • (11) On Wednesday two London-based Saracens, the England and Lions fly-half Owen Farrell and the Springbok scrum-half Neil de Kock, were in the city to develop the relationship .
  • (12) I have an English grandmother, somewhere or another an Italian great-great-grandmother; and you can see from my Slavic cheekbones that my mother comes from West Prussia ... My name is derived from the Arab pirates called Saracens in the Middle Ages.
  • (13) So England got Andrew – a far less abrasive option than either of the former national coaches – and Jones moved on, first of all back to Saracens, then on to Japan, for three years coaching the club side Suntory Sungoliath and since 2012 the national side, with whom he is currently based in Bristol preparing for their opening pool game, against South Africa in Brighton.
  • (14) The government's answer was to introduce new and harsher laws, to mobilise its armed forces, and to send saracens, armed vehicles, and soldiers into the townships in a massive show of force designed to intimidate the people.
  • (15) An alpha-L-rhamnosidase from the seeds of Fagopyrum esculentum (saracen corn) has previously been identified, and the effect of the enzyme on rhamnoisic bonds has been studied with various flavonoid glycosides.

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