What's the difference between moorland and morland?
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.
Morland
Definition:
(n.) Moorland.
Example Sentences:
(1) We don't want to confirm Catherine Morland's description of British history in Northanger Abbey : "the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all".
(2) Morland was identified by his mother-in-law, who gave her name only as Janet, as she left a bouquet of red and white flowers at the scene.
(3) He also published work under various pen names: as Patrick Ruell, he wrote a string of light-hearted thrillers stuffed with literary references; as Dick Morland, he wrote the dystopian novel Albion!
(4) Queen of psychological thrillers Val McDermid is rewriting Northanger Abbey, about the gothic novel-obsessed Catherine Morland.
(5) The victims, father-of-five Kris Jarvis and 29-year-old father-of-two John Morland, died on Thursday evening in Purley on Thames, after apparently being hit by a black BMW convertible.
(6) The practice, claimed Morland, made its organic licence fee growth look spectacular.
(7) Morland, who received legal letters after publishing research questioning autonomy's revenue model, says Autonomy had to sell before it was too late.
(8) Turner's contemporary George Morland spent time in Margate after falling for a lady of dubious reputation; and Vincent van Gogh lodged along the coast in Ramsgate (in Spencer Square) after taking a teaching job in the town.
(9) Work by financial analyst Paul Morland, now of Peel Hunt, backed up by the unnamed Autonomy employee, suggests that in the two years after acquiring Zantaz, Autonomy allegedly renegotiated the long life storage deals with its clients.
(10) Instead, the inquiry, chaired by Sir Michael Morland, was encouraged to believe that one of Nelson's own clients, a former IRA prisoner called Colin Duffy, had in fact been responsible.
(11) All your pretty girls are untaught: sister Lizzie, of course; Emma with her reading lists; imbecilic Catherine Morland.