Moor vs. More

an extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath

Example: ‘A cold, biting wind blew across the moor, and the travellers hastened their step.’;

a game preserve consisting of moorland

To cast anchor or become fastened.

To fix or secure (e.g. a vessel) in a particular place by casting anchor, or by fastening with ropes, cables or chains or the like

Example: ‘the vessel was moored in the stream’; ‘they moored the boat to the wharf.’;

(transitive) To secure or fix firmly.

One of a mixed race inhabiting Morocco, Algeria, Tunis, and Tripoli, chiefly along the coast and in towns.

Any individual of the swarthy races of Africa or Asia which have adopted the Mohammedan religion.

An extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath.

Example: ‘In her girlish age she kept sheep on the moor.’;

A game preserve consisting of moorland.

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.

Fig.: To secure, or fix firmly.

To cast anchor; to become fast.

Example: ‘On oozy ground his galleys moor.’;

one of the Muslim people of north Africa; of mixed Arab and Berber descent; converted to Islam in the 8th century; conqueror of Spain in the 8th century

open land usually with peaty soil covered with heather and bracken and moss

secure in or as if in a berth or dock;

Example: ‘tie up the boat’;

come into or dock at a wharf;

Example: ‘the big ship wharfed in the evening’;

secure with cables or ropes;

Example: ‘moor the boat’;

comparative of many: in greater number. Used for a discrete quantity.

Example: ‘More people are arriving.’; ‘There are more ways to do this than I can count.’;

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Example: ‘I want more soup;’; ‘I need more time’; ‘There's more caffeine in my coffee than in the coffee you get in most places.’;

To a greater degree or extent.

Example: ‘He walks more in the morning these days.’;

In negative constructions: any further, any longer; any more.

Used alone to form the comparative form of adjectives and adverbs.

Example: ‘You're more beautiful than I ever imagined.’;

Used in addition to an inflected comparative form.

Example: ‘I was more better at English than you.’;

A greater number of people or things.

An extra amount or extent.

(obsolete) A carrot; a parsnip.

(dialectal) A root; stock.

A plant.

(transitive) To root up.

A hill.

A root.

A greater quantity, amount, or number; that which exceeds or surpasses in any way what it is compared with.

Example: ‘And the children of Israel did so, and gathered, some more, some less.’;

That which is in addition; something other and further; an additional or greater amount.

Example: ‘They that would have more and more can never have enough.’; ‘O! That pang where more than madness lies.’;

Greater; superior; increased;

Example: ‘He gat more money.’; ‘If we procure not to ourselves more woe.’; ‘Whilst sisters nine, which dwell on Parnasse height,Do make them music for their more delight.’; ‘The more part knew not wherefore they were come together.’; ‘Wrong not that wrong with a more contempt.’;

Greater in number; exceeding in numbers; - with the plural.

Example: ‘The people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we.’;

Additional; other; as, he wept because there were no more worlds to conquer.

Example: ‘With open arms received one poet more.’;

In a greater quantity; in or to a greater extent or degree.

Example: ‘Admiring moreThe riches of Heaven's pavement.’;

With an adjective or adverb (instead of the suffix -er) to form the comparative degree; as, more durable; more active; more sweetly.

Example: ‘Happy here, and more happy hereafter.’; ‘The duke of MilanAnd his more braver daughter.’;

In addition; further; besides; again.

Example: ‘Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once more,Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere,I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude.’; ‘Those oracles which set the world in flames,Nor ceased to burn till kingdoms were no more.’;

To make more; to increase.

English statesman who opposed Henry VIII's divorce from Catherine of Aragon and was imprisoned and beheaded; recalled for his concept of Utopia, the ideal state

(comparative of `much' used with mass nouns) a quantifier meaning greater in size or amount or extent or degree;

Example: ‘more land’; ‘more support’; ‘more rain fell’; ‘more than a gallon’;

(comparative of `many' used with count nouns) quantifier meaning greater in number;

Example: ‘a hall with more seats’; ‘we have no more bananas’; ‘more than one’;

existing or coming by way of addition;

Example: ‘an additional problem’; ‘further information’; ‘there will be further delays’; ‘took more time’;

used to form the comparative of some adjectives and adverbs;

Example: ‘more interesting’; ‘more beautiful’; ‘more quickly’;

comparative of much; to a greater degree or extent;

Example: ‘he works more now’; ‘they eat more than they should’;