MOOR

Pronunție (USA): (GB):

Traducere în limba română

moor¹ substantiv

1. ţinut întins acoperit adesea cu vegetaţie arbustivă măruntă (din genul Erica ş.a.).

2. teren mlăştinos; mlaştină.

3. teren de vânătoare.

moor² (mar.) verb A. tranzitiv

a afurca; a amara; a lega (vasul) de mal.

moor² (mar.) verb B. intranzitiv

1. afurca sau a amara.

2. a arunca ancora.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

I like Moor House, and I will live at Moor House; I like Diana and Mary, and I will attach myself for life to Diana and Mary.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

Well, now, Watson, how many cows did you see on the moor?

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A short walk across the moor took us to the hollow in which the body had been found.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Some calls it Marsh End, and some calls it Moor House.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

It at least bears out the theory that it is on the side of the Lower Gill Moor that we must hope for results.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I had almost made up my mind to sleep on the moor, when I saw the light of your lantern.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They had lived very little at home for a long while, and were only come now to stay a few weeks on account of their father's death; but they did so like Marsh End and Morton, and all these moors and hills about.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

That evening James bicycled over—I am telling you what he has himself confessed to me—and he told Arthur, whom he met in the wood, that his mother longed to see him, that she was awaiting him on the moor, and that if he would come back into the wood at midnight he would find a man with a horse, who would take him to her.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Tavistock itself lies two miles to the west, while across the moor, also about two miles distant, is the larger training establishment of Mapleton, which belongs to Lord Backwater, and is managed by Silas Brown.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The craving to know what had become of him followed me everywhere; when I was at Morton, I re-entered my cottage every evening to think of that; and now at Moor House, I sought my bedroom each night to brood over it.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

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