different between wharf vs moor

English

Etymology

From Middle English wharf, from Old English hwearf (“heap, embankment, wharf”); related to Old English hweorfan (“to turn”), Old Saxon hwerf (whence German Werft), Dutch werf, Old High German hwarb (“a turn”), hwerban (“to turn”), Old Norse hvarf (“circle”), and Ancient Greek ?????? (karpós, “wrist”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: wôrf, IPA^(key): /w??f/
• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: wôf, IPA^(key): /w??f/
• (without the wine–whine merger) enPR: hwôrf, IPA^(key): /hw??f/.

In New Zealand, even those who distinguish wine and whine are likely to pronounce as /w??f/.

• Rhymes: -??(?)f

Noun

wharf (plural wharves or wharfs)

1. A man-made landing place for ships on a shore or river bank.
   • 1834-1874, George Bancroft, History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent.

     Commerce pushes its wharves into the sea.

   • 1842, Alfred Tennyson, The Lady of Shalott

     Out upon the wharfs they came, / Knight and burgher, lord and dame.

2. The bank of a river, or the shore of the sea.

Synonyms

• (landing place): dock; quay

Hyponyms

• (landing place): jetty; pier; staithe, staith (Northern England)

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

wharf (third-person singular simple present wharfs, present participle wharfing, simple past and past participle wharfed)

1. (transitive) To secure by a wharf.
2. (transitive) To place on a wharf.

See also

• dock

Middle English

Alternative forms

• wherf, wharfe, warrf, wharghfe

Etymology

From Old English hwearf.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?arf/

Noun

wharf (plural wharves)

1. wharf

Derived terms

• wharfage

Descendants

• English: wharf
• Scots: wharf

References

• “wharf, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-12-12.

English

Pronunciation

• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /mo?/
• (General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /mo?/, [mö?(??)~m???(??)]
• (Received Pronunciation)
  • (with the pour–poor merger) IPA^(key): /m??/
  • (without the pour–poor merger) IPA^(key): /m??/
• (US)
  • (with the pour–poor merger) IPA^(key): /m??/
  • (without the pour–poor merger) IPA^(key): /m?(?)?/
• Rhymes: -??(?), -??(?)
• Homophone: Moore (all accents)
• Homophone: more (with the pour–poor merger)
• Homophone: maw (most non-rhotic accents with the pour–poor merger)
• Homophone: mooer (some accents)

Usage notes

More is not a homophone in some Northern UK accents, while mooer is.

Etymology 1

From Middle English mor, from Old English m?r, from Proto-Germanic *m?raz, from Proto-Indo-European *móri. Cognates include Welsh môr, Old Irish muir (from Proto-Celtic *mori); Scots muir, Dutch moer, Old Saxon m?r, Old Saxon m?r, German Moor and perhaps also Gothic ???????????????????? (marei). See mere.

Noun

moor (plural moors)

1. An extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath
   • (Can we find and add a quotation of Carew to this entry?)

     In her girlish age she kept sheep on the moor.

2. A game preserve consisting of moorland.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• bog
• marsh
• swamp

Etymology 2

From Middle English moren, from unattested Old English *m?rian, from Proto-West Germanic *mair?n (“to moor, fasten to”), related to *maida- (“post”), from Proto-Indo-European *m?yt-, *meyt-, from *m?y-, *mey- (“stake, pole”). Cognate with Dutch meren (“to moor”), marren (“to bind”).

Verb

moor (third-person singular simple present moors, present participle mooring, simple past and past participle moored)

1. (intransitive, nautical) To cast anchor or become fastened.
2. (transitive, nautical) 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

3. (transitive) To secure or fix firmly.

Derived terms

• mooring buoy
• mooring can
• mooring post
• mooring
• moor up
• unmoored

Translations

Further reading

• Kroonen, Guus (2013) , “mairja-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, ?ISBN

Anagrams

• Moro, Romo, room

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch moorden, from Middle Dutch morden.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m???r/

Verb

moor (present moor, present participle moordende, past participle gemoor)

1. (intransitive) to murder

Related terms

• moord

Dutch

Etymology

From Moor (“member of a North African people”, became synonymous with “Saracen”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mo?r/
• Hyphenation: moor
• Rhymes: -o?r

Noun

moor m (plural moren, diminutive moortje n)

1. Something black, notably a black horse
2. A whistling kettle, used to boil water in, as for tea or coffee

Synonyms

• (kettle): fluitketel

Derived terms

• moorkop

Anagrams

• room

Estonian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mo?r/

Noun

moor (genitive moori, partitive moori)

1. (pejorative) an elderly woman; a crone

Declension

Saterland Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian m?ra, from Proto-Germanic *maizô. More at more.

Adjective

moor

1. more

Adverb

moor

1. more