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UNMOOR

Definition: UNMOOR

UNMOOR

Intransitive verb

1. To weigh anchor.

Transitive verb

1. To loose from anchorage. See Moor, v. t.

2. To cause to ride with one anchor less than before, after having been moored by two or more anchors.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "UNMOOR" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1840. (references)


Modern Translation: UNMOOR

Language Translations for "UNMOOR"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Arabic 

  

‏فك مراسي المركب. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

оставам само на една котва, отвързвам от пристан. (various references)

   

Czech

  

zdvihnout (heave, hoist, improve, raise, take up, upheave, upraise). (various references)

   

German

  

losmachen (cast off, disengage, free, groove, let off, loose, release, slip, take off, unfasten, unfix, unfurl, unhitch, unloose, unstick, untie). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

hajó horgonyát felszedi. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oorunmay

   

Portuguese

  

levantar ferros, levantar a âncora (heave up anchor, hoist anchor, take up the anchor, weigh anchor), desamarrar (loose, loosen, unbind, uncord, undo, unfasten, unlace, untie). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

отдать швартовы. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

odvezati brod, dignuti sidro. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

vira etmek (tally, weigh anchor), lenger çekmek, fora etmek (unbend, unfurl, unship). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: UNMOOR

Derivations

Words beginning with "UNMOOR": unmoored, unmooring, unmoors. (additional references)


Misspellings

"UNMOOR" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bunyoro, Numenor, Unamo, unmer, Unmlo, unmore, unmorn, unmur. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: UNMOOR

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "m-n-o-o-r-u"

-1 letter: moron, mourn.

-2 letters: mono, moon, moor, morn, muon, norm, room.

-3 letters: mon, moo, mor, mun, nom, noo, nor, our, rom, rum, run, urn.

-4 letters: mo, mu, no, nu, om, on, or, um, un.

 Words containing the letters "m-n-o-o-r-u"
 

+1 letter: gunroom, monuron, sunroom, unmoors.

 

+2 letters: enormous, gunrooms, monurons, pronotum, sunrooms, unmoored.

 

+3 letters: doronicum, lunchroom, monocular, monovular, monstrous, roundworm, unmooring.

 

+4 letters: anadromous, bourbonism, compounder, consortium, doronicums, enormously, foraminous, harmonious, honorarium, lunchrooms, monestrous, monoculars, moonstruck, morulation, motoneuron, neurohumor, nonuniform, numerology, omnivorous, paronymous, protohuman, roundworms, stormbound, uncommoner, unhumorous.

 

+5 letters: acrimonious, amorousness, bourbonisms, carpogonium, ceremonious, compounders, consortiums, consummator, coterminous, countermemo, countermove, formulation, homonuclear, honorariums, hormogonium, monocularly, monoculture, mononuclear, monstrously, morulations, motoneurons, mucoprotein, mushrooming, neurohumors, noncomputer, nonconsumer, noncustomer, omnifarious, opportunism, ostensorium, outdoorsman, outdoorsmen, outhomering, outhumoring, overconsume, positronium, protohumans, rumormonger, somniferous, sporogonium, unglamorous, unmonitored.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: UNMOOR


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

55 4E 4D 4F 4F 52

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

..-    -.    --    ---    ---    .-.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010101 01001110 01001101 01001111 01001111 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#85 &#78 &#77 &#79 &#79 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0055 004E 004D 004F 004F 0052

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

554847494952

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Derivations
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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