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Definition: Moose |
MooseNoun1. Large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male; called elk in Europe and moose in North America. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "moose" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1827. (references) |
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Slang | Adjective. Source: Unknown. Definition: That you have larger genitalia and like to be the one penetrating other men. Context: Used when speaking directly to a "moose" or another gay male to describe a homosexual man that prefers the male role in homosexual relations . Social Source: Homosexual Males ages 30 and up. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) |
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Moose 
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Artiodactyla Family: Cervidae Genus: Alces Species: alces Binomial name Alces alces The animal Alces alces, called the Elk in Europe or the Moose in North America, is the largest of all the deer tribe, distinguished from other members of the Cervidae by the form of the antlers of the males. These arise as cylindrical beams projecting on each side at right angles to the middle line of the skull, which after a short distance divide in a fork-like manner. The lower prong of this fork may be either simple, or divided into two or three tines, with some flattening.
In the East Siberian race of the Elk (Alces alces bedfordiae) the posterior division of the main fork divides into three tines, with no distinct flattening. In the Common Elk (Alces alces alces), on the other hand, this branch usually expands into a broad palmation, with one large tine at the base, and a number of smaller snags on the free border.
There is, however, a Scandinavian phase of the Common Elk in which the antlers are simpler, and recall those of the East Siberian race.
The palmation appears to be more marked in the North American race, the Moose (Alces alces americanus) than in the typical Scandinavian elk. The largest of all is the Alaskan race (Alces alces gigas), which stands 8 ft. in height, with a span of 6 ft. across the antlers
The great length of the legs gives a decidedly ungainly appearance to the elks. The muzzle is long and fleshy, with only a very small triangular naked patch below the nostrils; and the males have a peculiar sac, known as the bell, hanging from the neck. From the shortness of their necks, elks are unable to graze, and their chief food consists of young shoots and leaves of willow and birch, and waterplants (such as Arnicus brucitus). These ruminants are often found feeding in wetlands in temperate climes.
Male moose weigh over 550kg (1200 lbs) on average, and females are often more than 400kg. Calves weigh around 15kg at birth but quickly increase in size. Height at the shoulders generally ranges between 6.5-7.5 feet (over 2 metres). Only the males have antlers, averaging 160cm across and 20kg in weight with a broad, flattened palmate shape fringed in up to 30 tines.
An Alaskan moose discovered in 1897 holds the record for being the largest known modern deer; it was a male standing 2.34 metres and weighing 816kg. Its antler spread was 199cm.
Female Moose
larger versionAlthough generally timid, the males become very bold during the breeding season, when the females utter a loud call, often mistaken for lowing cattle; and at such times they fight both with their antlers and their hoofs. Fierce clashing of antlers between males is also not uncommon. In Norse mythology, lightning was said to emanate from the antlers of the Elk during combat.
The usual pace is a shambling trot, but when pressed elks can break into a gallop. The female gives birth to one or two young at a time, which are not spotted.
The female Moose is reported to kill more people in Canada than any other animal (far exceeding the North American Grizzly Bear). These large animals can be extremely protective of their young, and caution should be exercised when approaching a cow moose.
In North America, during the winter one male and several females may form a "moose-yard" in the forest, which they keep open by trampling the snow.
The word "moose" is thought to be from "mus" or "moos" of the Algonquian (North American Indian) family of languages.
In Western Culture, the Moose is often depicted as a laconic, good natured and not terribly bright creature. Bullwinkle of the Rocky & Bullwinkle animated television series is the most famous example.
In North America the name "Elk" is transferred to the Wapiti deer.
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MOOSE, originally an acronym for Man Out Of Space Easiest and later changed to the more professional-sounding Manned Orbital Operations Safety Equipment, was a proposed emergency "bail-out" system capable of bringing a single astronaut safely down from Earth orbit to the planet's surface.The design was proposed by General Electric in the early 1960s. The system was quite compact, weighing 200 pounds (90 kilograms) and fitting inside a suitcase-sized container. It consisted of a small twin-nozzle rocket motor sufficient to deorbit the astronaut, a mylar bag 1.8 meters long with a flexible quarter-inch-thick ablative heat shield on the back, two pressurized canisters to fill it with polyurethane foam, and a parachute, radio equipment and a survival kit. The astronaut would leave his vehicle in a space suit, climb inside the plastic bag, and then fill it with foam. The bag had the shape of a blunt cone, with the astronaut embedded in its base facing outward. The rocket pack would protrude from the bag and be used to slow the astronaut's orbital momentum enough so that he would reenter Earth's atmosphere, and the foam-filled bag would act as insulation during the subsequent aerobraking. Finally, once the astronaut had descended to 30,000 feet (9000 meters) where the air was sufficiently dense, the parachute would automatically deploy and slow the astronaut's fall to 25 feet (7.6 meters) per second. The foam heat shield would serve a final role as cushioning when the astronaut touches down, and as a flotation device should he land on water. The radio beacon would guide rescuers.
General Electric performed preliminary testing on some of the components of the MOOSE system, including flying samples of heat shield material on a Mercury mission, inflating a foam-filled bag with a human subject embedded inside, and test-dropping dummies in MOOSE foam shields short distances. U.S. Air Force Capt. Joe Kittinger's historic freefall from a balloon at 103,000 feet (31,395 meters) in August 1960 also helped demonstrate the feasability of such extreme skydiving. However, the MOOSE system was nonetheless always intended as an extreme emergency measure when no other option for returning an astronaut to Earth existed; falling from orbit protected by nothing more than a spacesuit and a bag of foam was unlikely to ever become a particularly safe maneuver.
Neither NASA nor the U.S. Air Force expressed an interest in the MOOSE system, and so by the end of the 1960s the program was quietly shelved.
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Synonym: MooseSynonym: elk (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Animal | Fox, Reynard, vixen, stag, deer, hart, buck, doe, roe; caribou, coyote, elk, moose, musk ox, sambar. |
Government | Party; Democratic Party, Republican Party, Socialist Party, Communist Party; Federalist Party, Bull Moose Party, Abolitionist Party; Christian Democratic Party, Social Democratic Party; National Socialist Worker's Party, Nazi Party; Liberal Party, Labor Party, Conservative Party. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Moose |
| English words defined with "moose": Alces, Alces alces ♦ Bull Moose Party ♦ Cervidae ♦ elk, European elk ♦ family Cervidae ♦ genus Alces ♦ Moose deer, Moose yard ♦ Progressive Party ♦ Whisky Jack. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "moose": moose call ♦ This time, for sure!, true deer ♦ whalesong. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Moose" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Manx (moose). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Boris, is Moose you said you killed in previous episode (The Bullwinkle Show; writing credit: Allan Burns; Chris Hayward) Dumb like a moose, Dib. Dumb like a moose (Invader ZIM; writing credit: Carel Donck) And there's, you know, they preserve the moose. And that's, that's my childhood up there on stage (This Is Spinal Tap; writing credit: Christopher Guest; Michael McKean) Come bargin' in here like a friggin' moose (Can't Hardly Wait; writing credit: Deborah Kaplan; Harry Elfont) Well, Ecklund & Swedlin's, that's closer ta Moose Lake, so I made that assumption (Fargo; writing credit: Joel Coen; Ethan Coen) | |
Tongue Twisters | Moose noshing much mush. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Christmas at Moose Factory (1971) Magoo's Moose Hunt (1957) Moose on the Loose (1952) Morris the Midget Moose (1950) Moose Hunters (1937) | |
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Theater & Movies | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Moose - Alces alces gigas - the largest of the deer family. Credit: NOAA's Ark (Animals). |  | Winter feeding of moose in the Pindale Field Office Area. Credit: Unknown. |
 | A moose on a snowy hillside in Wyoming. Credit: Unknown. |  | Twin Lakes, Kenai National Moose Range. Credit: Alaska Historical Image Library. |
 | Kanuti Lake and Moose. Credit: Alaska Image Library. |  | Sketches showing detail of arch with sculpted animal heads on voussoirs, frieze with squirrel and pine cones, and man restraining moose. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Moose McCormick. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Moose Grimshaw. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Cartoon showing Theodore Roosevelt looking at bull moose propped up with boards] / McKee Barclay. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Race to the White House with Wilson on a donkey and Taft on an elephant being bitten by T. Roosevelt on a bull moose. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Moose" by Shawn Haworth Commentary: "Moose feeding." |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Hunters may be infected through skin wounds or by accidentally ingesting the bacteria after cleaning deer, elk, moose, or wild pigs that they have killed. (references) | |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
John Walsh | Well, that was the big question in the sniper case. And Chief Moose was absolutely furious that something leaked out when he was trying to close in on the sniper. There is real a fine line. |
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| "Moose" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 56.45% of the time. "Moose" is used about 62 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 56.45% | 35 | 58,339 |
| Noun (proper) | 33.87% | 21 | 76,261 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 8.06% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 1.61% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 62 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "moose" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Moose | Last name | 1,000 | 8,903 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
1. Moose, WY |
Expressions using "moose": Bull Moose ♦ Bull Moose Party ♦ moose bird ♦ moose call ♦ Moose Creek ♦ moose deer ♦ Moose Lake ♦ Moose Pass ♦ moose yard. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "moose": moose-hunting, moose-like. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
moose | 2,177 | bull moose | 55 |
moose picture | 330 | maine moose hunt | 53 |
moose hunting | 249 | moose lake | 50 |
moose jaw | 192 | moose pic | 47 |
stuffed moose | 144 | international moose | 46 |
manitoba moose | 132 | cartoon moose | 45 |
moose lodge | 128 | moose jaw real estate | 39 |
moose jaw times herald | 122 | moose atv | 39 |
lottery maine moose | 100 | maine moose hunting | 39 |
charles moose | 83 | knuckles moose | 38 |
moose racing | 83 | maine moose | 37 |
loyal moose order | 83 | moose decor | 36 |
chief moose | 72 | milk moose | 36 |
moose photo | 70 | trophy moose hunt | 35 |
knuckle moose | 66 | clipart moose | 34 |
maine moose permit | 65 | bull moose music | 34 |
moose jaw canada | 64 | draw moose | 33 |
moose lake mn | 64 | chocolate moose | 32 |
animated moose | 64 | jaw moose tunnel | 32 |
moose jaw saskatchewan | 59 | mangy moose | 32 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "moose"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | eland (eland, elk). (various references) | |
Albanian | dre brilopatë. (various references) | |
Arabic | الموظ غزال أمريكي ضخم. (various references) | |
Blackfoot | sikihtsisoo. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | европейски лос, американски лос. (various references) | |
Chinese | 麋 (river bank). (various references) | |
Czech | los severoamerický. (various references) | |
Danish | elg (elk). (various references) | |
Dutch | eland (elk). (various references) | |
Esperanto | alko (elk). (various references) | |
Faeroese | elgur (elk). (various references) | |
Farsi | گوزن شمالی(ج.ش.) (Reindeer). (various references) | |
Finnish | hirvi (deer, elk, hart, stag). (various references) | |
French | élan (momentum). (various references) | |
German | Elch (elk, mooseUS). (various references) | |
Greek | αμερικάνικη έλαφοσ. (various references) | |
Hebrew | צבי אמריקאי. (various references) | |
Hungarian | jávorszarvas (elk). (various references) | |
Irish | fia mór (elk), eilc (elk). (various references) | |
Italian | alce (elk). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ミンク鯨 (minced beef, mince-meat, mince-pie, minke whale, mint, mint julep, mood, mood conditioning, moody, Moore, mousse, mouton, mucho, Muse, peppermint, piked whale). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ムース (mousse). (various references) | |
Korean | 큰사슴. (various references) | |
Manx | moose, feeaih mooar (elk). (various references) | |
Mohawk | ska'nyonhsa. (various references) | |
Papago | cheshoni. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oosemay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | alce (elk, reindeer). (various references) | |
Romanian | elan (Ardor, ardour, briskness, elan, elk, enthusiasm, go, impetus, soar, soaring, spring, stir, upsurge). (various references) | |
Russian | американский лось. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | los (elk). (various references) | |
Spanish | alce (elk). (various references) | |
Swedish | älg (elk). (various references) | |
Turkish | kanada geyiği (elk), amerika geyiği. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | американський лось. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | achar, achia, achias, achim, achis, achisamech, alces, Alces alces, heliachim, RM:elan. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "moose": schmoose, vamoose. (additional references) | |
Words containing "moose": schmoosed, schmooses, vamoosed, vamooses. (additional references) | |
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"Moose" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: foose, joose, Makossa, Masoke, Mboso, meese, Meise, miese, mios, moes, Moisan, Moiseev, mojos, molsen, Momote, monse, moode, moorse, Moorsee, Moosa, moosai, mooseg, mooses, mooset, moosh, mooshe, moosie, moosy, mooz, Mosa, mose, mosee, moset, mosi, Mosle, Mosor, mosow, mosre, mossa, mosse, mouce, moues, mouske, mousme, mowse, moyse, moze, mozel, mozos, Mozote, mucose, muise, musea, musee, Musoke, musse, omoe, omote, oose, osoe, smooze, woose. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "moose" (pronounced muw"s) |
| 3 | m uw" s | mousse. |
| 2 | -uw" s | abstruse, abuse, caboose, coos, deduce, Deuce, diffuse, disabuse, disuse, Duce, excuse, goose, induce, introduce, juice, loose, Luce, misuse, noose, obtuse, overproduce, produce, profuse, recluse, reduce, reintroduce, reproduce, reuse, seduce, sluice, Spruce, truce, use. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-m-o-o-s" | |
-1 letter: moos, some. | |
-2 letters: ems, moo, mos, oes, oms, ose, som. | |
-3 letters: em, es, me, mo, oe, om, os, so. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-m-o-o-s" | |
+1 letter: comose, mojoes, morose, osmole, osmose, romeos. | |
+2 letters: boomers, bosomed, coeloms, comedos, compose, coombes, embosom, homosex, mongoes, mooches, mooleys, moonset, mooters, mopokes, mottoes, myosote, noisome, oosperm, osmoles, osmosed, osmoses, osteoma, oxysome, pomelos, roomers, roomies, shmooze, somehow, someone, twosome, vamoose, woesome. | |
+3 letters: acrosome, autosome, bedrooms, beglooms, besmooth, bloomers, boomiest, boomlets, boredoms, boresome, coelomes, comatose, commodes, commoves, composed, composer, composes, compotes, consomme, cosmoses, dogedoms, dolesome, dominoes, doomster, dormouse, embosoms, emotions, empoison, endosmos, endosome, enormous, exosmose, foremost, foursome, groomers, homeboys, hommoses, hormones, ionomers, ipomoeas, legrooms, liposome, lonesome, longsome, lothsome, lovesome, lysosome, maestoso, mesosome, mesotron, metopons, moidores, momentos, mongoose, monocles, monodies, monomers, monosome, monteros, moochers, moodiest, mooneyes, mooniest, moonless, moonlets, moonrise, moonseed, moonsets, moorages, moorhens, mooriest, morellos, morosely, motorise, mungoose, myoscope, myosotes, myotomes, newsroom, oenomels, oinomels, oogamies, oosperms, osteomas, ostomies, outcomes, outmodes, outmoves, outsmoke, oxysomes, polysome, popedoms, promotes, reblooms, regrooms, resmooth, restroom, ribosome, roomiest, saleroom, schmoose, schmooze, semihobo, shmoozed, shmoozes, simoleon, smokepot, smooched, smooches, smoothed, smoothen, smoother, smoothes, smoothie, sodomies, sodomite, sodomize, sombrero, somebody, someones, stomodea, sycomore, tearooms, toilsome, tomatoes, tremolos, twosomes, vamoosed, vamooses, venomous, woodsmen, woomeras, zoosperm. | |
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