MOORE

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• MOORE (noun)
  The noun MOORE has 6 senses:

1. United States composer of works noted for their use of the American vernacular (1893-1969)

2. English actor and comedian who appeared on television and in films (born in 1935)

3. English philosopher (1873-1958)

4. Irish poet who wrote nostalgic and patriotic verse (1779-1852)

5. United States poet noted for irony and wit (1887-1872)

6. British sculptor whose works are monumental organic forms (1898-1986)

  Familiarity information: MOORE used as a noun is common.

• MOORE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States composer of works noted for their use of the American vernacular (1893-1969)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Douglas Moore; Moore

Instance hypernyms:

composer (someone who composes music as a profession)

Sense 2

Meaning:

English actor and comedian who appeared on television and in films (born in 1935)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Dudley Moore; Dudley Stuart John Moore; Moore

Instance hypernyms:

actor; histrion; player; role player; thespian (a theatrical performer)

comedian; comic (a professional performer who tells jokes and performs comical acts)

Sense 3

Meaning:

English philosopher (1873-1958)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

G. E. Moore; George Edward Moore; Moore

Instance hypernyms:

philosopher (a specialist in philosophy)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Irish poet who wrote nostalgic and patriotic verse (1779-1852)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Moore; Thomas Moore

Instance hypernyms:

poet (a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry))

Sense 5

Meaning:

United States poet noted for irony and wit (1887-1872)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Marianne Craig Moore; Marianne Moore; Moore

Instance hypernyms:

poet (a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry))

Sense 6

Meaning:

British sculptor whose works are monumental organic forms (1898-1986)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Henry Moore; Henry Spencer Moore; Moore

Instance hypernyms:

carver; sculptor; sculpturer; statue maker (an artist who creates sculptures)

 Context examples 

"These rock movements are happening every second of every day, but are too small for us to see or feel," Moore said.

(Song of the red rock arches, National Science Foundation)

"Genes we associate with a particular disease or trait often have many other functions," says Francisco (Paco) Moore, a program director in NSF's Division of Environmental Biology.

(New insights into genetic basis of bird migration, National Science Foundation)

Moore notes that the bright, sediment-like material appears to be filling in old craters (for example, the bright circular feature to the lower left of center).

(New Horizons Finds Second Mountain Range in Pluto’s ‘Heart’, NASA)

In collaboration with the researchers from Liverpool John Moore University, the UGR researchers used statistical techniques to analyse the full kinematics curves, based on tracing point trajectories.

(Researchers identify the maximum weight that children should carry in their school backpacks, University of Granada)

This study shows that, despite a common perception that ecological systems are resilient, they can be so slow to rebound that they're unlikely to return to the same undisturbed state, says Francisco Moore, a program director in NSF's Division of Environmental Biology.

(Plant biodiversity struggles to return in wake of agricultural abandonment, National Science Foundation)

In March of that year Dr. Moore Agar, of Harley Street, whose dramatic introduction to Holmes I may some day recount, gave positive injunctions that the famous private agent lay aside all his cases and surrender himself to complete rest if he wished to avert an absolute breakdown.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Geoscientist Jeff Moore of the University of Utah uses recordings of the vibrations to study the arches' structural stability.

(Song of the red rock arches, National Science Foundation)

Scientists from the University of Granada and Liverpool John Moores University (UK) have established that school children who use backpacks should avoid loads of more than 10% of their body weight—and those who use trolleys, 20% of their body weight.

(Researchers identify the maximum weight that children should carry in their school backpacks, University of Granada)

For example, Moore's team found that a helicopter flying close to an arch in Utah's Bryce Canyon caused the arch to vibrate with an amplitude one hundred times greater than normal.

(Song of the red rock arches, National Science Foundation)