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UK
/mˈɔːs/
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[ US /ˈmɔɹs/ ]
[ US /ˈmɔɹs/ ]
NOUN
- a telegraph code in which letters and numbers are represented by strings of dots and dashes (short and long signals)
- United States portrait painter who patented the telegraph and developed the Morse code (1791-1872)
How To Use Morse In A Sentence
- Then the pleasant little surprises of all kinds that we imagined; and the pleasant looks that greet us when we condescend to accept them; the patience that can translate our most unwarrantable "crossness", because there has been some trifling difficulty in obtaining the half of a star or the corner of a moon which it had pleased us to require, into "such a good sign of being really better"; and then our appetite (which the gods know is at that season singularly keen), how is it not tempted with unutterable dainties and friande morsels, all sorts of amateur cookery in our behalf, where Love himself has not disdained to turn the spit, and look into the stewpan! and all served up so gracefully on the small tray, covered with its delicate white damask cloth, arraying with more than mortal charms the moulds of crystal jelly and pure-looking blanc mange! Zoe: The History of Two Lives
- Some of it is maybe "agenbite of inwit," the Middle English phrase meaning remorse of conscience. Rectitude Chic
- Remorse and guilt are incomprehensible to the perpetratorsat this stage of the game because all significant players were for sale, andwere therefore immune to their own remorse. Is the Dem Congress Criminally Insane?
- She agrees but instantly feels remorse. The Sun
- The white flakes do not exhibit the true conchoidal fracture in such perfection elsewhere; nor break off in such delicious morsels, edged with delicate brown. Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses
- We have known a male mierkat so assiduous in feeding young that were quite unrelated to himself, taking to them every morsel of food given him, that we have been compelled to shut him up in a room alone when feeding him, to prevent his starving himself to death: the male mierkat thus exhibiting exactly those psychic qualities which are generally regarded as peculiarly feminine; the females, on the other hand, being far more pugnacious towards each other than are the males. Woman and Labour
- It is considered very polite to occasionally select a choice morsel for the person sitting beside you or to place it on his or her plate.
- Robert Hardy says he re-arranged his schedule to make sure he could appear in the final episode of Inspector Morse.
- Some waited 10 and 12 hours for a morsel of meat. Times, Sunday Times
- Like a diner spearing a morsel of food with the tine of a fork, researchers have used the tip of a microscopic needle to lift a single atom from a surface and then replace it.