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A surname transferred from the given name, variant of Morris, from the given name Maurice.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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A town in Saskatchewan, Canada, named after inventor Samuel Morse.
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A rural municipality in southern Saskatchewan, which includes the town; in full, the Rural Municipality of Morse No. 165.
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name
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Stark County, Illinois.
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name
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Johnson County, Iowa.
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name
A number of places in the United States:
A village in Acadia Parish, Louisiana.
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name
A number of places in the United States:
Two townships in Minnesota.
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name
A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Hansford County, Texas.
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name
A number of places in the United States:
A town in Ashland County, Wisconsin.
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name
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in the town of Gordon, Ashland County, Wisconsin.
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noun
Clipping of Morse code.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, uncountable
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noun
A clasp or fastening used to fasten a cope in the front, usually decorative.
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noun
Synonym of walrus.
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Usage: obsolete
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Synonyms: walrus
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verb
To transmit by Morse code.
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Usage: transitive
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noun
a telegraph code in which letters and numbers are represented by strings of dots and dashes (short and long signals)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: Morse code, international Morse code
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Broader terms: code
noun
United States portrait painter who patented the telegraph and developed the Morse code (1791-1872)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: Samuel Morse, Samuel F. B. Morse, Samuel Finley Breese Morse
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Broader terms: inventor, discoverer, artificer, painter
History
From Middle French mors, from Latin morsus (“bite; clasp”), from mordere (“to bite”).
Uncertain, perhaps ultimately from Proto-Samic *moršë. Compare Russian морж (morž, “walrus”), Sami morša, Finnish mursu (all attested later), and possibly the second element of translingual Rosmarus.
Across languages
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