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Princeton's WordNet

  1. elk, European elk, moose, Alces alcesnoun

    large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male; called `elk' in Europe and `moose' in North America

GCIDE

  1. moosenoun

    A member of the fraternal organization named Loyal Order of Moose.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Moosenoun

    The large American deer; the biggest of the species of deer.

Wikipedia

  1. MOOSE

    MOOSE, originally an acronym for Man Out Of Space Easiest but 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 lb (91 kg) and fitting inside a suitcase-sized container. It consisted of a small twin-nozzle rocket motor sufficient to deorbit the astronaut, a PET film bag 6 ft (1.8 m) long with a flexible 0.25 in (6.4 mm) ablative heat shield on the back, two pressurized canisters to fill it with polyurethane foam, a parachute, radio equipment and a survival kit.The astronaut would leave the 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 the apex of the cone. The rocket pack would protrude from the bag and be used to slow the astronaut's orbital speed 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 ft (9.1 km) where the air was sufficiently dense, the parachute would automatically deploy and slow the astronaut's fall to 17 mph (7.6 m/s). The foam heat shield would serve a final role as cushioning when the astronaut touched down and as a flotation device should they 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 and a human subject in MOOSE foam shields short distances. U.S. Air Force Capt. Joe Kittinger's historic freefall from a balloon at 103,000 ft (31,000 m) in August 1960 also helped demonstrate the feasibility of such extreme parachuting. 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—or enticing—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 had been quietly shelved.

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  1. moose

    A moose is a large, herbivorous mammal of the deer family, typically found in North America and northern parts of Europe and Asia. It is characterized by its strong, heavy build, humped shoulders, long legs, and a swinging flap of skin under its throat, known as a "dewlap" or "bell". Males are also notable for their large, broadly palmate (flat and spread out) antlers.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Moosenoun

    a large cervine mammal (Alces machlis, or A. Americanus), native of the Northern United States and Canada. The adult male is about as large as a horse, and has very large, palmate antlers. It closely resembles the European elk, and by many zoologists is considered the same species. See Elk

  2. Etymology: [A native name; Knisteneaux mouswah; Algonquin monse. Mackenzie.]

Wikidata

  1. Moose

    The moose or Eurasian elk is the largest extant species in the deer family. Moose are distinguished by the palmate antlers of the males; other members of the family have antlers with a dendritic configuration. Moose typically inhabit boreal and mixed deciduous forests of the Northern Hemisphere in temperate to subarctic climates. Moose used to have a much wider range but hunting and other human activities greatly reduced it over the years. Moose have been reintroduced to some of their former habitats. Currently, most moose are found in Canada, Alaska, Scandinavia and Russia. Their diet consists of both terrestrial and aquatic vegetation. The most common moose predators are wolves, bears, and humans. Unlike most other deer species, moose are solitary animals and do not form herds. Although generally slow-moving and sedentary, moose can become aggressive and move surprisingly quickly if angered or startled. Their mating season in the autumn can lead to spectacular fights between males competing for the right to mate with a particular female.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Moose

    mōōs, n. the largest deer of America, resembling the European elk. [Algonkin musu.]

Editors Contribution

  1. moose

    A type of deer.

    Moose are bred mainly in North America, northern Europe, and Asia.


    Submitted by MaryC on March 1, 2017  

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Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. MOOSE

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Moose is ranked #9399 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Moose surname appeared 3,459 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 1 would have the surname Moose.

    89.6% or 3,102 total occurrences were White.
    4.3% or 150 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
    2.4% or 86 total occurrences were Black.
    1.5% or 55 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    1% or 37 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    0.8% or 29 total occurrences were Asian.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of moose in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of moose in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of moose in a Sentence

  1. Sarah Hoy:

    We usually think about winter having a big impact on moose, but growing evidence suggests summer might be even more important.

  2. Woody Allen:

    Of all the wonders of nature, a tree in summer is perhaps the most remarkable; with the possible exception of a moose singing Embraceable You in spats.

  3. Vermont Fish:

    Moose densities greater than one per square mile support high numbers of winter ticks which negatively impact moose health and survival.

  4. Goran Amnegard:

    There is this myth about the cold weather here, the moose and the polar bears, we have had more or less Mediterranean summers.

  5. Gary Smith:

    It’s a giant preserve, and they have birds, moose, elk, bears, everything. And that’s a great way to guarantee you get to see everything, even though it’s not in the wild.

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