Categories

This is a brief description of each of the main categories within the directory. Please take the time to browse through our categories to find the most relevant section for your site in order to eliminate the possibilty of your site not getting listed. If you cannot find a relevant category please use the "Suggest a category" link at the top of the page.

If you submit your site to a main category and it obviously belongs in a sub category then it will be deleted.

Adult

Not one of the main categories but a sub category of the Shopping category, we often find most spam attempts and disregard of our Terms of Service and Submission Guidelines in this section. One of the driving factors behind the Moo Directoy is the quality of ALL the sites we approve for listing. We will ban any sites that do not meet our requirements or attempt to get listed in inappropiate areas.

This section is for adult related products and services only and is the ONLY area such websites should make a submission to. You must be over the legal age to view this section relative to your own countrys laws.

1. One who has attained maturity or legal age.
2. Biology. A fully grown, mature organism.

1. Fully developed and mature.
2. Relating to, intended for, or befitting adults: adult education.
3. Containing or dealing in explicitly sexual material; pornographic: adult movies; adult bookstores.

"Adult." The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004.

Arts

The Art category is about arts and artists. If your site is devoted to the selling of products then please list it in the relevant Shopping category.

Art

1. Human effort to imitate, supplement, alter, or counteract the work of nature.
2. 1. The conscious production or arrangement of sounds, colors, forms, movements, or other elements in a manner that affects the sense of beauty, specifically the production of the beautiful in a graphic or plastic medium.
   2. The study of these activities.
   3. The product of these activities; human works of beauty considered as a group.
3. High quality of conception or execution, as found in works of beauty; aesthetic value.
4. A field or category of art, such as music, ballet, or literature.
5. A nonscientific branch of learning; one of the liberal arts.
6. 1. A system of principles and methods employed in the performance of a set of activities: the art of building.
   2. A trade or craft that applies such a system of principles and methods: the art of the lexicographer.
7. 1. Skill that is attained by study, practice, or observation: the art of the baker; the blacksmith's art.
   2. Skill arising from the exercise of intuitive faculties: “Self-criticism is an art not many are qualified to practice” (Joyce Carol Oates).
8. 1. Artful devices, stratagems, and tricks.
   2. Artful contrivance; cunning.
9. Printing. Illustrative material.

"Art." The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004.

Business

This section is for the inclusion of the official websites about corporations that manufacture, distribute, market and sell goods and services both in the B2B and B2C realms.

Sites to be included in this section are intended to be the main information and not shopping portal sites for the business. If the site is for shopping purposes then please ensure it is lited in the relevant Shopping category.

1. 1. The occupation, work, or trade in which a person is engaged: the wholesale food business.
   2. A specific occupation or pursuit: the best designer in the business.
2. Commercial, industrial, or professional dealings: new systems now being used in business.
3. A commercial enterprise or establishment: bought his uncle's business.
4. Volume or amount of commercial trade: Business had fallen off.
5. Commercial dealings; patronage: took her business to a trustworthy salesperson.
6. 1. One's rightful or proper concern or interest: “The business of America is business” (Calvin Coolidge).
   2. Something involving one personally: It's none of my business.
7. Serious work or endeavor: got right down to business.
8. An affair or matter: “We will proceed no further in this business” (Shakespeare).
9. An incidental action performed by an actor on the stage to fill a pause between lines or to provide interesting detail.
10. Informal. Verbal abuse; scolding: gave me the business for being late.
11. Obsolete. The condition of being busy.

"Business." The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004.

Computers

The computer section covers all aspects of computing. If you do not see a relevant category for your site then please use the "Suggest a Category" link at the top of the page.

1. A device that computes, especially a programmable electronic machine that performs high-speed mathematical or logical operations or that assembles, stores, correlates, or otherwise processes information.
2. One who computes.

"Computer." The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004.

Free Stuff

This is a brand new category suggested by one of our editors due to so many "free stuff sites" requesting placement in the wrong area. If your site offers free stuff then please feel free to request a listing in this section.

Currently we need user input on new sub categorys for this section so use the "Suggest a Category" link at the top of your page and also send us details about your site and we will give you a free listing if we decide to use it as a relevant new category for this section.

Games

This section is concerned with gaming sites not sites selling games. All types of games are included and if you do not see a category suitable for your submission then please use the "Suggest a Category" link at the top of the page.

1. An activity providing entertainment or amusement; a pastime: party games; word games.
2. 1. A competitive activity or sport in which players contend with each other according to a set of rules: the game of basketball; the game of gin rummy.
   2. A single instance of such an activity: We lost the first game.
   3. An organized athletic program or contest: track-and-field games; took part in the winter games.
   4. A period of competition or challenge: It was too late in the game to change the schedule of the project.
3. 1. The total number of points required to win a game: One hundred points is game in bridge.
   2. The score accumulated at any given time in a game: The game is now 14 to 12.
4. The equipment needed for playing certain games: packed the children's games in the car.
5. A particular style or manner of playing a game: improved my tennis game with practice.
6. Informal.
   1. An active interest or pursuit, especially one involving competitive engagement or adherence to rules: “the way the system operates, the access game, the turf game, the image game” (Hedrick Smith).
   2. A business or occupation; a line: the insurance game.
   3. An illegal activity; a racket.
7. Informal.
   1. Evasive, trifling, or manipulative behavior: wanted a straight answer, not more of their tiresome games.
   2. A calculated strategy or approach; a scheme: I saw through their game from the very beginning.
8. Mathematics. A model of a competitive situation that identifies interested parties and stipulates rules governing all aspects of the competition, used in game theory to determine the optimal course of action for an interested party.
9. 1. Wild animals, birds, or fish hunted for food or sport.
   2. The flesh of these animals, eaten as food.
10. 1. An object of attack, ridicule, or pursuit: The press considered the candidate's indiscretions to be game.
    2. Mockery; sport: The older children teased and made game of the newcomer.

"Game." The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004.

Health

This section is concerned with informative sites relating to health issues. If your site sells health products then please list it in the relevant Shopping category.

1. The overall condition of an organism at a given time.
2. Soundness, especially of body or mind; freedom from disease or abnormality.
3. A condition of optimal well-being: concerned about the ecological health of the area.
4. A wish for someone's good health, often expressed as a toast.

"Health." The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004.

Home and Garden

This section is for information sites concerned with home improvment, consumer information, gardening, parenting sites, moving home, pets, real estate etc.

There is a dedicated Home Shopping section so please list sites devoted to home shopping services here if relevant.

Internet

This section is for internet information and services. Please note, shopping websites should be listed in the Shopping category.

"Internet" A worldwide system of interconnected computer networks. The origins of the Internet can be traced to the creation of ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network) as a network of computers under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Defense in 1969. Today, the Internet connects millions of computers around the world in a nonhierarchical manner unprecedented in the history of communications. The Internet is a product of the convergence of media, computers, and telecommunications. It is not merely a technological development but the product of social and political processes, involving both the academic world and the government (the Department of Defense). From its origins in a nonindustrial, noncorporate environment and in a purely scientific culture, it has quickly diffused into the world of commerce.

The Internet is a combination of several media technologies and an electronic version of newspapers, magazines, books, catalogs, bulletin boards, and much more. This versatility gives the Internet its power.

"Internet." McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology. The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 2005.

Kids and Teens

This section is for the under 18's and is aimed at, not about, kids. Because of this, we will ban any site trying to add a listing that does not conform to under 18 legislation or includes any adult material, profanity, obscenities, and/or sexually explicit content.

Do not list any selling sites here, only informative sites intended for a young audience.

News

Please ensure you submit to the relevant sub category. Only the major multi-nationals will be listed in the parent category. If you submit to the wrong section you may be banned from the directory.

1. 1. Information about recent events or happenings, especially as reported by newspapers, periodicals, radio, or television.
   2. A presentation of such information, as in a newspaper or on a newscast.
2. New information of any kind: The requirement was news to him.
3. Newsworthy material: “a public figure on a scale unimaginable in America; whatever he did was news” (James Atlas).

"News." The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004.

Recreation

The recreation category is for websites about hobbies, activities and pastimes. The sites submitted here should be information based and not for the selling of equipment etc.

An activity undertaken for the pleasure or satisfaction which it gives to the individual. Some would restrict the term to activity away from the home. Geographical studies of recreation include demands for, and movement to, recreational facilities, and assessments of the impact of recreation on the landscape. See tourism. Recreation carrying capacity is the amount of recreation which a site can take without any deterioration of its qualities.

"Recreation." A Dictionary of Geography. Oxford University Press, 1992, 1997, 2004.

Reference

This section is for websites relating to information. Study, teaching, storage etc.

1. An act of referring: filed away the article for future reference.
2. 1. Significance in a specified context: Her speeches have special reference to environmental policy.
   2. Meaning or denotation.
3. The state of being related or referred: with reference to; in reference to.
4. A mention of an occurrence or situation: made frequent references to her promotion.
5. 1. A note in a publication referring the reader to another passage or source.
   2. The passage or source so referred to.
   3. A work frequently used as a source.
   4. A mark or footnote used to direct a reader elsewhere for additional information.
6. Law.
   1. Submission of a case to a referee.
   2. Legal actions conducted before or by a referee.
7. 1. A person who is in a position to recommend another or to vouch for his or her fitness, as for a job.
   2. A statement about a person's qualifications, character, and dependability.

1. To supply references to: “Our memories are addressed and referenced . . . by significant fragments of their own content” (Frederick Turner).
2. To mention in a reference; refer to: He referenced her book in his speech.

   "Reference." The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004.

Regional

The regional category contains information about various geographical regions of the world. It is only for english language webpages and any other language pages should be submitted to the World category.

Something, such as a magazine or a company branch, that serves a region: “earlier attempts to launch glossy regionals for women” (Business Week).

"Regional." The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004.

Science

This section is concerned only with informative scientific sites. If your site is for the selling of equipment etc then please ensure it is listed in the correct Shopping category.

1. 1. The observation, identification, description, experimental investigation, and theoretical explanation of phenomena.
   2. Such activities restricted to a class of natural phenomena.
   3. Such activities applied to an object of inquiry or study.
2. Methodological activity, discipline, or study: I've got packing a suitcase down to a science.
3. An activity that appears to require study and method: the science of purchasing.
4. Knowledge, especially that gained through experience.
5. Science - Christian Science.

"Science." The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004.

Shopping

This is probably our biggest section. Please navigate and find the most relevant category for your site. Please refrain from deep linking in this section, you should use your main page as the submitted link.

The focus of this section is for our users to find websites that sell products through ecommerce and to a lesser extent mail order and telephone shopping.

1. also shoppe. A small retail store or a specialty department in a large store.
2. An atelier; a studio.
3. A place for manufacturing or repairing goods or machinery.
4. A commercial or industrial establishment: a printing shop.
5. A business establishment; an office or a center of activity.
6. A home workshop.
7. 1. A schoolroom fitted with machinery and tools for instruction in industrial arts.
   2. The industrial arts as a technical science or course of study.

"Shopping." The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004.

Society

The society section is concerned with english speaking areas of human interaction, thoughts and speculations including interesting philosophical sites etc. Adult content based sites should be submitted ONLY to the Adult section. Any Shopping sites should be submitted to the relevant Shopping Sub-Category. and any Regional sites should be submitted to the relevant region.

[French société, from Old French, from Latin societas, fellowship, from socius, companion.]

"Society." The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004.

Sports

If you dont find what you are looking for in the Sports section he make sure and check in the Games section.

1. 1. Physical activity that is governed by a set of rules or customs and often engaged in competitively.
   2. A particular form of this activity.
2. An activity involving physical exertion and skill that is governed by a set of rules or customs and often undertaken competitively.
3. An active pastime; recreation.
4. 1. Mockery; jest: He made sport of his own looks.
   2. An object of mockery, jest, or play: treated our interests as sport.
   3. A joking mood or attitude: She made the remark in sport.
5. 1. One known for the manner of one's acceptance of rules, especially of a game, or of a difficult situation: a poor sport.
   2. Informal. One who accepts rules or difficult situations well.
   3. Informal. A pleasant companion: was a real sport during the trip.
6. Informal.
   1. A person who lives a jolly, extravagant life.
   2. A gambler at sporting events.
7. Biology. An organism that shows a marked change from the normal type or parent stock, typically as a result of mutation.
8. Maine.
9. Obsolete. Amorous dalliance; lovemaking.

"Sport." The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004.

World

This section is for non English speaking websites. So if your site is primarily English speaking and offers translation services then it should be listed in the Translation section

1. The earth.
2. The universe.
3. The earth with its inhabitants.
4. The inhabitants of the earth; the human race.
5. 1. Humankind considered as social beings; human society: turned her back on the world.
   2. People as a whole; the public: The event amazed the world.
6. often World A specified part of the earth: the Western World.
7. A part of the earth and its inhabitants as known at a given period in history: the ancient world.
8. A realm or domain: the animal world; the world of imagination.
9. 1. A sphere of human activity or interest: the world of sports.
   2. A class or group of people with common characteristics or pursuits: the scientific world.
10. A particular way of life: the world of the homeless.
11. All that relates to or affects the life of a person: He saw his world collapse about him.
12. Secular life and its concerns: a man of the world.
13. 1. Human existence; life: brought a child into the world.
    2. A state of existence: the next world.
14. A large amount; much. Often used in the plural: did her a world of good; candidates that are worlds apart on foreign policy.
15. A celestial body such as a planet: the possibility of life on other worlds.