Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act or an instance of making fast an aircraft or a vessel, as by a cable or anchor.
- noun A place or structure to which a vessel or aircraft can be moored.
- noun Equipment, such as anchors or chains, for holding fast a vessel or aircraft.
- noun Beliefs or familiar ways of thinking that provide psychological stability or security.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Nautical:
- noun The act of securing a ship or boat in a particular place by means of anchors, etc.
- noun Mostly in the plural, that by which a ship is confined or secured, as the anchors, chains, and bridles laid athwart the bottom of a river or harbor: as, she lay at her moorings. Hence, generally
- noun That to which anything is fastened, or by which it is held.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of confining a ship to a particular place, by means of anchors or fastenings.
- noun That which serves to confine a ship to a place, as anchors, cables, bridles, etc.
- noun The place or condition of a ship thus confined.
- noun (Naut.) a heavy block of cast iron sometimes used as an anchor for mooring vessels.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Present participle of
moor . - noun A place to
moor a vessel - noun The act of
securing a vessel with acable oranchor etc. - noun figuratively Something to which one adheres to, or the means that help one maintain a stable position and keep one's identity - moral, intellectual, political, etc.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (nautical) a line that holds an object (especially a boat) in place
- noun a place where a craft can be made fast
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Examples
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WARNER: Well, I simply said, very carefully, that this ship was part of what you call the mooring team that come and are supplied by the harbors throughout the world.
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No difficulty whatever was experienced in mooring the buoys in the deepest water, two having been left behind moored with pieces of cable that had been picked up from a depth of two miles.
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FRASER: The mooring is a standard procedure, particularly in Middle East ports where a mooring boat will come alongside, take your mooring line and then ran it over to the pier.
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A mooring is a buoy connected to an extremely heavy anchor or weight such as an engine block.
Sailing Fundamentals Gary Jobson 1998
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A mooring is a buoy connected to an extremely heavy anchor or weight such as an engine block.
Sailing Fundamentals Gary Jobson 1998
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Kalakala from its current berth in Tacoma with the idea of mooring it on PA's waterfront and renovating it as a multi-purpose entertainment center.
Crosscut Knute Berger 2010
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Kalakala from its current berth in Tacoma with the idea of mooring it on PA's waterfront and renovating it as a multi-purpose entertainment center.
Crosscut Knute Berger 2010
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Kalakala from its current berth in Tacoma with the idea of mooring it on PA's waterfront and renovating it as a multi-purpose entertainment center.
Crosscut Knute Berger 2010
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Kalakala from its current berth in Tacoma with the idea of mooring it on PA's waterfront and renovating it as a multi-purpose entertainment center.
Crosscut Knute Berger 2010
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This chain, called a mooring, looks a bit like a Christmas garland with its giant-sized orange and yellow buoys.
jwjarvis commented on the word mooring
Because society has drifted from the spiritual moorings of calling, it has developed some odd and distorted doctrines about finding your calling.
June 29, 2010
GHibbs commented on the word mooring
My adjectival use: 'Hand me the mooring rope.'
August 23, 2011