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mooring Definition

moor·ing (mo̵or)

noun

  1. the act of a person or thing that moors
  2. the lines, cables, etc. by which a ship, etc. is moored
  3. a place where a ship, etc. is or can be moored
  4. beliefs, habits, ties, etc. that make one feel secure
mooring Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • deploy: After dinner an EBS trawl was undertaken across the caldera itself, in-between moorings deployed previously by a US team of researchers.
  • swing: A swinging mooring 40 meters from the waters edge is included in the price.

Preposition: for

  • yacht: Today it is a successful waterfront area with cafes, shops and moorings for 1,500 yachts and boats.

Adjective modifier

  • 60ft: By the time we returned - quite early - two or three 60ft moorings were now available on the towpath side.
  • 48-hour: The first section of moorings at this end appeared to be unrestricted: after that they were 48-hour moorings.
  • overnight: Our overnight mooring at Newport, just above the bridge.
  • non-residential: The boat is currently moored on a temporary, NON-RESIDENTIAL mooring near Hampton Court in Surrey on the River Thames.
  • residential: I'm hoping to find a residential mooring in Cork Harbor.
  • permanent: All boat owners are required to have a permanent mooring for their vessel.

Modifies a noun

  • pontoon: The two piles for the floating mooring pontoon can also be seen.
  • bollard: In front of the cottages are two mooring bollards which were used to secure boats to the landing stage.
  • rope: At 1850 GMT, four robbers armed with crowbars boarded a bulk carrier, gaining access via the forward mooring ropes.
  • basin: Wed 10th Jul 2002: Looking west across the upper mooring basin from the path leading up to the junction bridge.
  • pin: Next morning we found our mooring pin had nearly pulled out!

Noun used with modifier

  • pontoon: Surely some floating pontoon moorings could be provided here?
  • off-line: As a general principle, off-line moorings are always preferable to creating new linear moorings.
  • visitor: The visitor moorings are on the left, just beyond the bridge.
  • marina: The marina pontoon moorings showing the special piles that allow for a 20ft rise in water level.
  • towpath: We turned here and reversed into a towpath mooring as our boat is too high to fit through the tunnel.
  • yacht: We decided to try diving on the site of the Duke of Westminster's yacht mooring on the far side of the loch.

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