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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Moor \Moor\ (m[=oo]r), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Moored (m[=oo]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Mooring.] [Prob. fr. D. marren to tie, fasten, or moor a ship. See Mar.]
(Naut.) To fix or secure, as a vessel, in a particular place by casting anchor, or by fastening with cables or chains; as, the vessel was moored in the stream; they moored the boat to the wharf.
Fig.: To secure, or fix firmly.
--Brougham.
Mooring \Moor"ing\, n.
The act of confining a ship to a particular place, by means of anchors or fastenings.
That which serves to confine a ship to a place, as anchors, cables, bridles, etc.
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pl. The place or condition of a ship thus confined.
And the tossed bark in moorings swings.
--Moore.Mooring block (Naut.), a heavy block of cast iron sometimes used as an anchor for mooring vessels.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"place where a vessel can be moored," early 15c., "process of making a ship secure," verbal noun from moor (v.).\n
Wiktionary
n. 1 A place to moor a vessel 2 The act of securing a vessel with a cable or anchor etc. 3 (context figuratively English) 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. vb. (present participle of moor English)
WordNet
n. a place where a craft can be made fast [syn: moorage, berth, slip]
(nautical) a line that holds an object (especially a boat) in place [syn: mooring line]
Wikipedia
A mooring refers to any permanent structure to which a vessel may be secured. Examples include quays, wharfs, jetties, piers, anchor buoys, and mooring buoys. A ship is secured to a mooring to forestall free movement of the ship on the water. An anchor mooring fixes a vessel's position relative to a point on the bottom of a waterway without connecting the vessel to shore. As a verb, mooring refers to the act of attaching a vessel to a mooring.
The term probably stems from the Dutch verb meren (to moor), which has been used in English since the end of the 15th century.
Mooring may refer to:
- Mooring (surname)
- Mooring (North Frisian dialect), a dialect spoken in the German region of North Frisia
- Mooring (oceanography) equipped with various devices to measure oceanographic parameters
- Mooring (watercraft), any structure to which a vessel may be secured by means of cables, anchors, or lines
- Mooring mast, a structure designed to hold airships and blimps securely in the open when they are not in flight
- The Mooring, a 2012 feature film
- The Moorings, New York, an exclusive guard gated private community
- Moorings, Inc., a Yacht Charter and Sailboat Rental Company based in Clearwater, Florida (established 1969)
A mooring in oceanography is a collection of devices, connected to a wire and anchored on the sea floor. It is the Eulerian way of measuring ocean currents, since a mooring is stationary at a fixed location. In contrast to that, the Lagrangian way measures the motion of an oceanographic drifter, see Lagrangian drifter.
Mooring is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- George Mooring (1908 1969), British civil servant
- Jim Mooring (1917–2007), Australian rules footballer
- Johnny Mooring (1927–1974), Canadian singer-songwriter
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Leeland Dayton Mooring (born 1988), American singer, member of the Christian band Leeland
- Jack Anthony Mooring and Shelly Mooring, also members of the Christian band Leeland
Mooring or Bökingharde Frisian (Böökinghiirder frasch) is a dialect of the North Frisian language spoken in Niebüll and the amt of Bökingharde in the German region of North Frisia. The name Mooring refers to the Risum Bog (Risem Moor or Risem Måår). The dialect forms part of the mainland group of North Frisian dialects.
Mooring is often used as a North Frisian lingua franca, especially on the internet, and there is a Mooring Frisian primary school in Risum-Lindholm.
Usage examples of "mooring".
Some monstrous shape that looked like a windmill off its moorings was falling toward Andy and his mestizo foemen.
There was a jetty at the bottom of the village, a crook of stone quay in whose shelter a couple of dinghies shifted uneasily on outhaul moorings.
Then his prosthetic thumb was over her eyeball, pushing down and out, rending muscles, ripping the hollow globe free from its moorings.
Justen bowed, then grasped the railing to catch his balance as the ship, after rebounding from the pier, shuddered at the end of the taut mooring lines.
Then we painted her until she glistened, sleek and lovely, before we refloated her and took her out to moorings.
Japanese Government, unwilling to cut its last moorings to caution, had so far been resisting the pressure of its military members to join the Axis.
Marghe felt the ale ungluing her world, slipping it free from its moorings.
Ahab sniffing along behind him, the Professor puffed across to the port bow and, to the echo of a rousing cheer, untied the final mooring line and threw it back up onto the dock.
He had been secreted aboard in the middle of the night, carried in soft blankets, while the fires were burning down and the sea winds tugged at the moorings.
They had charted an amphib and had spent week after blissful week hopping from island to island or just mooring out in the gentle seas, soaking up the sun and each other.
Richius had wandered from his rooms and found himself on the mooring docks just outside the palace, watching the catboats slip in and out.
Alex sat back in his rocker, listening to the chief, and admiring the pretty little cove filled with sturdy-looking lobster boats, and small gaff-rigged sloops, and catboats riding at their moorings.
Indians grabbed the mooring ropes and seized the Chukchee interpreter, whom Waxel had brought from Siberia.
Her decolletage, already strained, threatened to burst its moorings altogether.
Leviathan, which God of all his works Created hugest that swim the ocean-stream, the picture that follows of the Norse-pilot mooring his boat under the lee of the monster is completed in a line that attunes the mind once more to all the pathos and gloom of those infernal deeps: while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays.