Mooring

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  • 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.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 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.
    • 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. a heavy block of cast iron sometimes used as an anchor for mooring vessels.
    • 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 a cable or anchor etc.
  • noun. 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.
    • 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
    • Word Usage
    "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."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    anchorage  anchorage ground  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    During  Turing  alluring  assuring  curing  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    anchorage  s-curve  
    Synonym
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    anchor  anchorage  anchorage ground  basin  berth  
    verb-stem
    moor  
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