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mooring::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | mooring line |
| Type of | line |
| Has types | headfast |
| Derivation | moor |
mooring::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | berth, moorage, slip |
| Type of | anchorage, anchorage ground |
| Derivation | moor |
Examples of mooring
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Winkelman, Petros and yours truly were spread out in one harbor's mooring area.
From the dailyherald.com
Even his five-tonne boat was plucked from its mooring to rest at the top of tree.
From the nzherald.co.nz
These have brought the problem of cost-effective mooring back into the spotlight.
From the sciencedaily.com
Then the Ismay tacked and in a straight reach beat the Warspite to the mooring.
From the en.wikipedia.org
They were also freshly painted and their mooring cables were recently lubricated.
From the en.wikipedia.org
An update to a chart, a submerged mooring, plotted somewhere along our track line.
From the forbes.com
If you want to stay put in an area, you have to pay for a residential mooring.
From the guardian.co.uk
With plenty of mooring for passing boats from the marina and shoreham harbour.
From the theargus.co.uk
The 45-foot catamaran, Energy, broke free of its mooring in the wee hours of Sept.
From the sfgate.com
- A place where a craft can be made fast
- (nautical) a line that holds an object (especially a boat) in place
- A mooring in oceanography is a collection of devices, connected to a wire and temporarily anchored on the sea floor. The devices are current meters to measure the direction and speed of ocean currents, sediment traps to catch settling particles from the water column or experimental chambers, e. ...
- A vessel is said to be moored when it is fastened to a fixed object such as a bollard, pier, quay or the seabed, or to a floating object such as an anchor buoy.
- The Mooring is an upcoming film starring Hallie Todd, Thomas Wilson Brown, and ten young actors from across the United States. The film is a suspense thriller scheduled for a 2010 release, and was directed by veteran actor Glenn Withrow. The film was shot on location in St. ...
- (The Moorings) The Moorings is a guard-gated private community in the unincorporated East Islip hamlet of Suffolk County, New York and is not a census-designated place (CDP) within itself. It is situated on Long Island's Great South Bay.
- A place to moor a vessel; The act of securing a vessel with a cable or anchor etc
- (moorings) place where a ship anchors
- (Moorings) the ties attacked to the ship to dock it at a pier. The term also applies to the place were the ship is docked.
