Definition of mooring
1 : an act of making fast a boat or aircraft with lines or anchors
2a : a place where or an object to which something (such as a craft) can be mooredb : a device (such as a line or chain) by which an object is secured in place
3 : an established practice or stabilizing influence : anchorage 2 —usually used in plural
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Examples of mooring in a Sentence
We found a temporary mooring in the harbor.
The wind was strong enough to tear the boat from its moorings.
Recent Examples of mooring from the Web
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Their ship filled with water, snapped its mooring lines and sank, drowning three.
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Rumi scholars, the piece explained, often noted that modern interest in Rumi and his spiritual ideas tended to gloss over the Islamic moorings of his philosophy.
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A 90-minute bus ride through the countryside took us to our mooring along the Danube.
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Photographs that the union provided showed signals ripped from their moorings and switches heavily damaged.
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Those buoys were ultimately ripped loose from their moorings by the storm.
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Those buoys, seen in the image above, were ultimately ripped loose from their moorings by the storm.
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Conservatives believed the Southern Baptist Convention got caught in the cultural currents of the 1960s and 1970s and drifted too far from biblical moorings.
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Pro-EU globalists have looked to Mr. Macron and France for mooring in an otherwise uncertain geopolitical time, including a shock result for the Tories in Britain yesterday that complicates Brexit negotiations with Europe.
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First Known Use of mooring
15th century
MOORING Defined for English Language Learners
mooring
playDefinition of mooring for English Language Learners
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: a place where a boat or ship can be anchored or moored
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moorings : the anchors, ropes, and cables that are used to hold a boat or ship in place
MOORING Defined for Kids
mooring
playDefinition of mooring for Students
1 : a place where a boat can be fastened so it will not float away
2 : a chain or line used to hold a boat in place
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