mooring
mooring Lexical Profile
mooring Game Scores & Validity
• noun
A designated place or structure where a ship, boat, or aircraft is secured.
"The captain guided the sailboat carefully toward its mooring in the crowded harbor."
The ropes, cables, chains, or anchors used to hold a vessel securely in place.
"During the heavy storm, the crew had to double the ship's moorings to prevent it from drifting into the rocks."
An element, belief, or connection that provides stability, security, or a sense of reality to a person or system.
"After losing his job and moving to a new city, he felt as though he had been cut loose from all his emotional moorings."
Word Nuance & Usage
Often used in the plural ('moorings') to describe the cables and anchors securing a vessel, or figuratively to describe someone's ties to reality, tradition, or moral stability.
• Rhymes for mooring
Word Origin & Etymology
Late Middle English, derived from the verb 'moor' (to fasten a ship) combined with the suffix '-ing', denoting the action, result, or means of fastening.
Usage Trend
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