MOORING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mooring mean? 

• MOORING (noun)
  The noun MOORING has 2 senses:

1. a place where a craft can be made fast

2. (nautical) a line that holds an object (especially a boat) in place

  Familiarity information: MOORING used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MOORING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A place where a craft can be made fast

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

berth; moorage; mooring; slip

Hypernyms ("mooring" is a kind of...):

anchorage; anchorage ground (place for vessels to anchor)

Derivation:

moor (secure in or as if in a berth or dock)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(nautical) a line that holds an object (especially a boat) in place

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

mooring; mooring line

Hypernyms ("mooring" is a kind of...):

line (something (as a cord or rope) that is long and thin and flexible)

Domain category:

boat (a small vessel for travel on water)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mooring"):

headfast (a mooring line that secures the bow of a boat or ship to a wharf)

Derivation:

moor (secure with cables or ropes)

 Context examples 

Data from the instruments deployed on the mooring showed that solar heated surface water flows into the cavity under the ice shelf near Ross Island, causing melt rates to nearly triple during the summer months.

(Rapid melting of the world’s largest ice shelf linked to solar heat in the ocean, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)