mooring

«mooring» in Mova's school dictionary: tied up, often with a rope to a post or buoy — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a mooring, moorings); verb form of «moor» (moor, moors, moored, mooring)

meaning for a pupil

1) A place where a boat is tied up, often with a rope to a post or buoy. tree →

2) Moorings are the ropes, chains and anchors that hold a boat in place. tree →

3) «Mooring» is also the -ing form of «to moor», tying a boat up. tree →

4) (figurative) Losing your moorings means losing the things that keep you steady. tree →

sense in the lessons

In river and sea stories, especially The Wind in the Willows, the Rat's boat is tied up at its mooring. On canals and harbours boats have moorings.

examples

• The Rat tied the boat to its mooring. tree →
• The boats bobbed at their moorings in the harbour. tree →
• They were mooring the boat for the night. tree →
• The storm tore the yacht from its moorings. tree →
• We found a mooring near the lock. tree →
• Without his friends, he felt he had lost his moorings. tree →

note

From «moor» (to tie up a boat). «A moor» is also a wild open hill land; different meaning.

In the corpora

• Never play near harbour edges, quays or mooring ropes; the water is deep and cold and ropes can snap tight.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «mooring» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.