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# mooring

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

«mooring» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A place where a boat is tied up, often with a rope to a post or buoy. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mooring/#m1)
2. Moorings are the ropes, chains and anchors that hold a boat in place. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mooring/#m2)
3. «Mooring» is also the -ing form of «to moor», tying a boat up. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mooring/#m3)
4. (figurative) Losing your moorings means losing the things that keep you steady. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mooring/#m4)

### 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mooring/#x1)
- The boats bobbed at their moorings in the harbour. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mooring/#x2)
- They were mooring the boat for the night. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mooring/#x3)
- The storm tore the yacht from its moorings. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mooring/#x4)
- We found a mooring near the lock. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mooring/#x5)
- Without his friends, he felt he had lost his moorings. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mooring/#x6)

### Note

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

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «mooring» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mooring/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«mooring» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/mooring.html) on Mova free.