mooring
pronunciation
How to pronounce mooring in British English:
UK [ˈmɔ:rɪŋ]
How to pronounce mooring in American English:
US [ˈmʊrɪŋ]
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- Noun:
- a place where a craft can be made fast
- (nautical) a line that holds an object (especially a boat) in place
Word Origin
- mooring (n.)
- "place where a vessel can be moored," early 15c., "process of making a ship secure," verbal noun from moor (v.).
Example
- 1. It will gain revenues from this by charging management fees from boat users mooring at the facility .
- 2. In the maldives , the floating islands will be anchored to the seabed using cables or telescopic mooring piles , making landforms that are stable even in storms .
- 3. The project also engaged the fishing and tourism industries for improved management of the marine environment through tourism , dive guides and fishers , and established permanent mooring buoys to avoid boat anchor damage
- 4. Asplund 65 lives on a houseboat called viking tied to a permanent mooring on lake m laren in central stockholm .
- 5. Following installation at the test site , a number of operations and tests will follow , examining the response of the buoy 's structure and mooring system to waves , and the power produced by the onboard generator .