英语词汇“mooring”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	mooring
释义	moor·ing \ˈmu̇riŋ, -rēŋ sometimes ˈmōr- or ˈmȯr-\ noun (-s) Etymology: Middle English moring, from gerund of moren to moor — more at moor 1. : an act of making fast a boat or aircraft by means of chains, lines, anchors, or other devices 2. a. : a place where or an object to which a craft can be made fast < the lake provides mooring for 166 planes — Elsie M. B. Grosvenor > < yacht clubs … of the sort that maintains neither docks nor moorings — M.M.Hunt > b. : a chain, line, or other device by which an object (as a boat) is secured in place < one of the best tests of a seaman is to let him pick up a mooring under varying conditions of wind, sea and tide — W.P.Moore > 3. : an established practice or stabilizing influence : anchorage 4 — usually used in plural < modern man has been torn from his spiritual moorings — F.L.Baumer > < this shift from normal political moorings — Arthur Krock >
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