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Definition: MOORED |
MOOREDImperative & past participle1. Of Moor |
Date "MOORED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Location | Moored; Verb: at anchor. |
Presence | Adjective: present; occupying, inhabiting; Verb: moored; resiant, resident, residentiary; domiciled. |
Stability | Tethered, anchored, moored, at anchor, on a rock, rock solid, firm as a rock; firmly seated, firmly established; Verb: deep-rooted, ineradicable; inveterate; obstinate. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: MOORED |
| English words defined with "MOORED": Floating light ♦ Light-ship ♦ ride ♦ Unmoor ♦ Wharf boat. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "MOORED": antiwatching device ♦ datum dan buoy ♦ married failure ♦ RUBBER AND PLASTICS WORKER ♦ shore gangway. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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![]() | Testing moored instrument package for GATE Project Operations on NOAA Ship WHITING. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. | ![]() | Current meter for deployment from deep-ocean moored buoy Deployed off of OCEANOGRAPHER on DOMES project DOMES was a study to determine the environmental impact of ocean mining. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
![]() | Lake Union from the Space Needle. NOAA ships in port moored at Pacific Marine Center. Credit: America's Coastlines. | ![]() | FAIRWEATHER moored at Marine Corps Air Station in Kaneohe Bay. During Hurricane Iwa. Power knocked out to Marine Corps Base. FAIRWEATHER cooked Thanksgiving turkeys for Marine Corps families. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
![]() | JOHN N. COBB moored in Juneau during January cruise. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. | ![]() | The JOHN N. COBB moored at Little Port Walter. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
![]() | A charter dive boat moored at a marina. Credit: Fisheries. | ![]() | NOAA Ship ALBATROSS IV proceeding to study Gulf Stream eddies. Buoys will be moored with tethered instrument packages. Credit: Fisheries. |
![]() | Tobagoan fishing boats loaded with nets and moored in Man-of-War Bay. Credit: Small World. | ![]() | USS Benevolence (AH-13) moored amid the "Crossroads" target fleet, 13 July 1946. Ship at far left is USS Saratoga (CV-3). Closest ship in right background is either USS Pensacola (CA-24) or USS Salt Lake City (CA-25). Credit: NAVY. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "Cruise Ship" by Paul Porteous Commentary: "Cruise Ship - The Hanseatic moored at Fowey Cornwall." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | She was moored near the arsenal |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | In 1998 the Port of Barcelona moved over 25 million tons of merchandise and 7,712 ships moored in their facilities. (references) | |
Economic History | Netherlands | About half of the total number of boats are moored in about 1,250 marinas. (references) |
Netherlands | The rest are moored along shorelines, although this is gradually being discouraged by local authorities. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "MOORED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 52.23% of the time. "MOORED" is used about 157 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 52.23% | 82 | 36,594 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 26.11% | 41 | 53,521 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 21.02% | 33 | 60,273 |
| Noun (common) | 0.64% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 157 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "MOORED": moored mine ♦ Pilot Research Moored Array in the Tropical Atlantic. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "MOORED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 停泊 (Berthed, Berthing, Moor, mooring). (various references) | |
Danish | stilleliggende skib (moored vessel), olien ledes fra produktionsplatformen til en enkeltpunktsfortoejningsboeje,hvorfra den saa kan overfoeres til opankrede tankskibe gennem flydeslangen (from which it can be transferred to moored tankers via the floating hose, oil flows from the production platform to a single-buoy mooring), fortoejet udenfor raekken (moored outside on the row), fortoejet i raekke (moored inside a row), forankret mine (moored mine), for mange fortoejet uden paa hinanden (moored supernumerarily), fast forankret redningsflaade (permanently moored air-sea rescue float). (various references) | |
Dutch | verankerd reddingvlot (permanently moored air-sea rescue float), te breed gemeerd (moored supernumerarily), stilliggend schip (moored vessel), buitenop de rij gemeerd (moored outside on the row), binnen in een rij vastgemaakt (moored inside a row), binnen in een rij gemeerd (moored inside a row). (various references) | |
French | mine à orin (moored mine), l'huile s'écoule de la plate-forme de production vers une bouée d'amarrage à point unique,à partir de laquelle elle peut être transférée,au moyen du flexible flottant,dans les navires enleveurs amarrés (from which it can be transferred to moored tankers via the floating hose, oil flows from the production platform to a single-buoy mooring), batiments stationnaires (moored vessels), bateau-bouée de sauvetage amarré (permanently moored air-sea rescue float), bateau en repos (moored vessel), bateau au mouillage (moored vessel), bateau amarre à la jetee (vessel moored to the pier), amarré en surnombre (moored supernumerarily), amarré du côté extérieur de la rangée (moored outside on the row), amarré à l'intérieur d'une rangée (moored inside a row). (various references) | |
German | machte, fest (abiding, attached, banquet, buoyant, buoyantly, carnival, celebration, closely, compact, consistent, constant, continual, continuous, crisp, definite, faithfully, fast, feast, festival, festivity, fete, fexed, firm, firmly, fix, fixated, fixed, gaiety, hard, heavy, immovable, ingrained, junket, lasting, non-varying, party, permanent, permanently, proof, regular, robust, safely, secure, securely, set, settled, solid, solidly, sound, squarely, stable, steadfast, steadily, steady, stiff, stout, stoutly, strong, sturdy, sustained, tight, tighten, tightly, tough, unfaltering, unhesitating, unshrinking, unwavering, unwaveringly). (various references) | |
Greek | προσδεδεμένο στο μέσο μιας σειράς σκαφών (moored inside a row), πλοίο-σημαντήρας διάσωσης (permanently moored air-sea rescue float), αγκυροβολημένος στην εξωτερική πλευρά σειράς σκαφών (moored outside on the row), αγκυροβολημένο σκάφος (moored vessel), αγκυροβολημένο υπεράριθμα (moored supernumerarily). (various references) | |
Hungarian | széllel szemben kikötött hajó (ship moored head to), lehorgonyzott akna (moored mine). (various references) | |
Italian | l'olio fluisce dalla piattaforma di produzione ad un ormeggio a boa singola,dalla quale puo essere trasferito a petroliere(o navi cisterna)a mezzo di tubi flessibili galleggianti (from which it can be transferred to moored tankers via the floating hose, oil flows from the production platform to a single-buoy mooring), battello-gavitello di salvataggio (permanently moored air-sea rescue float). (various references) | |
Korean | 계류하는. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ooredmay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | barco de salvação (permanently moored air-sea rescue float). (various references) | |
Spanish | el petroleo fluye desde la plataforma de produccion hacia un anclaje de una sola boya desde la cual se conduce a traves de la manguera flotante hacia los petroleros fondeados (from which it can be transferred to moored tankers via the floating hose, oil flows from the production platform to a single-buoy mooring), barco boya para salvamento (permanently moored air-sea rescue float). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "MOORED": unmoored. (additional references) | |
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"MOORED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: doored, maiorem, maore, miaoued, modred, moeder, Moirpeth, mokoro, monoprix, monorer, monref, mooran, Moorat, moore, moorea, Moorend, moorer, Moorey, moorii, mord, morde, mordex, morea, moreb, morec, mored, moref, moreg, morej, morep, morev, morew, Morfeld, morhed, moriendi, morned, mouri, murad, murd, murde, murrid, Noord, Omerod. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "MOORED" (pronounced muh"rd) |
| 3 | -uh" r d | allured, assured, cured, inured, lured, endured, ensured, insured, matured, obscured, procured, reassured, reinsured, secured, toured, uninsured, unsecured. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: roomed. | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-m-o-o-r" | |
-1 letter: mooed, rodeo, romeo. | |
-2 letters: demo, derm, doer, dome, doom, door, dore, dorm, mode, mood, moor, more, odor, omer, ordo, redo, rode, rood, room. | |
-3 letters: doe, dom, dor, med, mod, moo, mor, ode, ore, red, rem, rod, roe, rom. | |
-4 letters: de, do, ed, em, er, me, mo, od, oe, om, or, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-m-o-o-r" | |
+1 letter: bedroom, boredom, broomed, doormen, groomed, moidore, moodier, motored, vroomed. | |
+2 letters: bedrooms, boredoms, doomster, dormouse, foredoom, headroom, marooned, moderato, moidores, odometer, odometry, podomere, pogromed, prodrome, promoted, unmoored, varoomed, whoredom. | |
+3 letters: aerodrome, astrodome, bedroomed, broodmare, comforted, commodore, comported, condemnor, conformed, doomsayer, doomsters, endomorph, foredooms, godmother, headrooms, ideomotor, loxodrome, meteoroid, microcode, moderator, moderatos, monitored, motorcade, motorised, motorized, odometers, podomeres, prodromes, protoderm, rebloomed, regroomed, velodrome, whoredoms. | |
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