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Moorage

Definition: Moorage

Moorage

Noun

1. A fee for mooring.

2. A place where a craft can be made fast.

3. A act of securing an arriving vessel with ropes.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Specialty Definition: Moorage

DomainDefinition

Economics

Charges assessed for mooring a vessel to a pier or wharf. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Moorage

Synonyms: berth (n), docking (n), mooring (n), slip (n), tying up (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Moorage

Specialty definitions using "moorage": CONCRETE-FLOAT MAKER. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Moorage

DomainTitle

Books

  • Boating and Moorage in the '90s: Proceedings of a Conference, October 19-21, 1988, Everett, Washington (reference)

  • Docks and destinations : coastal marinas and moorage : a west coast cruising dock-to-dock destinations guide, San Juan Islands to Port Hardy (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Moorage

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

moorage seine

13

moorage seattle

6

lake moorage washington

4

moorage

3

boat moorage

3

lake moorage union

2

boat moorage seattle

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Moorage

Language Translations for "moorage"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Afrikaans

  

ankerplek (anchorage, mooring). (various references)

   

Albanian

  

vend skele, pagesë për skelë. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏مرسى (anchorage, berth, mooring), ‏رسم الإرساء, ‏رسو. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

такса за акостиране (quayage), кей (cob, embankment, front, jetty, landing stage, levee, pier, quay, slip, wharf), акостиране (boarding, mooring), приставане (elopement, mooring), пристан (flying bridge, levee, mole, pier, wharf). (various references)

   

Czech

  

zakotvení, poplatek za zakotvení. (various references)

   

Danish

  

fortoejning (mooring). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

vastmaken (affix, attach, bind, connect, determine, fasten, fix, join, make fast, secure, tie, tie up), rede (anchorage, logical reasoning, mooring, reason, speech), ligplaats (anchorage, mooring), ankerplaats (anchorage, mooring), afmeren (moor, mooring). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

rodo (anchorage, mooring), ankrejo (anchorage, mooring). (various references)

   

Faeroese

  

akkerspláss (anchorage, mooring). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

kiinnitys (fastening, mortgage). (various references)

   

French

  

mouillage (moistening, mooring), amarrage (mooring). (various references)

   

German

  

Liegeplatz (berth, moorings, place to lie). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

όρμοσ (anchorage, haven, inlet), αγκυροβόλιο (anchorage, berth), αγκυροβόληση (mooring). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

מקום ע'י ", א'רת רתיק", "מי ע'י ". (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

kikötési díj (mooring dues), kikötőhely (berth, landing-place, lay-by, mooring). (various references)

   

Italian

  

ormeggio (berth, mooring, roadstead). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

停泊地 (anchorage, roadstead). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ていはくち (anchorage, roadstead). (various references)

   

Manx

  

lhiabbee akeragh (anchoring berth, berth, berthing). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ooragemay

   

Portuguese

  

ancoradouro (anchorage, berth, Creek, Harbor, harbour, haven, lay days, mooring, moorings, pier). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

afurcare, acostare (accosting, landing, solicitation). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

место причала, плата за стоянку судна. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

sidrenje. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

amarre (halter, lashing, mooring, tether, tether cable, tie, tying). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

förtöjning (mooring, tether, tether cable). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

gemi bağlama yeri (moorings), demir atma. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

місце причалу (berth), плата за стоянку судна. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

thuế bỏ neo, sự cột thuyền, sự bỏ neo nơi buộc thuyền, nơi bỏ neo thuế đậu thuyền. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Moorage

Derivations

Words beginning with "moorage": moorages. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Moorage" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Amouage, Maaargh, mayorazgo, metreage, Miodrag, Moirae, Mokoroane, Momorangi, moorgai, morae, morage, Morajela, morgage, morge, Morhange, mortage, mourge, Mourjane, Muregi, Nuraghe. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Moorage"

Words rhyming with "moorage" (pronounced 'Moor"age'): Abusage, Accourage, Adage, Adjustage, Alloyage, Amperage, Appendage, Arrearage, Berthage, Blindage, blockage, Boatage, Bondage, Borage, Bordage, Bossage, Breakage, Brewage, Buoyage, Burgage, Careenage, Cartage, Centage, Checkage, Chiefage, Clearage, Cloudage, Clownage, Coinage, Corage, Cordage, Corkage, Costage, Couage, Courage, Cranage, Crimpage, Cuinage, Encourage, Endamage, Escheatage, Floodage, Floorage, flowage, Foldage, Fraughtage, freightage, Frequentage, frontage, fruitage. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Moorage

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-g-m-o-o-r"

-2 letters: gamer, groom, marge, morae, omega, regma, romeo.

-3 letters: aero, ager, ergo, game, gear, germ, goer, gore, gram, mage, mare, moor, mora, more, ogam, ogre, omer, rage, ream, roam, room.

-4 letters: age, ago, are, arm, ear, ego, era, erg, gae, gam, gar, gem, goa, goo, gor, mae, mag, mar, meg, moa, mog, moo, mor.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-g-m-o-o-r"
 

+1 letter: moorages.

 

+2 letters: boogerman, boomerang.

 

+3 letters: agronomies, boomerangs, gastronome, gramophone, monogramed.

 

+4 letters: boomeranged, coenamoring, dermatology, gametophore, gastronomes, gramophones, monogrammed, monogrammer, monographed, overprogram, prolegomena.

 

+5 letters: boomeranging, conglomerate, cosmographer, dermatologic, gametophores, gastronomies, heterogamous, longshoreman, metrological, monogrammers, nomographies, overprograms, rheumatology, tomographies.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Moorage


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4D 6F 6F 72 61 67 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

--    ---    ---    .-.    .-    --.    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001101 01101111 01101111 01110010 01100001 01100111 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#111 &#111 &#114 &#97 &#103 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 006F 006F 0072 0061 0067 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

47818184677371

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Rhymes
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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