MOORED

Definition: MOORED

MOORED

Imperative & past participle

1. Of Moor

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "MOORED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

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.

Crosswords: MOORED

Books

• Moored to the Mast: The U. S. Navy's Lighter-Than-Air Program at Lakehurst, New Jersey (reference)

• Safety Moored at Last: Cultural Landscape Report for New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park (Cultural Landscape Publication, No. 16.) (reference)

  (more book examples)

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

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.

She was moored near the arsenal

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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.

Expressions using "MOORED": moored mine ♦ Pilot Research Moored Array in the Tropical Atlantic. Additional references.

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)

Derivations

Words ending with "MOORED": unmoored. (additional references)

Misspellings

"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 (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: roomed.

-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.

+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.