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"MOORINGS" is a plural of: mooring. |
Date "MOORINGS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1613. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Connection | Bond, tendon, tendril; fiber; cord, cordage; riband, ribbon, rope, guy, cable, line, halser, hawser, painter, moorings, wire, chain; string; (filament). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: MOORINGS |
| English words defined with "MOORINGS": mushroom anchor. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "MOORINGS": armed sweep ♦ block time ♦ compliant mooring ♦ pile mooring. (references) |
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Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Radar display of multiple contacts of lobster pot moorings ALBATROSS IV had to find clear spot to trawl through. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | Positions of errant mines that broke away from moorings during the First World War and recovered in the North Atlantic between November 7, 1918, and February 9 , 1920. The apparent positions and motions of these mines conform to the model of circulation formulated by Prince Albert I of Monaco. Plate H. In: "Results of the Scientific Campaigns of the Prince of Monaco." Vol. 84. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
 | Photograph of the western side of Ford Island and ships in moorings offshore, taken from a Japanese Navy plane during the attack. Ships are (from left to right): USS Detroit (CL-8); USS Raleigh (CL-7), listing to port after being hit by one torpedo; USS Utah (AG-16), capsized after being hit by two torpedoes; and USS Tangier (AV-8), Japanese writing in the lower left states that the photograph's reproduction was authorized by the Navy Ministry. Credit: NAVY. |  | U.S. Navy carrier aircraft attack the Japanese battleship Haruna at her moorings near Kure, Japan, 28 July 1945. Photographed from a USS Intrepid (CV-11) plane. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Camouflaged at her moorings in the Flehke Fjord, Norway, during World War II. Credit: NAVY. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | On the lines which he had fancied the moorings of an ark a few lanterns swung in the night breeze, flickering cheerlessly. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | The market for moorings is dictated by the demand generated by the users on the Rio de la Plata coastline and is highly sensitive to the fluctuations of the Argentine economy. (references) | |
Over 75 percent of marinas, moorings, shipyards and related stores are located in this area. The rest of the activity in this sector takes place in interior provinces of Argentina on the most important rivers and lakes. (references) | ||
Isla del Este will be the biggest of the three with private moorings for boats up to 100 feet in length in each of the lots. It is located 20 kilometers North of Buenos Aires, on the confluence of Canal del Este and Rio de la Plata. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "MOORINGS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "MOORINGS" is used about 110 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 |
| Noun (plural) | 100% | 110 | 30,952 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "MOORINGS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | spirancë (anchor, grapnel, grappling iron, mooring), fuçitë. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | uvazovací lana, kotvištì (anchorage, berth, jetty, road, roadstead). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | vertäuung (mooring), verankerung (anchorage, anchoring, bracing, Embedding, establishment, fixing), liegeplatz (berth, moorage, place to lie), anlegestelle (landing stage, stop), anlegeplatz (berth, embarkation point, landing place, moorage, mooring). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | πείσματα. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kikötési cölöp, horgonybója, hajólánc kikötéshez, hajókötél kikötéshez. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | ormeggi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 停泊 (anchorage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ていはく (anchor, anchorage, mooring). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | moaryn, moaral (moor, mooring rope, tie up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ooringsmay amarras. (various references) швартовы, морские якоря. (various references) spokojstvo (ease, heartsease, tranquillity), ravnoteža (balance, equilibrium, equipoise). (various references) punto de atraque, amarras, amarradero (berth, landing-stage, moorage, mooring, pier). (various references) หยุ"แล่น (เรือ) (lie at anchor, lie at its moorings). (various references) palamar (cable, hawser, lashing, moors, warp), gemi bağlama yeri (moorage), şamandıra (buoy, float, makefast, pontoon). (various references) місце стоянки (berth). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"MOORINGS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Mirounga, Momorangi, monoprints, Morangis, moreing, moring, moringa, Morins, morions, mougins, mouring, mournings, muring. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "MOORINGS" (pronounced muw"ringz or mô"ringz) |
| 4 | -r i ng z | bearings, earrings, firings, hearings, herrings, rehearings. |
| 3 | -i ng z | beatings, beginnings, beheadings, beings, belongings, Billings, blessings, boardings, bombings, bookings, borrowings, briefings, buildings, burnings, bushings, carjackings, carvings, casings, castings, ceilings, clippings, closings, coatings, comings, couplings, coverings, cowlings, cravings, crossings, cuttings, darlings, dealings, doings, drawings, dressings, droppings, drownings, ducklings, dumplings, dwellings, earnings, earthlings, endings, engravings, etchings, evenings, everlastings, facings, failings, fastenings, feedings, feelings, fightings, filings, fillings, financings, findings, fittings, fixings, flavorings, followings, forgings, frostings, furnishings, gatherings, goings, greetings, groupings, hangings, happenings, headings, helpings, hijackings, holdings, housings, hustings, innings, killings, landholdings, landings, lashings, leanings, leavings, leggings, lemmings, lightnings, linings, listings, livings, loadings, lodgings, longings, lynchings, mailings, makings, marketings, markings, meanings, meetings, misgivings, misunderstandings, moldings, mornings, mouldings, muggings, musings, nestlings, nothings, offerings, openings, outings, paintings, pickings, pilings, plantings, pleadings, poisonings, postings, posturings, printings, proceedings, publishings, puddings, railings, rankings, ratings, readings, recordings, ridings, riggings, Rollings, rulings, rumblings, runnings, samplings, saplings, savings, sayings, schillings, scrapings, screenings, seasonings, seatings, seedlings, servings, settings, shadings, shavings, shillings, shipbuildings, shootings, shortcomings, showings, siblings, sightings, skillings, slayings, soundings, spellings, stabbings, standings, stockings, sufferings, surroundings, tailings, takings, teachings, tidings, toppings, trappings, trimmings, underlings, underpinnings, understandings, undertakings, uprisings, vikings, wanderings, warnings, weddings, whitings, winnings, workings, writings, wrongdoings, yearlings, yearnings. |
| 4 | -r i ng z | bearings, earrings, firings, hearings, herrings, rehearings. |
| 3 | -i ng z | beatings, beginnings, beheadings, beings, belongings, Billings, blessings, boardings, bombings, bookings, borrowings, briefings, buildings, burnings, bushings, carjackings, carvings, casings, castings, ceilings, clippings, closings, coatings, comings, couplings, coverings, cowlings, cravings, crossings, cuttings, darlings, dealings, doings, drawings, dressings, droppings, drownings, ducklings, dumplings, dwellings, earnings, earthlings, endings, engravings, etchings, evenings, everlastings, facings, failings, fastenings, feedings, feelings, fightings, filings, fillings, financings, findings, fittings, fixings, flavorings, followings, forgings, frostings, furnishings, gatherings, goings, greetings, groupings, hangings, happenings, headings, helpings, hijackings, holdings, housings, hustings, innings, killings, landholdings, landings, lashings, leanings, leavings, leggings, lemmings, lightnings, linings, listings, livings, loadings, lodgings, longings, lynchings, mailings, makings, marketings, markings, meanings, meetings, misgivings, misunderstandings, moldings, mornings, mouldings, muggings, musings, nestlings, nothings, offerings, openings, outings, paintings, pickings, pilings, plantings, pleadings, poisonings, postings, posturings, printings, proceedings, publishings, puddings, railings, rankings, ratings, readings, recordings, ridings, riggings, Rollings, rulings, rumblings, runnings, samplings, saplings, savings, sayings, schillings, scrapings, screenings, seasonings, seatings, seedlings, servings, settings, shadings, shavings, shillings, shipbuildings, shootings, shortcomings, showings, siblings, sightings, skillings, slayings, soundings, spellings, stabbings, standings, stockings, sufferings, surroundings, tailings, takings, teachings, tidings, toppings, trappings, trimmings, underlings, underpinnings, understandings, undertakings, uprisings, vikings, wanderings, warnings, weddings, whitings, winnings, workings, writings, wrongdoings, yearlings, yearnings. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-i-m-n-o-o-r-s" | |
-1 letter: mooring, morions, rooming, roosing. | |
-2 letters: girons, grison, groins, grooms, isogon, minors, mongos, mooing, morion, morons, ogrism, orison, rosing, signor, simoon, soring. | |
-3 letters: girns, giron, giros, gismo, goons, grins, groin, groom, irons, minor, mongo, monos, moons, moors, morns, moron, noirs, nomoi, nomos, noris, norms, ornis, rings, rooms, rosin, sorgo. | |
-4 letters: gins, girn, giro, goon, goos. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-i-m-n-o-o-r-s" | |
+1 letter: monsignor, motorings. | |
+2 letters: agronomies, agronomist, ergonomics, ergonomist, monsignori, monsignors, motorising. | |
+3 letters: agronomists, ergonomists, gastronomic, goniometers, ironmongers, miscoloring, monogastric, mushrooming, nonorgasmic, oversmoking, postforming, recomposing, resmoothing, shortcoming, sporogonium. | |
+4 letters: compromising, gastronomies, gastronomist, goniometries, gossipmonger, homogenizers, monsignorial, moonlighters, nomographies, numerologies, numerologist, outpromising, risorgimento, shortcomings, trimetrogons. | |
+5 letters: angiospermous, compurgations, criminologies, criminologist, discomforting, fashionmonger, gastronomical, gastronomists, gossipmongers, graminivorous, ironmongeries, mastigophoran, microorganism, morphogenesis, motorboatings, numerologists, overconsuming, overpromising, primogenitors, promulgations, risorgimentos, spermatogonia, terminologies, zoosporangium. | |
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