Mooring vs Towing - What's the difference?
mooring | towing |
A place to moor a vessel
The act of securing a vessel with a cable or anchor etc.
(figuratively) Something to which one adheres to, or the means that help one maintain a stable position and keep one's identity - moral, intellectual, political, etc.
*1890 , John George Nicolay and John Hay,
*:The party of pro-slavery reaction was for the moment in the ascendant; and as by an irresistible impulse, the Supreme Court of the United States was swept from its hitherto impartial judicial moorings into the dangerous seas of polities.
*1898 , "
*:Friendship from its moorings strays,
*:Love binds fast together;
*:Friendship is for balmy days,
*:Love for stormy weather.