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Mooring vs Towing - What's the difference?

mooring | towing |

As verbs the difference between mooring and towing

is that mooring is while towing is .

As a noun mooring

is a place to moor a vessel.

mooring

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  • Noun

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  • 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.
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