different between mooring vs riprap

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -u???? (without the poor-pour merger)
• Rhymes: -????? (British accents with the poor-pour merger)
• Rhymes: -o???? (North American accents with the poor-pour merger)

Verb

mooring

1. present participle of moor

Noun

mooring (plural moorings)

1. A place to moor a vessel.
2. The act of securing a vessel with a cable or anchor etc.
3. (figuratively) Something to which one adheres, or the means that helps one to maintain a stable position and keep one's identity - moral, intellectual, political, etc.
   • 1890, John George Nicolay and John Hay, Abraham Lincoln: A History

     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, Coates, Florence Earle, song: "Friendship from its Moorings Strays"

     Friendship from its moorings strays,

     Love binds fast together;

     Friendship is for balmy days,

     Love for stormy weather.

Derived terms

• mooring block
• mooring buoy

Related terms

• dock
• wharf

Translations

Anagrams

• rooming

English

Etymology

Apparently a reduplication (with vowel dissimilation) of rap (“blow, stroke”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???p?ap/

Noun

riprap (countable and uncountable, plural ripraps)

1. An underwater bank seen as a danger to shipping.
   • 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin 2006, p. 423:

     They hold on, spray flying, the ceaseless racket of water impacting on rock all but swallowing them, the river pitching dizzily, snags and riprap raking like claws at the bottom of the boat.

2. (chiefly Canada, US) Rocks or other materials used to shore up an embankment, deter or prevent erosion, guide shipping, or serve as a temporary mooring.

Verb

riprap (third-person singular simple present ripraps, present participle riprapping, simple past and past participle riprapped)

1. To form a riprap in or upon.

Cebuano

Etymology

From English riprap.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: rip?rap

Noun

riprap

1. a riprap rocks or other materials used to shore up an embankment, deter or prevent erosion, guide shipping, or serve as a temporary mooring

Verb

riprap

1. to riprap