Marina vs. Harbor
Marina and Harbor Definitions
Marina
A waterside facility that has docks, moorings, supplies, and other facilities for small boats.
Harbor
A sheltered part of a body of water deep enough to provide anchorage for ships.
Marina
A harbour for small boats.
It's a peaceful marina with not too many boats and yachts.
Harbor
A place of shelter; a refuge.
Marina
A fancy dock for small yachts and cabin cruisers
Harbor
To give shelter to
Harbor refugees.
Harbor a fugitive.
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Harbor
To provide a place, home, or habitat for
A basement that harbors a maze of pipes.
Streams that harbor trout and bass.
Harbor
To entertain or nourish (a specified thought or feeling)
Harbor a grudge.
Harbor
(countable) Any place of shelter.
The neighborhood is a well-known harbor for petty thieves.
Harbor
A sheltered expanse of water, adjacent to land, in which ships may anchor or dock, especially for loading and unloading.
A harbor, even if it is a little harbor, is a good thing, since adventurers come into it as well as go out, and the life in it grows strong, because it takes something from the world, and has something to give in return - Sarah Orne Jewett
Harbor
A mixing box for materials.
Harbor
A house of the zodiac, or the mansion of a heavenly body.
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Harbor
Shelter, refuge.
Harbor
(transitive) To provide a harbor or safe place for.
The docks, which once harbored tall ships, now harbor only petty thieves.
Harbor
(intransitive) To take refuge or shelter in a protected expanse of water.
The fleet harbored in the south.
Harbor
(transitive) To drive (a hunted stag) to covert.
Harbor
(transitive) To hold or persistently entertain in one's thoughts or mind.
She harbors a conviction that her husband has a secret, criminal past.
Harbor
A station for rest and entertainment; a place of security and comfort; a refuge; a shelter.
[A grove] fair harbour that them seems.
For harbor at a thousand doors they knocked.
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Harbor
Specif.: A lodging place; an inn.
Harbor
The mansion of a heavenly body.
Harbor
A portion of a sea, a lake, or other large body of water, either landlocked or artificially protected so as to be a place of safety for vessels in stormy weather; a port or haven.
Harbor
A mixing box for materials.
Harbor
To afford lodging to; to entertain as a guest; to shelter; to receive; to give a refuge to; to indulge or cherish (a thought or feeling, esp. an ill thought); as, to harbor a grudge.
Any place that harbors men.
The bare suspicion made it treason to harbor the person suspected.
Let not your gentle breast harbor one thought of outrage.
Harbor
To lodge, or abide for a time; to take shelter, as in a harbor.
For this night let's harbor here in York.
Harbor
A sheltered port where ships can take on or discharge cargo
Harbor
A place of refuge and comfort and security
Harbor
Maintain (a theory, thoughts, or feelings);
Bear a grudge
Entertain interesting notions
Harbor a resentment
Harbor
Secretly shelter (as of fugitives or criminals)
Harbor
Keep in one's possession; of animals
Harbor
Hold back a thought or feeling about;
She is harboring a grudge against him
