anchor
IPA: ˈæŋkɝ
noun
- (nautical) A tool used to moor a vessel to the bottom of a sea or river to resist movement.
- (nautical) An iron device so shaped as to grip the bottom and hold a vessel at her berth by the chain or rope attached. (FM 55-501).
- (nautical) The combined anchoring gear (anchor, rode, bill/peak and fittings such as bitts, cat, and windlass.)
- (heraldry) Representation of the nautical tool, used as a heraldic charge.
- Any instrument serving a purpose like that of a ship's anchor, such as an arrangement of timber to hold a dam fast; a device to hold the end of a bridge cable etc.; or a device used in metalworking to hold the core of a mould in place.
- (Internet) A marked point in a document that can be the target of a hyperlink.
- (television) An anchorman or anchorwoman.
- (athletics) The final runner in a relay race.
- (archery) A point that is touched by the draw hand or string when the bow is fully drawn and ready to shoot.
- (economics) A superstore or other facility that serves as a focus to bring customers into an area.
- (figurative) That which gives stability or security.
- (architecture) A metal tie holding adjoining parts of a building together.
- (US) A screw anchor.
- (architecture) Carved work, somewhat resembling an anchor or arrowhead; part of the ornaments of certain mouldings. It is seen in the echinus, or egg-and-anchor (called also egg-and-dart, egg-and-tongue) ornament.
- One of the anchor-shaped spicules of certain sponges.
- One of the calcareous spinules of certain holothurians, as in species of Synapta.
- (cartomancy) The thirty-fifth Lenormand card.
- (obsolete) An anchorite or anchoress.
- (slang) The brake of a vehicle.
- (soccer) A defensive player, especially one who counters the opposition's best offensive player.
- (climbing) A device for attaching a climber at the top of a climb, such as a chain or ring or a natural feature.
- A male given name.
- Alternative form of anker [(obsolete) A measure of wine or spirit equal to 10 gallons; a barrel of this capacity.]
verb
- To connect an object, especially a ship or a boat, to a fixed point.
- To cast anchor; to come to anchor.
- To stop; to fix or rest.
- To provide emotional stability for a person in distress.
- To perform as an anchorman or anchorwoman.
- To be stuck; to be unable to move away from a position.
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Examples of "anchor" in Sentences
- Clinton even pointed out what he called the anchor's clever smirk.
- KAHN: Fatima�Renteria says she's never heard the term anchor baby before.
- With the setting "At Top of Structure", the label anchor point will be at the top of the structure.
- It only now occurred to Wallingford that Mary herself might be interested in what she called the anchor chair.
- Attached diagonally to a corner of each rectangle, and weighting it like an anchor, is a softly stepped cast-bronze form suggesting stone or relic, but also swinging pendulum and parasite.
- WF: I won't ever release an album without completing what I call an "anchor song;" a song which encompasses the broad story the overall record is meaning to tell and, without which, the record would not make functional and fluid sense.
- Maybe the term anchor would be better applied to the right-wingers who stay angry all the time and keep us stuck in the squalid port of stagnation and division, rather than allowing us to move out to the bright and sunny wide open sea of progress and care for others.
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