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Definition anchor
Etymology 1
From Middle English anchor, from Old English ancor, ancra, from Latin ancora, from (or cognate with) Ancient Greek ?????? (ánkura). The modern spelling is a sixteenth-century modification to better represent the Latin spelling anchora, a variant of the older Latin spelling ancora.
Noun
anchor (plural anchors)
- (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.
- (figuratively) That which gives stability or security.
- (architecture) A metal tie holding adjoining parts of a building together.
- (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.
Etymology 2
From Middle English anchoren, ankeren, either from the noun or perhaps (via Old French ancrer) from a Medieval Latin verb ancorare, from the same Latin word ancora.
Verb
anchor (third-person singular simple present anchors, present participle anchoring, simple past and past participle anchored)
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