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anchor
noun
1 a heavy piece of metal attached by a cable to a ship and put overboard so that the barbs catch in the seabed or riverbed to restrict the ship's movement.
2 anything that acts as a weight to secure something else.
3 anything that gives security or stability.
4 athletics (also anchorman) the last person to run in a relay race.
5 TV , radio (also anchorman) the person in the studio who provides the links with outside broadcast reporters, between commercial breaks, etc.
verb (anchored , anchoring )
1 to fasten (a ship) using an anchor.
2 to fasten anything securely.
3 intr to drop an anchor and become moored by it; to be moored by an anchor.
4 TV , radio to act as an anchor.
[Anglo-Saxon ancor ]
at anchor said of a ship: secured by an anchor.
cast anchor to put an anchor overboard in order to restrict a ship's movement.
ride at anchor said of a ship: to have a restricted amount of movement because its anchor is in use.
weigh anchor to raise a ship's anchor in order to allow it to sail.
noun
1 a heavy piece of metal attached by a cable to a ship and put overboard so that the barbs catch in the seabed or riverbed to restrict the ship's movement.
2 anything that acts as a weight to secure something else.
3 anything that gives security or stability.
4 athletics (also anchorman) the last person to run in a relay race.
5 TV , radio (also anchorman) the person in the studio who provides the links with outside broadcast reporters, between commercial breaks, etc.
verb (anchored , anchoring )
1 to fasten (a ship) using an anchor.
2 to fasten anything securely.
3 intr to drop an anchor and become moored by it; to be moored by an anchor.
4 TV , radio to act as an anchor.
[Anglo-Saxon ancor ]
at anchor said of a ship: secured by an anchor.
cast anchor to put an anchor overboard in order to restrict a ship's movement.
ride at anchor said of a ship: to have a restricted amount of movement because its anchor is in use.
weigh anchor to raise a ship's anchor in order to allow it to sail.
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