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| Domain | Definition |
Building & Civil Engineering | A buried plate, wall or block, some distance from a sheet pile or other retaining wall, which serves to anchor back the wall through a tie between the two. The dead man is held in place by its own weight and by passive pressure from the soil. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Expression using "ANCHOR BLOCK": dead anchor block. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
anchor block | 43 |
anchor block company | 6 |
anchor block retaining wall | 5 |
anchor block wall | 2 |
anchor block concrete | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "ANCHOR BLOCK"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Danish | ankerblok (deadman, dead-man, fixed mooring), anker (anchor), fortoejningsboeje (deadman, dead-man, fixed mooring), forankringsblok (deadman, dead-man, fixed mooring), forankring (anchor strap, anchor wall, anchorage, anchorage(for sheetpiling), buckstave, dead man, precision attachment, stay, tie rod), fast fortoejning med boeje (deadman, dead-man, fixed mooring). (various references) | ||||||||||
Dutch | ankerblok (deadman, dead-man, fixed mooring), anker (anchor, anker, armature, brace, cramp-iron), verankering (anchor, anchor strap, anchor wall, anchorage, anchorage(for sheetpiling), anchoring, dead man, mooring, pinning, shoe, spud), trekanker (anchor wall, anchorage, dead man), meerpaal (bollard, deadman, dead-man, fixed mooring, mooring post), meerkist (deadman, dead-man, fixed mooring). (various references) | ||||||||||
French | ancrage (anchorage), tirant (anchor wall, anchorage), corps mort. (various references) | ||||||||||
German | Ankertafel (anchor wall, anchorage, dead man), Ankerstein (deadman, dead-man, fixed mooring), Ankerplatte (anchor wall, anchorage, dead man), Ankerklotz (deadman, dead-man, fixed mooring), Ankerkörper (anchor wall, anchorage, dead man), Ankerblock (deadman, dead-man, fixed mooring), Vertaeuung (deadman, dead-man, fixed mooring, moorage, mooring), Vertaeuer (deadman, dead-man, fixed mooring), Vertaeueinrichtung (deadman, dead-man, fixed mooring), Verankerung (anchorage, anchoring, bracing, Embedding, establishment, fixing, moorings), Kettenanker (deadman, dead-man, fixed mooring), fixe Vertaeuung (deadman, dead-man, fixed mooring). (various references) | ||||||||||
Greek | νεκρό σώμα (corpse). (various references) | ||||||||||
Italian | ancoraggio (anchorage, berth, harborage, harbourage), tirante (tie beam), corpo morto (deadman, dead-man, fixed mooring). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | anchoray ockblay anclaje (anchorage), tirante (binder, brace, bridle, gunning, nail biting, shoulder strap, straining, strap, stringent, taut, tense, tie, tight, tighten, trace), cuerpo muerto (cadaver). (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-c-h-k-l-n-o-o-r" | |
-3 letters: cabochon, charlock, coanchor, coronach. | |
-4 letters: broncho, conchal, corncob, coronal, oarlock, raccoon. | |
-5 letters: anchor, archon, blanch, branch, broach, bronco, brooch, carbon, caroch, choral, concha, corban, corona, cranch, lochan, racoon, rancho, robalo. | |
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