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Definition: Anchor |
AnchorNoun1. A mechanical device that prevents a vessel from moving. 2. A central cohesive source of support and stability: "faith is his anchor"; "he is the linchpin of this firm". 3. A television reporter who coordinates a broadcast to which several correspondents contribute. Verb1. Fix firmly and stably; "anchor the lamppost in concrete". 2. Secure a vessel with an anchor; "We anchored at Baltimore". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "anchor" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
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Metallurgy | Used for mooring ships of all tonnages, buoys, beacons, floating mines, etc. Source: European Union. (references) |
Bible | Anchor From Acts 27:29, 30, 40, it would appear that the Roman vessels carried several anchors, which were attached to the stern as well as to the prow. The Roman anchor, like the modern one, had two teeth or flukes. In Heb. 6:19 the word is used metaphorically for that which supports or keeps one steadfast in the time of trial or of doubt. It is an emblem of hope. "If you fear, Put all your trust in God: that anchor holds." Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of an anchor is favorable to sailors, if seas are calm. To others it portends separation from friends, change of residence, and foreign travel. Sweethearts are soon to quarrel if either sees an anchor. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Food & Agriculture | To lower the anchor on to the sea bottom so as to secure the vessel in an approximately constant position relative to the seabed. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A heavy forging or casting comprising a shank with large shackle or ring at one end and generally two arms with palms at the other, so shaped as to grip the sea bottom, and by means of a cable or rope hold a vessel, boat, or any other floating structure in a desired position regardless of wind and current. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| On a tractor, a stout metal arm at the rear of the chassis, which can be swung down into the ground to act as a strut to steady the tractor when winching. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Literature | Anchor That was my sheet anchor - i.e. my best hope, my last refuge. The sheet anchor is the largest anchor of a ship, which, in stress of weather, is the sailor's chief dependence. The word sheet is a corruption of the word shote (thrown out), meaning the anchor "thrown out" in foul weather. The Greeks and Romans said, "my sacred anchor," because the sheet anchor was always dedicated to some god. Anchor (The) in Christian art, is given to Clement of Rome and Nicolas of Bari. Pope Clement, in A.D. 80, was bound to an anchor and cast into the sea. Nicolas of Bari is the patron saint of sailors. The anchor is apeak - that is, the cable of the anchor is so tight that the ship is drawn completely over it. (See Bower Anchor, Sheet Anchor.) The Anchor comes home, the anchor has been dragged from its hold. Figuratively, the enterprise has failed, notwithstanding the precautions employed. To weigh anchor, to haul in the anchor, that the ship may sail away from its mooring. Figuratively, to begin an enterprise which has hung on hand. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Mechanical Engineering | Refractory or metallic pieces fixed to the casing, and designed to ensure the stability of the refractory lining. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A bar, usually of steel, which is inserted into pre-drilled holes in rock and secured for the purpose of ground control. Source: European Union. (references) |
Slang | Noun. Source: . Definition: Your child, or children that keep(s) you from riding. Context: To be used as an endearing, not demeaning, phrase . Social Source: Mountain bikers. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) |
Slang in 1811 | ANCHOR. Bring your a-se to an anchor, i.e. sit down. To let go an anchor to the windward of the law; to keep within the letter of the law. SEA WIT. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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Ship's anchorAnchor (from the Greek agkura, which Vossius considers is from ogke, a crook or hook), an instrument of iron or other heavy material used for holding ships or boats in any locality required, and preventing them from drifting by winds, tides, currents or other causes. This is done by the anchor, after it is let go from the ship by means of the cable, fixing itself in the ground and there holding the vessel fast.
The word "anchor" is also used figuratively for anything which gives security, or for any ornament or appendage which takes the same form. Owing to a vessel's safety depending upon the anchor, it is obviously an appliance of great importance, and too much care cannot be expended on its manufacture and proper construction. The most ancient anchors consisted of large stones, baskets full of stones, sacks filled with sand, or logs of wood loaded with lead. Of this kind were the anchors of the ancient Greeks, which, according to Apollonius Rhodius and Stephen of Byzantium, were formed of stone; and Athenaeus states that they were sometimes made of wood. Such anchors held the vessel merely by their weight and by the friction along the bottom. Iron was afterwards introduced for the construction of anchors, and an improvement was made by forming them with teeth or ``flukes'' to fasten themselves into the bottom; whence the words odontes and dentes are frequently taken for anchors in the Greek and Latin poets. The invention of the teeth is ascribed by Pliny to the Tuscans; but Pausanias gives the credit to Midas, king of Phrygia. Originally there was only one fluke or tooth, whence anchors were called eterostomoi; but a second was added, according to Pliny, by Eupalamus, or, according to Strabo, by Anacharsis, the Scythian philosopher. The anchors with two teeth were called amfiboloi or amfistomoi, and from ancient monuments appear to have resembled generally those used in modern days, except that the stock is absent from them all. Every ship had several anchors; the largest, corresponding to our sheet anchor, was only used in extreme danger, and was hence peculiarly termed iera or sacra, whence the proverb sacram anchoram solvere, as flying to the last refuge.
Porters/Trotmans anchorUntil the beginning of the 19th century anchors were of imperfect manufacture, the means of effecting good and efficient welding being absent and the iron poor, whilst the arms, being straight, generally parted at the crown, when weighing from good holding-ground. A clerk in Plymouth Yard, named Pering, in the early part of that century (1813) introduced curved arms; and after 1852 the Admiralty anchor, under the direction of the Board, was supplied to H.M. ships, followed by Lieutenant (afterwards Captain) Rodger's anchor. This marked a great departure from the form of previous anchors. The arms were formed in one piece, and were pivoted at the crown on a bolt passing through the forked shank. The points or pees to the palms were blunt. This anchor had an excellent reputation amongst nautical men of that period, and by the committee on anchors, appointed by the admiralty in 1852, it was placed second only to the anchor of Trotman. Later came the self-canting anchor, which, passing through successive improvements, became the improved Martin anchor made of forged iron. A projection in the centre of the arms works in a recess at the hub of the shank: the vacancies outside the shank are filled by blocks bolted through on each side, and are flush with the side plates, which keep the flukes in position.
The introduction of cast steel in 1894 led to the improved Martin-Adelphi pattern, in which the crown and arms are cast in one, and, with the stock, are made of cast steel, the shank remaining of forged iron. A projection in the crown works in a recess, and is secured in its place by a forged steel pin, fitted with a nut and washer, which passes through the crown and the heel of the shank. All the above anchors were provided with a stock, the use of which is to "cant" the anchor. If it falls on the ground, resting on one arm and one stock, when a strain is brought on the cable, the stock cants the anchor, causing the arms to lie at a downward angle to the holding ground; and the pees enter and bury themselves below the surface of the soil.
To stow a stocked anchor on the forecastle, it is hove up close to the forefoot, and by means of a ground chain (secured to a balancing or gravity band on the anchor), which is joined to a catting chain rove through a cat davit, the anchor is hove up horizontally and placed on its bed, where it is secured by chains passing over a rod fitted with a lever for "letting go." The cat davit is hinged at its base, and can be laid flat on the deck for right ahead fire or when at sea. Ground and catting chains have been superseded in some ships by a wire pendant and cat hook; the anchor is then hove close up to the hawse-pipe. To avoid cutting away a portion of the forecastle, in the "Cressy," "Terrible" and "Diadem" classes of the British navy, the anchors, secured by chains, are stowed a-cock-bill, outside the ship, with their crowns resting on iron shoes secured to the ship's side and the flukes fore and aft. A difficulty is experienced in stowing the anchors when the ship is pitching or rolling heavily. Fig. 4 illustrates an anchor with cat davit or anchor crane used in the P. and O. Company's steamers ("India" class, 8000 tons); for sea the anchor is stowed on board by the anchor crane.
Stockless anchors have been extensively used in the British mercantile marine and in some foreign navies. In 1903 they were adopted generally for the British navy, after extensive anchor trials, begun in 1885. Their advantages are:--handiness combined with a saving of time and labour; absence of davits, anchor-beds and other gear, with a resulting reduction in weight; and a clear forecastle for "right ahead" gun fire or for working ship. On the other hand a larger hawse-pipe is required, and there appears to be a consensus of opinion that a stockless anchor when "let go" does not hold so quickly as a stocked one, is more uncertain in its action over uneven ground, and is more liable to "come home" (drag). The stockless anchors principally in use in the British navy are Hall's improved, Byer's, and Wasteneys Smith's. In Hall's improved the arms and crown of cast steel are in one piece, and the shank of forged steel passes up through an aperture in the crown to which it is secured by two cross bolts. Two trunnions or lugs are forged to the lower end of the shank. In Byer's plan the flukes and crown consist of a steel-casting secured to a forged shank by a through bolt of mild steel, the axis of which is parallel to the points of the flukes; one end of the bolt has a head, but the other is screwed and fitted with a phosphor bronze nut to allow the bolt to be withdrawn for examination. A palm is cast on each side of the crown to trip the flukes when the anchor is on the ground, and for bringing them snug against the ship's side when weighing. Wasteneys Smith's anchor is composed of three main parts, the shank and crown which form one forging, and the two flukes or arms which are separate castings. A bolt passes through the crown of the anchor, connecting the flukes to it; to prevent the flukes working off the connecting through bolt, two smaller bolts pass through the flukes at right angles to the through bolt and are recessed half their diameter into it.
(16,350 tons) with lower and sheet (spare) anchors stowed. To let go a stockless anchor the cable or capstan holder C is unscrewed, and in practice it is found desirable to knock off the bottle screw-slip A, allowing the weight of the anchor to be taken by the inner slip A' (Blake's stopper). Stern, stream and kedge anchors are usually stowed with special davits. A portable anchor suitable for small yachts is the invention of Mr Louis Moore; the shank passes through the crown of the anchor like the handle of a pickaxe and the stock over the head of the shank. At the end of the stock are loose pawls. There are no keys or bolts, and the only fastening is for the cable. The anchor takes to pieces readily and stows snugly. In 1890 Colonel Bucknill also invented a portable anchor for small yachts.
Marine anchorIron buoy-sinkers, as used by the London Trinity House Corporation, weigh from 8 to 40 cwt.; the specified weight is cast on them in large raised figures, and the cast and wrought irons used are of special quality, of which samples are previously submitted to the engineer-in-chief.
The anchors supplied to ships of the British navy are reqaired to withstand a certain tensile strain, expressed in tons, proportionate to their weights in cwts. New anchors are supplied by contractors, but repairs are made in H.M. dockyards, a record of its repairs being stamped on each anchor. In the Anchors and Cables Act 1899 a list is given of authorized testing-establishments, with their distinctive marks and charges, and testing- houses for foreign-owned vessels are
enumerated in Table 22 of Lloyd's Register of British and Foreign Shipping. Cast-steel anchors, in addition to the statutory tests, are subjected to percussive, hammering and bending tests, and are stamped "annealed steel."
Original text from 1911 encyclopedia
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Anchor is a village located in McLean County, Illinois. As of the 2000 census, the village had a total population of 175.Geography
Anchor is located at 40°34'3" North, 88°32'20" West (40.567617, -88.538784)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 0.5 km² (0.2 mi²). 0.5 km² (0.2 mi²) of it is land and none of it is covered by water.Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there are 175 people, 65 households, and 47 families residing in the village. The population density is 355.6/km² (904.5/mi²). There are 68 housing units at an average density of 138.2/km² (351.5/mi²). The racial makeup of the village is 97.14% White, 0.00% African American, 0.57% Native American, 0.00% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.00% from other races, and 2.29% from two or more races. 0.00% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 65 households out of which 33.8% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 67.7% are married couples living together, 4.6% have a female householder with no husband present, and 26.2% are non-families. 23.1% of all households are made up of individuals and 16.9% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.69 and the average family size is 3.17. In the village the population is spread out with 32.0% under the age of 18, 3.4% from 18 to 24, 26.3% from 25 to 44, 16.0% from 45 to 64, and 22.3% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 39 years. For every 100 females there are 88.2 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 83.1 males. The median income for a household in the village is $50,250, and the median income for a family is $52,813. Males have a median income of $36,607 versus $28,750 for females. The per capita income for the village is $17,642. 1.9% of the population and 0.0% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 0.0% are under the age of 18 and 0.0% are 65 or older.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Anchor, Illinois."
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A News Anchor (US) or Newsreader (UK) is a person that works in television or radio that hosts a regular news program or provides occasional on air news updates.News anchors generally read prepared scripts, but in emergencies, they often have to ad-lib commentary on the air. Many news anchors are also involved in writing and/or editing the news for their programs. Sometimes news anchors interview guests and moderate panels or discussions. Some provide commentary for the audience during parades and other events.
American news anchors are frequently imitated and lampooned, including being the subject of long running gags on Saturday Night Live and the subject of sitcoms like The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Murphy Brown and NewsRadio.
Notable American News Anchors
- Tom Brokaw, NBC News
- Connie Chung, CNN
- Walter Cronkite CBS News
- Sam Donaldson, ABC News
- Laurie Dhue, FOX News
- Brit Hume, FOX News
- Peter Jennings, ABC News
- Ted Koppel, ABC News, Nightline
- Jim Lehrer. PBS (Public Broadcasting System)
- Jane Pauley, NBC News
- Dan Rather, CBS News
- Tim Russert, NBC News
- Diane Sawyer, ABC News
- Maria Shriver, NBC News
- Brian Williams, CNBC
- Paula Zahn, CNN
- Aaron Brown, CNN
Notable British Newsreaders
Note: "ABC" can stand for American Broadcasting Company as well as the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
- Michael Buerke BBC
- Anna Ford BBC
- Trevor McDonald ITN
- Angela Rippon, BBC (First Woman newsreader on British television, now retired)
- Moira Stewart, BBC
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Synonyms: AnchorSynonyms: anchorman (n), anchorperson (n), backbone (n), ground tackle (n), linchpin (n), lynchpin (n), mainstay (n), cast anchor (v), drop anchor (v), ground (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Arrival | Light, alight, dismount; land, go ashore; debark, disembark; put in, put into; visit, cast anchor, pitch one's tent; sit down; (be located); get to one's journey's end; make the land; be in at the death; come back, get back, come home, get home; return; come in; (ingress); make one's appearance; (appear); drop in; detrain, deplane; outspan; de-orbit. |
Connection | Pin, corking pin, nail, brad, tack, skewer, staple, corrugated fastener; clamp, U-clamp, C-clamp; cramp, cramp iron; ratchet, detent, larigo, pawl; terret, treenail, screw, button, buckle; clasp, hasp, hinge, hank, catch, latch, bolt, latchet, tag; tooth; hook, hook and eye; lock, holdfast, padlock, rivet; anchor, grappling iron, trennel, stake, post. |
Departure | Leave a place, quit, vacate, evacuate, abandon; go off the stage, make one's exit; retire, withdraw, remove; vamoose, vamose; go one's way, go along, go from home; take flight, take wing; spring, fly, flit, wing one's flight; fly away, whip away; embark; go on board, go aboard; set sail' put to sea, go to sea; sail, take ship; hoist blue Peter; get under way, weigh anchor; strike tents, decamp; walk one's chalks, cut one's stick; take leave; say good bye, bid goodbye; Noun: disappear; abscond; (avoid); entrain; inspan. |
Hope | Anchor, sheet anchor, mainstay; staff; (support); heaven. |
Location | Moored; Verb: at anchor. |
Inhabit; (be present); domesticate, colonize; take root, strike root; anchor; cast anchor, come to an anchor; sit down, settle down; settle; take up one's abode, take up one's quarters; plant oneself, establish oneself, locate oneself; squat, perch, hive, se nicher, bivouac, burrow, get a footing; encamp, pitch one's tent; put up at, put up one's horses at; keep house. | |
Means | Noun: means, resources, wherewithal, ways and means; capital; (money); revenue; stock in trade; provision; a shot in the locker; appliances; (machinery); means and appliances; conveniences; cards to play; expedients; (measures); two strings to one's bow; sheet anchor; (safety); aid; medium. |
Quiescence | Remain, stay; stand, lie to, ride at anchor, remain in situ, tarry, mark time; bring to, heave to, lay to; pull up, draw up; hold, halt; stop, stop short; rest, pause, anchor; cast to an anchor, come to an anchor; rest on one's oars; repose on one's laurels, take breath; stop; (discontinue). |
Adjective: quiescent, still; motionless, moveless; fixed; stationary; immotile; at rest at a stand, at a standstill, at anchor; stock, still; standing still; Verb: sedentary, untraveled, stay-at-home; becalmed, stagnant, quiet; unmoved, undisturbed, unruffled; calm, restful; cataleptic; immovable; (stable); sleeping; (inactive); silent; still as a statue, still as a post, still as a mouse, still as death; vegetative, vegetating. | |
Rashness | Carry too much sail, sail too near the wind, ride at single anchor, go out of one's depth. |
Refuge | Anchor, kedge; grapnel, grappling iron; sheet anchor, killick; mainstay; support; cheek; ballast. |
Safety | Adjective: safe, secure, sure; in safety, in security; on the safe side; under the shield of, under the shade of, under the wing of, under the shadow of one's wing; under cover, under lock and key; out of danger, out of the woods, out of the meshes, out of harm's way; unharmed, unscathed; on sure ground, at anchor, high and dry, above water; unthreatened, unmolested; protected; Verb: cavendo tutus; panoplied; (defended). |
Refuge; anchor; precaution; (preparation); quarantine, cordon sanitaire. confidence. | |
Stability | Tethered, anchored, moored, at anchor, on a rock, rock solid, firm as a rock; firmly seated, firmly established; Verb: deep-rooted, ineradicable; inveterate; obstinate. |
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Screenplays | It's an anchor that drowns a man. Besides, I got the sky, the smell of jet exhaust, my bike (Hot Shots!; writing credit: Jim Abrahams; Pat Proft) If Peter Pan were here, I'd set anchor in his heart (Peter Pan and the Pirates; writing credit: Gregory Bernstein; Sara Bernstein) Maybe the past is like an anchor holding us back (Sex and the City; writing credit: Mark Leiren-Young) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Throw Out the Anchor (1974) The Windward Anchor (1916) | |
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 | Water Hyacinth in a Louisiana pond can act as a breeding ground for Anopheles quadrimaculatus, Mansonia and Culex mosquitoes, which anchor onto the plants, and are protected from waves. Credit: CDC. |  | Friends of the sailor helping make a glorious day better Dolphin playing in the bow wave of the NOAA Ship PEIRCE Ship anchor fluke in lower left of photo. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | View of Cuyler's Harbor with ACTIVE at anchor Sketch by William B. McMurtrie accompanying Survey H-309. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Fanciful view of Drake's Bay with the Drake's vessel, the GOLDEN HIND, at anchor Drake sailed on the California coast in 1577. In: "The Annals of San Francisco". Frank Soule, John Gihon, and James Nesbit. 1855. Frontispiece. D. Appleton & Company, New York. F869.S3.S7 1855. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | The North side of Baltimore Harbor as seen from a boat at anchor. Accompanied as loose photos in the "Monthly Journal of the Engineers' Club of Baltimore" for February 1914. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Deploying the trainwheel anchor and acoustic release for a mooring in the Ross Sea. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | Survey launch at anchor with dinghy returning from shore. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | A double rigged shrimp trawler with nets and otterboards hanging outboard. Vessel is at anchor. Credit: Fisheries. |
 | Sapelo Island National Estuarine Research Reserve. Dune plants like sea oats and railroad vine help to anchor dune systems. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |  | Remains of an anchor at Cape Alava. Credit: Sanctuaries. |
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| "Anchor on rock" by Marko Domagoj Zic Commentary: "Anchor on rock..." | "Blue Anchor Sunset" by Sam Segar Commentary: "This was taken with an Olympus OM10 in about 1983. ." |
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Epictetus | A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope. |
| Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope. | |
Frederick Douglass | I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ark of his safety. |
Lord Alfred Tennyson | Cast your cares on God; that anchor holds. |
Oliver Wendell Holmes | To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor. |
Thomas Babington Macaulay | Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He swam under water to a ship at anchor to which a boat was fastened |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | We cast anchor within a league of the town, and made a signal for a pilot |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | He used to make a cable for his anchor of strips of hickory bark tied together |
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Health | Alterations in surgical technique, particularly in methods used to anchor the device, have contributed to a decrease in device migration or extrusion. (references) | |
The part of the epithelium that serves as the foundation on which the epithelial cells anchor and organize themselves is called the basement membrane. (references) | ||
The "dystrophin-glycoprotein complex" helps anchor the contents of muscle cells through the cells' outer enclosing membrane to the material in which muscle cells are embedded. (references) | ||
Business | Consequently, the SDI's have a strong sectoral focus, which tends to be linked to major anchor projects, providing the stimulus to kick-start several related investments. (references) | |
This tourism anchor project is expected to generate significant tourism and tourism-related activities in the St. Lucia region in the KwaZulu-Natal Province in South Africa. (references) | ||
The MOZAL Sonata and the Motraco transmission anchor the Maputo development corridor, and MOZAL is expected to generate export earnings of $400 million a year for Mozambique and the Southern Africa region. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | El Salvador | In January a prominent television news anchor, Mauricio Funes, alleged that President Flores had pressed for his dismissal in reprisal for his criticism of the Government; however, Funes retained his job. (references) |
Economic History | Venezuela | The BCV has used the exchange rate as an anchor against inflation since 1996, when prices rose by 103 percent. (references) |
Poland | The Poles have forged special relationships with Lithuania and particularly Ukraine in an effort to firmly anchor these states to the West. (references) | |
Trade | Malaysia | Total banking system assets were U.S.$179.1 billion in December 2000. Bank Negara mandated the merger of Malaysia's financial institutions into ten anchor banks. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | EXILE, n. One who serves his country by residing abroad, yet is not an ambassador. An English sea-captain being asked if he had read "The Exile of Erin," replied: "No, sir, but I should like to anchor on it." Years afterwards, when he had been hanged as a pirate after a career of unparalleled atrocities, the following memorandum was found in the ship's log that he had kept at the time of his reply: Aug. 3d, 1842. Made a joke on the ex-Isle of Erin. Coldly received. War with the whole world! |
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Dan Rather | Well, I'm not sure you can't be. You couldn't be at CBS News. The culture at CBS News wouldn't allow such a person to come to the anchor chair. |
Dennis Miller | Also I don't trust anything said by a news anchor who doesn't have a believable hairpiece. |
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George Bush | 1989-1993 | The anchor in our world today is freedom. |
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| "Anchor" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 84.32% of the time. "Anchor" is used about 541 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 84.32% | 457 | 12,810 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 12.55% | 68 | 40,606 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 2.03% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.11% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 541 | N/A |
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| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Malaysia | Guinness Anchor Berhad | USA | Anchor Bancorp Wisconsin Inc. |
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1. Anchor, IL (village, FIPS 1361) |
Expressions using "anchor": anchor arm ♦ anchor astray ♦ anchor awash ♦ anchor bed ♦ anchor bill ♦ anchor block ♦ anchor bolt ♦ anchor braced load ♦ anchor bracket ♦ Anchor buoy ♦ anchor cable ♦ anchor capstan ♦ anchor chain ♦ anchor davit ♦ Anchor escapement ♦ anchor fluke ♦ anchor gear ♦ Anchor ice ♦ anchor in the roads ♦ Anchor light ♦ anchor line extension kit ♦ anchor log ♦ anchor man ♦ anchor palm ♦ anchor Point ♦ anchor ring ♦ anchor shackle ♦ Anchor shot ♦ Anchor space ♦ Anchor stock ♦ anchor strap ♦ anchor wall ♦ anchor watch ♦ anchor wind lass ♦ anchor windlass ♦ apeak anchor ♦ articulated anchor ♦ at anchor ♦ be at anchor ♦ be the anchor of one's hopes ♦ boat anchor ♦ bower anchor ♦ cable anchor ♦ cast anchor ♦ come to anchor ♦ Danforth anchor ♦ dead anchor block ♦ dihedral anchor ♦ drag anchor ♦ drag the anchor ♦ Drift anchor ♦ drop anchor ♦ edges of a solid anchor ♦ Egg and anchor ♦ equal anchor ♦ external anchor ♦ fish the anchor ♦ floating anchor ♦ Flood anchor ♦ Foul anchor ♦ grapnel anchor ♦ griding anchor ♦ guy anchor ♦ heave up anchor ♦ hoist anchor ♦ ice anchor ♦ kedge anchor ♦ let go anchor ♦ lie at anchor ♦ main anchor ♦ Meon anchor ♦ mooring anchor ♦ mushroom anchor ♦ peak of anchor ♦ port anchor ♦ raise anchor ♦ ride at anchor ♦ ride at single anchor ♦ sea anchor ♦ shank of anchor ♦ sheet anchor ♦ shoe of an anchor ♦ spare anchor ♦ star anchor ♦ stem anchor ♦ stockless anchor ♦ stopper of anchor ♦ storm anchor ♦ stream anchor ♦ take up the anchor ♦ The anchor comes home ♦ The anchor is acockbill ♦ The anchor is apeak ♦ The anchor is atrip ♦ The anchor is awash ♦ To back an anchor ♦ To cast anchor ♦ To cat the anchor ♦ To cockbill the anchor ♦ To drag an anchor ♦ To fish the anchor. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "anchor": anchor-chain, anchor-chains, anchor-decorated, anchor-duty, anchor-handling, Anchor-hold, anchor-leg, anchor-like, anchor-man, anchor-men, anchor-point, anchor-stone, Anchor-worm. | |
Ending with "anchor": drag-anchor, egg-and-anchor, sea-anchor, sheet-anchor, solo-anchor, water-anchor. | |
| 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
anchor | 879 | anchor away | 47 |
anchor blue | 527 | anchor tattoo | 47 |
anchor bank | 321 | anchor picture | 46 |
anchor hocking | 303 | anchor point ak | 44 |
boat anchor | 232 | anchor block | 43 |
anchor bay | 122 | anchor bar | 41 |
anchor aweigh | 94 | anchor windlass | 37 |
news anchor | 88 | anchor twin | 36 |
anchor bolt | 88 | ground anchor | 35 |
anchor inn | 84 | wall anchor | 35 |
anchor realty | 82 | anchor hold | 35 |
concrete anchor | 80 | sea anchor | 34 |
eagle globe and anchor | 73 | anchor glass | 34 |
marine anchor | 72 | anchor industry | 33 |
anchor cnn | 62 | html anchor | 33 |
anchor from headline live | 62 | crown anchor | 32 |
anchor chain | 60 | ship anchor | 32 |
anchor broadcast community daily e jennings jennnings join journal mail media news news newscast peter producer selection story subscribe tonight unsubscribe world | 55 | anchor releasing | 28 |
anchor bay entertainment | 53 | anchor line | 27 |
anchor audio | 49 | anchor mortgage | 27 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "anchor"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | anker. (various references) | |
Albanian | ankoroj (berth), ankorohem (come to), spirancë (grapnel, grappling iron, mooring, moorings), hedh spirancën. (various references) | |
Arabic | ملاذ (anchorage, asylum, harbor, harbour, haven, hermitage, hideaway, recourse, refuge, resort, retreat, sanctuary, shelter), مرساة (bower, grapnel, mooring), لاذ (repair, shelter), المرتكز, إرتكز, ثبت (affirm, assure, aver, belay, belt, bend, bite, bolt, bolt on, brace, cable, catch, chock, confirm, corroborate, countersign, demonstrate, display, endure, establish, evince, fastening, fix, lash, last, pin down, plant, prove, reinforce, secure, set, spike, stabilize, stay, steady, stick, strengthen, substantiate, testify, validate, verify, warrant), رسا. (various references) | |
Basque | aingura. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | стоманена връзка, упование (dependence, expectance, expectancy, prop, reliance, reposal, trust), хвърлям котва (lie to), котва (armature, keeper, pallet, tongue), опора (abut, anchorage, backlog, bearer, bulwark, buttress, column, cradle, crutch, dependence, faith, foothold, holder, jamb, lodgement, lodgment, mainstay, palladium, pillar, prop, purchase, rampart, rest, rock, roothold, sinews, staff, stand by, stay, stock, stronghold, support, tower, underpinning), закотвям (moor), анкър (holdfast). (various references) | |
Chinese | 錨 (rising of clouds), 船锚, 碇 , 椗 . (various references) | |
Czech | zakotvit (berth, embed), upevnit (confine, consolidate, fasten, fix, forge, infix, make up, moor, picket, plant, plant in, rivet, secure, ship, solidify, Spike, steady, strengthen), opora (backbone, bulwark, buttress, foothold, footing, footling, pillar, prop, staff), kotva. (various references) | |
Danish | anker (anchor block, anchor wall, anchorage, barrel, clamp, clasp, dead man, guy anchor, keeper, keg, tie rod, tie-bar, tie-rod). (various references) | |
Dutch | anker (anker, armature, brace, cramp-iron), ankeren (drop anchor). (various references) | |
Esperanto | ankro. (various references) | |
Faeroese | akker. (various references) | |
Farsi | محکم شدن , لنگرکشتی , لنگرانداختن (Harbor, Moor), بالنگربستن یانگاه داشتن ، لنگر. (various references) | |
Finnish | ankkuri (barrel, kilderkin, tierce), ankkuroida. (various references) | |
French | ancre (anchors), mouiller, fixer, ancrer. (various references) | |
German | Anker (armature, grapnel, guy), verankern (embed, establish, fix, ground, guy, tie down), ankern (be anchored, lie to). (various references) | |
Greek | άγκυρα (Ankara), αγκυροβολώ (drop anchor, let go anchor, to anchor, to cast anchor, to drop anchor, to let go anchor). (various references) | |
Hebrew | משען (abutment, brace, buttress, prop, rest, staff, stay, support), לעגן (prattler), לעגון (cast anchor, dock, moor), עוגן (guy, stay). (various references) | |
Hungarian | vasmacska, horgony (grab, grapnel, grapple, grappling iron, grappling-iron). (various references) | |
Icelandic | akkeri. (various references) | |
Indonesian | anjar, sauh, jangkar. (various references) | |
Irish | ancaire. (various references) | |
Italian | ancora (afresh, again, all over again, anew, more, once, once more, still, yet), ancorare (berth, guy), àncora (armature, guy). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 錨 , 碇泊 (mooring), しらを切る (annoying persistence, be tired, bothersome, croaker, heart-to-heart, intestine, sad, serious, solemn, sound of heavy snow-fall, tiresome, to be deadly silent, to be silent, to brazen it out, to feign ignorance, to play innocent, to pretend to be ignorant of, worrisome), アレカ椰子 (alexandrite, allegory, allegretto, allegro, allergen, allergy, alloc, allocate, allocation, aloe, aloha, aloha shirt, Anchorage, anchorman, ankh, anklet, areca palm, arrange, arrangement, arranger, arrow, hour, underground, underground money). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | しんがり , いかり (anger, hatred), アンカー , ていはく (anchorage, mooring, moorings). (various references) | |
