anchor

Etymology 1
From, from , , from , from (or cognate with). The modern form is a sixteenth-century modification after the 🇨🇬 spelling.

Noun

 * 1)  A tool used to moor a vessel to the bottom of a sea or river to resist movement.
 * 2)  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).
 * 3)  The combined anchoring gear (anchor, rode, bill/peak and fittings such as bitts, cat, and windlass.)
 * 4)  Representation of the nautical tool, used as a heraldic charge.
 * 5) 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.
 * 6)   A marked point in a document that can be the target of a hyperlink.
 * 7)  An anchorman or anchorwoman.
 * 8)  The final runner in a relay race.
 * 9)  A point that is touched by the draw hand or string when the bow is fully drawn and ready to shoot.
 * 10)  A superstore or other facility that serves as a focus to bring customers into an area.
 * 11)  That which gives stability or security.
 * 12)  A metal tie holding adjoining parts of a building together.
 * 13)  A screw anchor.
 * 14)  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.
 * 15) One of the anchor-shaped spicules of certain sponges.
 * 16) One of the calcareous spinules of certain holothurians, as in species of Synapta.
 * 17)  The thirty-fifth Lenormand card.
 * 18)  An anchorite or anchoress.
 * 19)  The brake of a vehicle.
 * 20) * 2005, urban legend, The Wordsworth Book of Urban Legend, Wordsworth Editions, page 150:
 * [Police:] ‘… when we blow the horn, you do an emergency stop.’ So the foaf did as he was bid and, hearing an almighty horn blast stepped on the anchors. There was a most tremendous crash as the Police car ran into the back of his Austin.
 * 1)  A defensive player, especially one who counters the opposition's best offensive player.
 * 2)  A device for attaching a climber at the top of a climb, such as a chain or ring or a natural feature.
 * 1)  An anchorite or anchoress.
 * 2)  The brake of a vehicle.
 * 3) * 2005, urban legend, The Wordsworth Book of Urban Legend, Wordsworth Editions, page 150:
 * [Police:] ‘… when we blow the horn, you do an emergency stop.’ So the foaf did as he was bid and, hearing an almighty horn blast stepped on the anchors. There was a most tremendous crash as the Police car ran into the back of his Austin.
 * 1)  A defensive player, especially one who counters the opposition's best offensive player.
 * 2)  A device for attaching a climber at the top of a climb, such as a chain or ring or a natural feature.
 * 1)  A defensive player, especially one who counters the opposition's best offensive player.
 * 2)  A device for attaching a climber at the top of a climb, such as a chain or ring or a natural feature.
 * 1)  A device for attaching a climber at the top of a climb, such as a chain or ring or a natural feature.
 * 1)  A device for attaching a climber at the top of a climb, such as a chain or ring or a natural feature.

Usage notes
Formerly a vessel would differentiate amongst the anchors carried as waist anchor, best bower, bower, stream and kedge anchors, depending on purpose and, to a great extent, on mass and size of the anchor. Modern usage is storm anchor for the heaviest anchor with the longest rode, best bower or simply bower for the most commonly used anchor deployed from the, and stream or lunch hook for a small, light anchor used for temporary moorage and often deployed from the.

Hyponyms
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Translations

 * Acehnese: saôh
 * Afar:
 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian:
 * Amharic: መልህቅ
 * Arabic: مِرْسَاة, أَنْجَر
 * Armenian:
 * Aromanian: angurã
 * Assamese: কাঁকৰা
 * Asturian: ancla
 * Avar: лангар
 * Azerbaijani:, lövbər
 * Basque: aingura
 * Belarusian: я́кар
 * Bengali: নঙ্গর, নোঙ্গর
 * Bhojpuri: 𑂪𑂑𑂹𑂏𑂩
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Chakma:
 * Cherokee: ᎦᎾᎯᏍᏙᏗ
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 錨
 * Hokkien:
 * Mandarin:
 * Chuukese: angko
 * Comox: q̓ɛys
 * Corsican: ancura
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dargwa: лабар
 * Dutch:
 * Early Assamese: কাঙ্কৰ
 * Emilian:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Friulian: ancure
 * Galician:, ancra, rizón, arpeu, poutada, fatexa
 * Gallurese: pietra màtzara
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ἄγκυρα
 * Greenlandic: kisaq
 * Gujarati: લંગર,, નાંગર
 * Haitian Creole: jete lank
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: ,
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: ancora
 * Inuktitut: kihaut
 * Iranun:
 * Irish: ancaire
 * Italian:, àncora
 * Ivatan: sajit
 * Japanese:
 * Kalmyk: җахр
 * Kannada:
 * Kazakh: зәкір, іліңгір
 * Khmer:
 * Korean: ,
 * Kumyk: лабар
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Ladin:
 * Lao: ສະມໍ
 * Latgalian: ankars
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: enkurs
 * Lenakel: uus
 * Lezgi: лабар
 * Ligurian: áncoa
 * Lithuanian: inkaras
 * Lombard:
 * Lü: ᦔᦸᧄᧈᦵᦜᧅ, ᦟᦴᧅᦎᦲᧂᧈ
 * Lushootseed: baʔstəd
 * Luxembourgish:
 * Macedonian: котва, сидро
 * Magahi: 𑂪𑂑𑂹𑂏𑂩
 * Maguindanao: sinipit
 * Maithili: गिरानी, लङ्गर
 * Malay:, , anjar
 * Malayalam:
 * Maltese: ankra
 * Maori: punga, haika
 * Maranao: sinipit
 * Marathi:
 * Massachusett: kenakquap
 * Mon:
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Neapolitan:
 * Norman: ancre
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: anker
 * Odia: ଲଙ୍ଗର
 * Okinawan: 錨
 * Old English: ancor
 * Ottoman Turkish: لنگر
 * Pashto: لنګر
 * Persian:
 * Piedmontese: àncora
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Rakhine:
 * Rohingya: nogol
 * Romagnol: ancura
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: ancra
 * Russian:
 * Sardinian:
 * Logudorese: galu
 * Scottish Gaelic: acair
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ко̏тва, си̏дро
 * Roman: ,
 * Slovak: kotva
 * Slovene:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: kokula, kótwa
 * Upper Sorbian: kótwica
 * Spanish: ,
 * Sranan Tongo: ankra
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: pasangit, angkla, angkora, sawo
 * Tajik: лангар
 * Tamil:
 * Tarifit: ariyzim
 * Tatar: якорь
 * Tausug: bōji
 * Telugu:
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: གཏིང་རྡོ
 * Tigrinya: መልሕቕ
 * Tlingit: shayéinaa
 * Turkish: ,
 * Turkmen: labyr
 * Ukrainian:, кітва́, кі́тва, кітви́ця, кі́твиця
 * Urdu: لنگر
 * Uyghur: لەڭگەر
 * Uzbek:
 * Venetian:
 * Vietnamese: ,
 * Volapük:
 * Walloon:
 * Welsh: angor, angorau
 * Yakut: дьаакыр
 * Yiddish: אַנקער


 * Catalan:
 * Finnish: ankkurivarustus
 * Greek:
 * Irish: ancaire
 * Scottish Gaelic: acair
 * Swahili:


 * Catalan:
 * Finnish:
 * German: Verankerung,
 * Lushootseed: baʔstəd


 * Catalan:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * Galician: ligazón, ligame
 * Greek:
 * Italian:
 * Macedonian: котва
 * Romanian: ,


 * Arabic: مُذِيع, مُذِيعَة
 * Armenian: ,
 * Azerbaijani:, , guyəndə
 * Belarusian: ды́ктар, ды́ктарка, вяду́чы, вяду́чая, вядо́ўца
 * Bulgarian: ди́ктор, ди́кторка
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Czech: hlasatel, hlasatelka
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Georgian: ტელეწამყვანი, წამყვანი, დიქტორი
 * German: Leitgesicht, TV-Moderator,, TV-Chefsprecher, Chefsprecher,
 * Japanese: ニュースキャスター, アンカーマン, ,
 * Kazakh: диктор
 * Korean:, , 뉴스 캐스터,
 * Kyrgyz: диктор
 * Macedonian: водител, водителка, спикер, спикерка
 * Malayalam: ,
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Mongolian: ᠬᠥᠲᠦᠯᠦᠭᠴᠢ
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Persian:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: во̀дитељ, водитѐљица
 * Roman: ,
 * Slovak: hlásateľ, hlásateľka
 * Spanish: presentador
 * Swedish:, , ,
 * Tajik: диктор, гӯянда
 * Tibetan: སྒྲོགས་སྦྱང་བྱེད་མཁན, གཙོ་སྐྱོང་བ
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: ди́ктор, ди́кторка, веду́чий, веду́ча
 * Uzbek:


 * Swedish:


 * Georgian:
 * Italian:

Etymology 2
From, , either from the noun or perhaps (via 🇨🇬) from a verb , from the same  word.

Verb

 * 1) To connect an object, especially a ship or a boat, to a fixed point.
 * 2) To cast anchor; to come to anchor.
 * Our ship (or the captain) anchored in the stream.
 * 1) To stop; to fix or rest.
 * 2) To provide emotional stability for a person in distress.
 * 3) To perform as an anchorman or anchorwoman.
 * 4) To be stuck; to be unable to move away from a position.
 * 1) To be stuck; to be unable to move away from a position.

Synonyms

 * , ; See also Thesaurus:stop
 * , ; See also Thesaurus:stop
 * , ; See also Thesaurus:stop

Translations

 * Arabic: رَسَا
 * Asturian: anclar
 * Bulgarian: закотвям
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech: zakotvit
 * Dutch: het anker uitwerpen, ,
 * Esperanto: ankri
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Ido:
 * Interlingua: ancorar
 * Italian:
 * Latin:
 * Lushootseed: baʔsəd
 * Macedonian: всидрува, вкотвува
 * Malayalam: നങ്കൂരമിടുക
 * Maori: punga
 * Polish: zakotwiczyć
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Slovene: zasidrati
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:, ankra upp
 * Volapük: nakön len
 * Yámana: tīya


 * Dutch: houvast bieden
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Romanian:
 * Spanish:


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch: een TV programma coördineren, bij mekaar praten
 * Finnish: toimia ankkurina,
 * German:
 * Macedonian: води
 * Malayalam:, അവതരണം ചെയ്യുക
 * Portuguese:

Etymology 3
Alternative forms.

Etymology
Compare.

Noun

 * 1) width

Etymology
From (compare ).

Noun

 * 1) ill-treatment

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1)  width