anchor meaning
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[ˈæŋkə] [ˈæŋkɚ] [ˈeɪŋkɚ] [-æŋkə(r)] 
US WAnchor
- An anchor is a device, normally made of metal, used to connect a vessel to the bed of a body of water to prevent the craft from drifting due to wind or current. The word derives from Latin ancora, which itself comes from the Greek ἄγκυρα (ankura).
- Anchors can either be temporary or permanent. Permanent anchors are used in the creation of a mooring, and are rarely moved; a specialist service is normally needed to move or maintain them.
- A sea anchor is a drogue, not in contact with the seabed, used to control a drifting vessel.
- NounPLanchors
- (nautical) A tool used to moor a vessel to the bottom of a sea or river to resist movement.
- Men that I knew around Wapatomac didn't wear high, shiny plug hats, nor yeller spring overcoats, nor carry canes with ivory heads as big as a catboat's anchor, as you might say.
- (nautical) The combined anchoring gear (anchor, rode, and fittings such as bitts, cat, and windlass.).
- 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.
- (nautical) A tool used to moor a vessel to the bottom of a sea or river to resist movement.
- VerbSGanchorsPRanchoringPT, PPanchored
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- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- This is the case of zonadhesin, a protein from the family of agglutinins that was used as an anchor by Zhang et al.
- The Constitution is anchored in English liberal thought and the Magna Carta.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of anchor in English Dictionary
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Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "anchor" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun. It's also a verb.