Anchornoun
(nautical) A tool used to moor a vessel to the bottom of a sea or river to resist movement.
Presenternoun
Someone who presents a broadcast programme; a compere or master of ceremonies.
Anchornoun
(nautical) 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).
Presenternoun
Someone who presents a thing or person to someone else.
Anchornoun
(nautical) The combined anchoring gear (anchor, rode, bill/peak and fittings such as bitts, cat, and windlass.)
Presenternoun
(computing) A small handheld device used to remotely control a computerised slide show.
Anchornoun
(heraldry) Representation of the nautical tool, used as a heraldic charge.
Presenternoun
(software) A conceptual layer in GUI-based software that assumes the functionality of the "middle-man".
Anchornoun
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.
Presenternoun
One who presents.
Anchornoun
(Internet) A marked point in a document that can be the target of a hyperlink.
Presenternoun
someone who presents a message of some sort (as a petition or an address or a check or a memorial etc.)
Anchornoun
(television) An anchorman or anchorwoman.
Presenternoun
an advocate who presents a person (as for an award or a degree or an introduction etc.)
Anchornoun
(athletics) The final runner in a relay race.
Presenternoun
person who makes a gift of property
Anchornoun
(archery) A point that is touched by the draw hand or string when the bow is fully drawn and ready to shoot.
Anchornoun
(economics) A superstore or other facility that serves as a focus to bring customers into an area.
Anchornoun
(figurative) That which gives stability or security.
Anchornoun
(architecture) A metal tie holding adjoining parts of a building together.
Anchornoun
(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.
Anchornoun
One of the anchor-shaped spicules of certain sponges.
Anchornoun
One of the calcareous spinules of certain holothurians, as in species of Synapta.
Anchornoun
(cartomancy) The thirty-fifth Lenormand card.
Anchornoun
(obsolete) An anchorite or anchoress.
Anchorverb
To connect an object, especially a ship or a boat, to a fixed point.
Anchorverb
To cast anchor; to come to anchor.
âOur ship (or the captain) anchored in the stream.â;
Anchorverb
To stop; to fix or rest.
Anchorverb
To provide emotional stability for a person in distress.
Anchorverb
To perform as an anchorman or anchorwoman.
Anchorverb
To be stuck; to be unable to move away from a position.
Anchornoun
A iron instrument which is attached to a ship by a cable (rope or chain), and which, being cast overboard, lays hold of the earth by a fluke or hook and thus retains the ship in a particular station.
Anchornoun
Any instrument or contrivance serving a purpose like that of a ship's anchor, as an arrangement of timber to hold a dam fast; a contrivance to hold the end of a bridge cable, or other similar part; a contrivance used by founders to hold the core of a mold in place.
Anchornoun
Fig.: That which gives stability or security; that on which we place dependence for safety.
âWhich hope we have as an anchor of the soul.â;
Anchornoun
An emblem of hope.
Anchornoun
A metal tie holding adjoining parts of a building together.
Anchornoun
One of the anchor-shaped spicules of certain sponges; also, one of the calcareous spinules of certain Holothurians, as in species of Synapta.
Anchornoun
an achorman, anchorwoman, or anchorperson.
Anchornoun
An anchoret.
Anchorverb
To place at anchor; to secure by an anchor; as, to anchor a ship.
Anchorverb
To fix or fasten; to fix in a stable condition; as, to anchor the cables of a suspension bridge.
âTill that my nails were anchored in thine eyes.â;
Anchorverb
To cast anchor; to come to anchor; as, our ship (or the captain) anchored in the stream.
Anchorverb
To stop; to fix or rest.
âMy invention . . . anchors on Isabel.â;
Anchornoun
a mechanical device that prevents a vessel from moving
Anchornoun
a central cohesive source of support and stability;
âfaith is his anchorâ; âthe keystone of campaign reform was the ban on soft moneyâ; âhe is the linchpin of this firmâ;
Anchornoun
a television reporter who coordinates a broadcast to which several correspondents contribute
Anchorverb
fix firmly and stably;
âanchor the lamppost in concreteâ;
Anchorverb
secure a vessel with an anchor;
âWe anchored at Baltimoreâ;
Anchornoun
a heavy object attached to a cable or chain and used to moor a ship to the sea bottom, typically having a metal shank with a pair of curved, barbed flukes at one end
âthe boat, no longer held fast by its anchor, swung wildlyâ; âan anchor chainâ;
Anchornoun
a person or thing that provides stability or confidence in an otherwise uncertain situation
âthe European Community is the economic anchor of the New Europeâ;
Anchornoun
a large and prestigious department store prominently sited in a new shopping centre.
Anchornoun
the brakes of a car
âthis idiot in front slammed on his anchors at a crossingâ;
Anchornoun
an anchorman or anchorwoman
âhe signed off after nineteen years as CBS news anchorâ;
Anchorverb
moor (a ship) to the sea bottom with an anchor
âwe anchored in the harbourâ; âthe ship was anchored in the lee of the islandâ;
Anchorverb
secure firmly in position
âthe tail is used as a hook with which the fish anchors itself to coralâ;
Anchorverb
provide with a firm basis or foundation
âit is important that policy be anchored to some acceptable theoretical basisâ;
Anchorverb
present and coordinate (a television or radio programme)
âshe anchored a television documentary series in the early 1980sâ;
Anchor
An anchor is a device, normally made of metal, used to secure 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 áŒÎłÎșÏ Ïα (ankÈłra).Anchors can either be temporary or permanent.