Anchor vs. Presenter — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Anchor and Presenter
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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 ἄγκυρα (ankȳra).Anchors can either be temporary or permanent.
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Presenter
To make a gift or award of
Presented the medal to the winner.
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Anchor
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
The boat, no longer held fast by its anchor, swung wildly
An anchor chain
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Presenter
To make a gift to
Presented the winner with a medal.
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Anchor
An anchorman or anchorwoman
He signed off after nineteen years as CBS news anchor
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Presenter
To offer for observation, examination, or consideration; show or display
The detective presented his badge.
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Anchor
Moor (a ship) to the sea bottom with an anchor
We anchored in the harbour
The ship was anchored in the lee of the island
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Presenter
To offer (a play, for example) for public entertainment.
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Anchor
Present and coordinate (a television or radio programme)
She anchored a television documentary series in the early 1980s
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To afford or furnish
The situation presented us with a chance to improve our knowledge.
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Anchor
(Nautical) A heavy object attached to a vessel by a cable, rope, or chain and dropped into the water to keep the vessel in place either by its weight or by its flukes, which grip the bottom.
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To turn or position in the direction of another
Presented his face to the camera.
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Anchor
A rigid point of support, as for securing a rope.
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(Immunology) To display (an antigen) on the cell surface. Used especially of cells such as macrophages and dendritic cells, where the displayed antigen activates T cells as part of an immune response.
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Anchor
A source of security or stability.
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To represent or depict in a certain manner
The movie presents bankers as greedy and coldhearted.
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An athlete, usually the strongest member of a team, who performs the last stage of a relay race or other competition.
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To introduce, especially with formal ceremony.
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The person at the end of a tug-of-war team.
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To introduce (a young woman) to society with conventional ceremony.
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Anchor
An anchorperson.
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Presenter
To hold, carry, or point (a weapon) in a particular manner as a salutation or sign of honor, usually along the center axis of the body.
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To secure (a vessel) with an anchor.
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(Ecclesiastical) To recommend (a cleric) for a benefice.
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To secure with a fastener or similar device
Bolts anchoring the deck to the house.
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To make a presentation.
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Anchor
To cause to be fixed in place; fix or immobilize
Fear anchoring him in the dark hallway.
Mussels anchoring themselves to a rock.
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To be evident or manifest. Used of a disease or condition
How Lyme disease presents in its later stages.
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To cause to feel attached or secure
Memories anchoring us to our home town.
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To exhibit symptoms or signs during a medical examination
The patient presented with headache and heel pain.
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Anchor
To provide a basis for; establish or found
"innovative cuisines firmly anchored in tradition" (Gourmet Magazine).
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Pres·ent (prĕzənt) Something presented; a gift.
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(Sports) To serve as an anchor for (a team or competition)
Anchor a relay race.
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Pre·sent (prĭ-zĕnt) The position of a rifle or other weapon when presented.
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To narrate or coordinate (a newscast).
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Someone who presents a broadcast programme; a compere or master of ceremonies.
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To provide or form an anchor store for
Two major stores anchor each end of the shopping mall.
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Someone who presents a thing or person to someone else.
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(Nautical) To drop anchor or lie at anchor.
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Presenter
(computing) A small handheld device used to remotely control a computerised slide show.
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(nautical) A tool used to moor a vessel to the bottom of a sea or river to resist movement.
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Presenter
(software) A conceptual layer in GUI-based software that assumes the functionality of the "middle-man".
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Anchor
(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).
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One who presents.
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Anchor
(nautical) The combined anchoring gear (anchor, rode, bill/peak and fittings such as bitts, cat, and windlass.)
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Someone who presents a message of some sort (as a petition or an address or a check or a memorial etc.)
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Anchor
(heraldry) Representation of the nautical tool, used as a heraldic charge.
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An advocate who presents a person (as for an award or a degree or an introduction etc.)
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Anchor
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.
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Presenter
Person who makes a gift of property
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Anchor
(Internet) A marked point in a document that can be the target of a hyperlink.
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Anchor
(television) An anchorman or anchorwoman.
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(athletics) The final runner in a relay race.
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(archery) A point that is touched by the draw hand or string when the bow is fully drawn and ready to shoot.
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(economics) A superstore or other facility that serves as a focus to bring customers into an area.
Anchor tenant
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Anchor
(figurative) That which gives stability or security.
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(architecture) A metal tie holding adjoining parts of a building together.
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Anchor
(US) A screw anchor.
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(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.
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Anchor
One of the anchor-shaped spicules of certain sponges.
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Anchor
One of the calcareous spinules of certain holothurians, as in species of Synapta.
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Anchor
(cartomancy) The thirty-fifth Lenormand card.
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Anchor
(obsolete) An anchorite or anchoress.
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(slang) The brake of a vehicle.
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(soccer) A defensive player, especially one who counters the opposition's best offensive player.
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Anchor
(climbing) A device for attaching a climber at the top of a climb, such as a chain or ring or a natural feature.
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Alternative form of anker
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To connect an object, especially a ship or a boat, to a fixed point.
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To cast anchor; to come to anchor.
Our ship (or the captain) anchored in the stream.
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To stop; to fix or rest.
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Anchor
To provide emotional stability for a person in distress.
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Anchor
To perform as an anchorman or anchorwoman.
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Anchor
To be stuck; to be unable to move away from a position.
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Anchor
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.
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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.
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Fig.: That which gives stability or security; that on which we place dependence for safety.
Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul.
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Anchor
An emblem of hope.
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Anchor
A metal tie holding adjoining parts of a building together.
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Anchor
One of the anchor-shaped spicules of certain sponges; also, one of the calcareous spinules of certain Holothurians, as in species of Synapta.
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Anchor
An achorman, anchorwoman, or anchorperson.
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Anchor
To place at anchor; to secure by an anchor; as, to anchor a ship.
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Anchor
To fix or fasten; to fix in a stable condition; as, to anchor the cables of a suspension bridge.
Till that my nails were anchored in thine eyes.
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To cast anchor; to come to anchor; as, our ship (or the captain) anchored in the stream.
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To stop; to fix or rest.
My invention . . . anchors on Isabel.
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A mechanical device that prevents a vessel from moving
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Anchor
A central cohesive source of support and stability;
Faith is his anchor
The keystone of campaign reform was the ban on soft money
He is the linchpin of this firm
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Anchor
A television reporter who coordinates a broadcast to which several correspondents contribute
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Anchor
Fix firmly and stably;
Anchor the lamppost in concrete
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Anchor
Secure a vessel with an anchor;
We anchored at Baltimore
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