From en.wiktionary.org:
** English
[wp]
*** Alternative forms
- [en]
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [ăngʹkər] , [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Etymology 1
From [en], from [en], [ang], from [en], from (or cognate with) [en]. The
modern form is a sixteenth-century modification after the [ML.] spelling [la].
[en].
**** Noun
[en-noun]
1. [en] A tool used to moor a vessel to the bottom of a sea or river to resist movement.
2. * [chapter=10]
3. [en] 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).
4. [en] The combined anchoring gear (anchor, rode , bill / peak and fittings such as bitts , cat , and windlass .)
5. [en] Representation of the nautical tool, used as a heraldic charge .
6. 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.
7. [en] [en] A marked point in a document that can be the target of a hyperlink .
8. [en] A line of code in a program which acts as a reference point for further code to be added immediately before or after, usually via copy and paste .
9. [en] [en] An anchorman or anchorwoman .
10. * [en]
11. [en] The final runner in a relay race .
12. [en] A point that is touched by the draw hand or string when the bow is fully drawn and ready to shoot.
13. [en] A superstore or other facility that serves as a focus to bring customers into an area.
14. * {{ quote-journal | en | year=2006 | journal=Planning: For the Natural and Built Environment | issue=1650-1666 | page=15
|passage=Supermarkets have also had to adjust. Tesco, Sainsbury's and Asda
have put a much greater emphasis on developing smaller high street stores or
becoming ANCHORS for mixed-used regeneration schemes [...]}}
1. * {{ quote-text | en | year=2007 | author=A. Sivakumar | title=Retail Marketing | page=102
|passage=However, mall developers offer huge discounts to department stores
because these ANCHORS create traffic [...]}}
1. [en] That which gives stability or security.
2. * [Hebrew]
3. [en] A metal tie holding adjoining parts of a building together.
4. [en] A screw anchor .
5. [en] 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.
6. One of the anchor-shaped spicule s of certain sponge s.
7. One of the calcareous spinule s of certain holothurian s, as in species of _Synapta_ .
8. [en] The thirty-fifth Lenormand card.
9. [en] The brake of a vehicle .
10. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1967 | author=Terry Carr | title=New Worlds of Fantasy | publisher=Ace Books | page=56
|passage=I saw Tim look back through the rear window of the cab and prayed he
wouldn't do the first thing that came into his mind and step on the ANCHORS.}}
1. * 2005 , urban legend, _The Wordsworth Book of Urban Legend_ , Wordsworth Editions, page 150:
2. *: [ Police: ] ‘… when we blow the horn, you do an emergency stop.’ So the [en] 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.
3. * {{ quote-journal | en | year=2008 | author=Gavin Haines | title= Wheels on fire (see https://bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/2223536._) | journal=Bournemouth Daily Echo
|passage=“Brake, brake, brake! You need to scrub off more speed before you
enter the corner,” he explained, as I took his advice and jumped on the
ANCHORS.}}
1. [en] A defensive player, especially one who counters the opposition's best offensive player.
2. * {{ quote-web | en | date=31 March 2021 | author=Phil McNulty | title=England 2-1 Poland: What shape are Gareth Southgate's side in?
|work=BBC Sport|url=https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/56596932|passage=[Phil
Foden] once again demonstrated his pedigree and will push for a start, while
[Leeds United]'s [Kalvin Phillips] will hope he has done enough to get a
chance as a defensive midfield ANCHOR if [Liverpool F.C.] captain [Jordan
Henderson] fails to recover full fitness after groin surgery.}}
1. [en] A batter who remains in for a long time.
2. [en] 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 [en] , and _stream_ or _lunch hook_ for a small, light anchor used for temporary moorage and often deployed from the [en] .
***** Hyponyms
[television] [en], [en]
***** Derived terms
{{col4|en|swing at anchor|w-anchor |anchor bend|anchor hitch|anchor ring|crown
and anchor|drift anchor|drogue anchor|ice anchor|rond
anchor|rond-anchor|swallow the anchor|weather anchor|anchor
baby|anchorsmith|boat anchor |anchor ball|bring one's arse to anchor,bring
one's ass to an anchor,bring one's ass to anchor |anchor buoy |anchor ice|come
to anchor |anchor light |anchor line |anchor man |anchor nut |anchor pylon
|anchor shot |anchor space |anchor store |anchor's aweigh |anchor tenant
|anchor worm |anchorable |anchorage|anchor point|anchor-hoy |anchoress
|anchorhold |anchorless |anchorlike |anchorman |anchorperson |at anchor |Blue
Anchor |bower anchor |bring one's arse to an anchor |coanchor |drop anchor
|foul anchor |fouled anchor |lay an anchor to the windward |midfield anchor
|mushroom anchor |news anchor |screw anchor |sea anchor|anchor seine |sheet
anchor |trust anchor |weigh anchor}}
***** Descendants
- [chk]
***** Translations
[tool to moor a vessel into sea bottom]
- Acehnese: [ace]
- Afar: [aa]
- Afrikaans: [af]
- Albanian: [sq]
- Amharic: [am]
- Arabic: [ar] , [ar]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Aromanian: [rup]
- Assamese: [as]
- Asturian: [ast]
- Avar: [av]
- Azerbaijani: [az] , [az]
- Basque: [eu]
- Belarusian: [be]
- Bengali: [bn] , [bn]
- Bhojpuri: [bho]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Burmese: [my] , [my]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chakma: [ccp]
- Cherokee: [chr]
- Chinese:
- Chuukese: [chk]
- Comox: [coo]
- Corsican: [co]
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Dargwa: [dar]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Early Assamese: [inc-oas]
- Emilian: [egl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Estonian: [et]
- Faroese: [fo]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Friulian: [fur]
- Galician: [gl] , [gl] , [gl] , [gl] , [gl] , [gl]
- Gallurese: [sdn]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Greenlandic: [kl]
- Gujarati: [gu] , [gu] , [gu]
- Haitian Creole: [ht]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hindi: [hi] , [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Ido: [io]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Interlingua: [ia]
- Inuktitut: [iu]
- Iranun: [ill]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it] , [it]
- Ivatan: [ivv]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Kalmyk: [xal]
- Kannada: [kn]
- Kazakh: [kk] , [kk]
- Khmer: [km]
- Korean: [ko] , [ko]
- Kumyk: [kum]
- Kurdish:
- Kyrgyz: [ky]
- Ladin: [lld]
- Lao: [lo]
- Latgalian: [ltg]
- Latin: [la]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Lenakel: [tnl]
- Lezgi: [lez]
- Ligurian: [lij]
- Lithuanian: [lt]
- Livonian: [liv]
- Lombard: [lmo]
- Lü: [khb] , [khb]
- Lushootseed: [lut]
- Luxembourgish: [lb]
- Macedonian: [mk] , [mk]
- Magahi: [mag]
- Maguindanao: [mdh]
- Maithili: [mai] , [mai]
- Malay: [ms] , [ms] , [ms]
- Malayalam: [ml]
- Maltese: [mt]
- Maori: [mi] , [mi]
- Maranao: [mrw]
- Marathi: [mr]
- Massachusett: [wam]
- Mon: [mnw]
- Mongolian:
- Neapolitan: [nap]
- Norman: [nrf]
- Norwegian:
- Odia: [or]
- Okinawan: [ryu]
- Old English: [ang]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota]
- Pashto: [ps]
- Persian:
- Piedmontese: [pms]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Rakhine: [rki]
- Rohingya: [rhg]
- Romagnol: [rgn]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Romansch: [rm]
- Russian: [ru]
- Sardinian:
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovak: [sk]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Sorbian:
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es] [small] , [es] , [es] [small] , [es] [Puerto Rico]
- Sranan Tongo: [srn]
- Swahili: [sw]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Tagalog: [tl] , [tl] , [tl] , [tl]
- Tajik: [tg]
- Tamil: [ta]
- Tarifit: [rif]
- Tatar: [tt]
- Tausug: [tsg]
- Telugu: [te]
- Thai: [th]
- Tibetan: [bo]
- Tigrinya: [ti]
- Tlingit: [tli]
- Turkish: [tr] , [tr]
- Turkmen: [tk]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk] , [uk] , [uk] , [uk]
- Urdu: [ur]
- Uyghur: [ug]
- Uzbek: [uz] , [uz]
- Venetan: [vec]
- Vietnamese: [vi] , [vi]
- Volapük: [vo]
- Walloon: [wa]
- Welsh: [cy] , [cy]
- Yakut: [sah]
- Yiddish: [yi]
[trans-bottom]
[anchoring gear as a whole]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Greek: [el]
- Irish: [ga]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Swahili: [sw]
[trans-bottom]
[any instrument serving similar purpose to anchor]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Finnish: [fi]
- German: [de] , [de] [figurative]
- Lushootseed: [lut]
[trans-bottom]
[link target in a document]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Galician: [gl] , [gl]
- Greek: [el]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Korean: [ko]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro]
[trans-bottom]
[(TV) anchorman or anchorwoman]
- Arabic: [ar] , [ar]
- Armenian: [hy] , [hy]
- Azerbaijani: [az] , [az] , [az] [South Azerbaijani]
- Belarusian: [be] , [be] , [be] , [be] , [be]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs] , [cs]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- Georgian: [ka] , [ka] , [ka]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de] , [de] , [de] , [de]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja] , [ja] , [ja]
- Kazakh: [kk]
- Korean: [ko] , [ko] , [ko] , [ko]
- Kyrgyz: [ky]
- Macedonian: [mk] , [mk] , [mk] , [mk]
- Malayalam: [ml] , [ml]
- Mongolian:
- Norwegian:
- Persian: [fa]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovak: [sk] , [sk]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv] , [sv] , [sv]
- Tajik: [tg] , [tg]
- Tibetan: [bo] , [bo]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk] , [uk] , [uk]
- Uzbek: [uz]
[trans-bottom]
[(figuratively) which gives stability or security]
- Swedish: [sv]
[trans-bottom]
[checktrans-top]
- Georgian: [ka]
- Italian: [it]
[trans-bottom]
*** Etymology 2
From [en], [enm], either from the noun or perhaps (via [fro])[1] from a [en]
verb [la], from the same [en] word [la].
**** Verb
[en-verb]
1. To connect an object, especially a ship or a boat, to a fixed point.
2. To cast anchor ; to come to anchor.
3. To stop ; to fix or rest .
4. * [II]
5. To provide emotional stability for a person in distress .
6. To perform as an anchorman or anchorwoman .
7. To be stuck ; to be unable to move away from a position.
8. * [en]
***** Synonyms
- [to hold an object to a fixed point] [en] , [en]
- [to cast anchor] [en]
- [to stop] [en] , [en] ; See also Thesaurus:stop
- [to provide emotional stability] [en]
- [to perform as a TV anchorman] [en] , [en]
- [to be stuck] [en] , [en] , [en]
***** Derived terms
[en]
***** Translations
[to hold an object to a fixed point]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Asturian: [ast]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Dutch: het anker uitwerpen, [nl] , [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Ido: [io]
- Interlingua: [ia]
- Italian: [it]
- Latin: [la]
- Lushootseed: [lut]
- Macedonian: [mk] , [mk]
- Malayalam: [ml]
- Maori: [mi]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
- Volapük: [vo]
- Yámana: [yag]
[trans-bottom]
[to provide emotional stability]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
- German: [de]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Spanish: [es]
[trans-bottom]
[to perform as a TV anchorman]
- Chinese:
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- German: [de]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Malayalam: [ml] , [ml]
- Portuguese: [pt]
[trans-bottom]
*** Etymology 3
[en], [enm], from [en], [ang], from [en], [la], either with significant
shortening of the word within Old English or via an unattested [en]
form.[2][3]
**** Noun
[en-noun]
1. [en] [en] An anchorite or anchoress .
2. * [version=Q2]
***** Derived terms
[en]
*** Etymology 4
Alternative form.
**** Noun
[en-noun]
1. [en] .
*** References
References:
[1]. [ankeren]
[2]. [entry=ancre]
[3]. [pos= _n._ [2]]
*** Anagrams
- [en]
[en] [en]
** Asturian
*** Etymology
Compare [ast].
*** Noun
[m]
1. width
**** Synonyms
- [ast]
- [ast]
**** Related terms
- [ast]
** Irish
*** Etymology
From [ga] (compare [ga]).
*** Noun
[m]
1. ill-treatment
**** Declension
[a]
*** Mutation
[msn]
*** Further reading
- [R:ga:ODonaill]
** Middle English
*** Noun
[enm]
1. [enm] [enm]
** Spanish
*** Etymology
From [es].
*** Pronunciation
[es-pr]
*** Noun
[m]
1. [es] width
*** Further reading
- [R:es:DRAE]