Definitions for anchors

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anchors an·chor

Spelling: [ang-ker]

IPA: /ˈæŋ kər/

Anchors is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 227 anagrams from letters in anchors (achnors).

Definitions for anchors

noun

1. any of various devices dropped by a chain, cable, or rope to the bottom of a body of water for preventing or restricting the motion of a vessel or other floating object, typically having broad, hooklike arms that bury themselves in the bottom to provide a firm hold.
2. any similar device for holding fast or checking motion:
3. any device for securing a suspension or cantilever bridge at either end.
4. any of various devices, as a metal tie, for binding one part of a structure to another.
5. a person or thing that can be relied on for support, stability, or security; mainstay:
6. Radio and Television. a person who is the main broadcaster on a program of news, sports, etc., and who usually also serves as coordinator of all participating broadcasters during the program; anchorman or anchorwoman; anchorperson.
7. Television. a program that attracts many viewers who are likely to stay tuned to the network for the programs that follow.
8. a well-known store, especially a department store, that attracts customers to the shopping center in which it is located. Also called anchor store.
9. Slang. automotive brakes.
10. Military. a key position in defense lines.
11. Also, anchorman. Sports. the person on a team, especially a relay team, who competes last. the person farthest to the rear on a tug-of-war team.

Idioms

1. at anchor, held in place by an anchor:
2. drag anchor, (of a vessel) to move with a current or wind because an anchor has failed to hold.
3. drop anchor, to anchor a vessel:
4. weigh anchor, to raise the anchor:

verb (used with object)

1. to hold fast by an anchor.
2. to fix or fasten; affix firmly:
3. to act or serve as an anchor for:

verb (used without object)

1. to drop anchor; lie or ride at anchor:
2. to keep hold or be firmly fixed:
3. Sports, Radio and Television. to act or serve as an anchor.

Origin of anchors

before 900; Middle English anker, ancre, Old English ancor, ancer, ancra (compare Old Frisian, Middle Dutch, Middle Low German anker) Latin anc(h)ora Greek ánkȳra

Examples for anchors

I'll fetch the anchors and we'll moor her wherever she happens to be.

We had three anchors ahead, if not four, the ship labouring a good deal.

ABC News today announced new roles for anchors Diane Sawyer, George Stephanopoulos and David Muir.

Stand fast with the anchors in the waist, and be ready for a cast.

The cable, which had been broken by the anchors of coral fishers, was grapnelled with difficulty.

Costumes worn by each reinvented persona act—in all their extravagant glory—serve as the anchors for the exhibit.

She was on CNBC and three different of their anchors tried to win an argument with her, and she is just too smart.

According to Newseum Curator Carrie Christoffersen, the brush signifies the “vanity required by anchors in the 1970s.”

And beware the perky morning anchors with their inane questions (Aretha Franklin).

When we got back to the schooner, we found her lifting her anchors.