Definitions for anchor

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anchor an·chor

Spelling: [ang-ker]

IPA: /ˈæŋ kər/

Anchor is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 109 anagrams from letters in anchor (achnor).

Definitions for anchor

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 anchor

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 anchor

Next morning, however, we saw her at anchor in the channel that leads to Kingston.

This was laying an anchor to-windward, as it turned out, in the end.

Have a kid here –what some pejoratively refer to as an “anchor baby” – and it is tougher to be deported.

“When immigrants hear ‘anchor babies,’ they hear ‘they hate us,’” says Sharry.

Removing choice is bullying and seems a horrid basis on which to anchor your relationship.

They saw an American ship riding at anchor a mile or more from shore.

Moderator Alicia Menendez, an anchor on the Fusion network, asked about the influence of her children.

In an interview last week, Jeff Daniels, who plays ACN anchor Will McAvoy, talked to me about this.

This was a bad beginning, and by the time we reached a tavern, I was ready to anchor.

And then, in a stronger voice, he said: "anchor, Hardy; anchor."