Noun: anchor
| Singular | anchor |
| Plural | anchors |
Sample Sentences
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Men that I knew around Wapatomac didn't wear high, shiny plug hats, nor yeller spring overcoats, nor carry canes with ivory heads as big as a catboat's anchor, as you might say. [1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter X, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:]
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Condoleezza Rice pops up on Fox to be told by the anchor: “When you invade a sovereign nation, that is a war crime.” [2022 March 17, Aditya Chakrabortty, “Western values? They enthroned the monster who is shelling Ukrainians today”, in The Guardian:]
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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 […] [2006, Planning: For the Natural and Built Environment, numbers 1650-1666, page 15:]
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However, mall developers offer huge discounts to department stores because these anchors create traffic […] [2007, A. Sivakumar, Retail Marketing, page 102:]
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which hope we have as an anchor of the soul [1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Hebrew 6:19:]
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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. [1967, Terry Carr, New Worlds of Fantasy, Ace Books, page 56:]
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[Police:] ‘… when we blow the horn, you do an emergency stop.’ So the foaf 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. [2005, urban legend, The Wordsworth Book of Urban Legend, Wordsworth Editions, page 150]
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“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. [2008, Gavin Haines, “Wheels on fire”, in Bournemouth Daily Echo:]
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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 captain Jordan Henderson fails to recover full fitness after groin surgery. [2021 March 31, Phil McNulty, “England 2-1 Poland: What shape are Gareth Southgate's side in?”, in BBC Sport:]
Nouns inflected like anchor
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *h₂enk-der.?
3. Pre-Greekbor.?
4. Ancient Greek ᾰ̓́γκῡρᾰ (ắnkūră)bor.?
5. Latin ancorabor.
6. Proto-Germanic *ankurô
7. Proto-West Germanic *ankurō
8. Old English ancor
9. Middle English anker
10. English anchor
11. From Middle English anker, from Old English ancor, ancra, from Latin ancora, from (or cognate with) Ancient Greek ἄγκυρα (ánkura). The modern form is a sixteenth-century modification after the Medieval Latin spelling anchora. Doublet of ancora, anker, angora, and Ankara. See: Middle English Nouns '
anker', Old English Nouns '
ancor', Latin Nouns '
ancora', Ancient Greek Nouns '
ἄγκυρα'.