| anchor | |
| 1. n. (nautical) A tool used to moor a vessel to the bottom of a sea or river to resist movement. | |
| 2. n. (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). | |
| 3. n. (nautical) The combined anchoring gear (anchor, rode, bill/peak and fittings such as bitts, cat, and windlass.) | |
| 4. n. (heraldry) Representation of the nautical tool, used as a heraldic charge. | |
| 5. n. 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 | |
| 6. n. (Internet) A marked point in a document that can be the target of a hyperlink. | |
| 7. n. (television) An anchorman or anchorwoman. | |
| 8. n. (athletics) The final runner in a relay race. | |
| 9. n. (archery) A point that is touched by the draw hand or string when the bow is fully drawn and ready to shoot. | |
| 10. n. (economics) A superstore or other facility that serves as a focus to bring customers into an area. | |
| 11. n. (figurative) That which gives stability or security. | |
| 12. n. (architecture) A metal tie holding adjoining parts of a building together. | |
| 13. n. (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-tong | |
| 14. n. One of the anchor-shaped spicules of certain sponges. | |
| 15. n. One of the calcareous spinules of certain holothurians, as in species of Synapta. | |
| 16. n. (cartomancy) The thirty-fifth Lenormand card. | |
| 17. n. (obsolete) An anchorite or anchoress. | |
| 18. v. To connect an object, especially a ship or a boat, to a fixed point. | |
| 19. v. To cast anchor; to come to anchor. | |
| Our ship (or the captain) anchored in the stream. | |
| 20. v. To stop; to fix or rest. | |
| 21. v. To provide emotional stability for a person in distress. | |
| 22. v. To perform as an anchorman or anchorwoman. | |
| 23. v. To be stuck; to be unable to move away from a position. | |
