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Anchor   /ˈæŋkər/   Listen
Anchor

noun
1.
A mechanical device that prevents a vessel from moving.  Synonym: ground tackle.
2.
A central cohesive source of support and stability.  Synonyms: backbone, keystone, linchpin, lynchpin, mainstay.  "The keystone of campaign reform was the ban on soft money" , "He is the linchpin of this firm"
3.
A television reporter who coordinates a broadcast to which several correspondents contribute.  Synonyms: anchorman, anchorperson.
verb
(past & past part. anchored; pres. part. anchoring)
1.
Fix firmly and stably.  Synonym: ground.
2.
Secure a vessel with an anchor.  Synonyms: cast anchor, drop anchor.



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"Anchor" Quotes from Famous Books



... station. The voyage of discovery was unprofitable; there was nothing to discover. So far as he could see—which was by no means far—upon each side of the building was nothing but bare fields and tossing pines, and wind and cold and blackness. He came to anchor once more by the suitcase and drew a ...
— The Portygee • Joseph Crosby Lincoln

... Madeira, and after a pleasant but uneventful voyage cast anchor in the harbor of Funchal, the capital, in less than ...
— A Fantasy of Mediterranean Travel • S. G. Bayne

... deepest shade. The wind has blown so constantly west for nearly three weeks, that we have not only received no mails from the continent, but the transports have been detained in the Downs, and the secret expedition has remained at anchor. I have prayed it might continue, but the wind has got to the east to-day. Having never been prejudiced in favour of this exploit, what must I think of it when the French ...
— The Letters of Horace Walpole, Volume 2 • Horace Walpole

... and had seen how, when to human vision all was lost, the word of God had been triumphantly accomplished. Henceforward what could daunt their faith, or chill the ardor of their love? In the keenest sorrow they had "strong consolation," a hope which was as "an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast."(582) They had been witness to the wisdom and power of God, and they were "persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature," ...
— The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan • Ellen G. White

... parted, and within the next twenty minutes the steamer had started, bearing me far away from the Isle of Skye, that beautiful, weird and mystic region full of strange legends and memories, which to me had proved a veritable wonderland. I watched the 'Diana' at anchor in the bay of Portree till I could see her no more,—and it was getting on towards noon when I suddenly noticed the people on board the steamer making a rush to one side of the deck to look at something that was evidently both startling ...
— The Life Everlasting: A Reality of Romance • Marie Corelli


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