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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



... but upon the concrete fact that Jesus Christ has risen, and that Jesus Christ is glorified. Does my faith grasp the Christ that was—who died for me? Does my heart cling to the Christ who is—who lives and reigns, and with whom my life is hid in God? Do my hopes crystallise round, and anchor upon, the Christ that is to come, and pierce the dimness of the future and the gloom of the grave, looking onwards to that day of days when He, who is our life, shall appear, and we shall appear also with Him ...
— Expositions Of Holy Scripture - Volume I: St. Luke, Chaps. I to XII • Alexander Maclaren

... to proceed immediately to the Pacific and join the admiral on that station at Callao; and, accordingly, after one of the briefest of stays at a port which I have always longed since to have a more extended acquaintanceship with, we up anchor and paddled away to our assigned rendezvous—not by way of the "Horn," which we did not go round, as I had imagined we would, for it was far too stormy; but, through the Straits of Magellan, which are easy enough of passage to a steamer, independent almost of winds ...
— Tom Finch's Monkey - and How he Dined with the Admiral • John C. Hutcheson

... sail fast by the jigger, with a man on each yard, at the word the whole canvas of the ship was loosed, and with the greatest rapidity possible everything was sheeted home and hoisted up, the anchor tripped and cat-headed, and ...
— Is Shakespeare Dead? - from my Autobiography • Mark Twain

... never be able to stop. He observed that her inclinations were like the Bay of Biscay; for why? because you may heave your deep sea lead long enough without ever reaching the bottom; that he who comes to anchor on a wife may find himself moored in d—d foul ground, and after all, can't for his blood slip his cable; and that, for his own part, though he might make short trips for pastime, he would never embark in ...
— The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, Volume I • Tobias Smollett

... Portland' swung round with the tide, strangers were ordered on shore, Coleridge and James Patteson said their last farewells, and while the younger brother went home by the night-train to carry the final greetings to his father and sisters, the ship weighed anchor and the voyage ...
— Life of John Coleridge Patteson • Charlotte M. Yonge


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