Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - anchor
Anchor
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n. & v. --n. 1 a heavy metal weight used to moor a ship to the sea-bottom or a balloon to the ground. 2 a thing affording stability. 3 a source of confidence. --v. 1 tr. secure (a ship or balloon) by means of an anchor. 2 tr. fix firmly. 3 intr. cast anchor. 4 intr. be moored by means of an anchor. Phrases and idioms anchor-plate a heavy piece of timber or metal, e.g. as support for suspension-bridge cables. at anchor moored by means of an anchor. cast (or come to) anchor let the anchor down. weigh anchor take the anchor up. Etymology: OE ancor f. L anchora f. Gk agkura
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I. noun Usage: often attributive see: angle Date: before 12th century a device usually of metal attached to a ship or boat by a cable and cast overboard to hold it in a particular place by means of a fluke that digs into the bottom, a reliable or principal support ; mainstay, something that serves to hold an object firmly, an object shaped like a ship's ~, an ~man or ~woman, the member of a team (as a relay team) that competes last, a large business (as a department store) that attracts customers and other businesses to a shopping center or mall, a fixed object (as a tree or a piton) to which a climber's rope is secured, ~less adjective II. verb (~ed; ~ing) Date: 13th century transitive verb to hold in place in the water by an ~ , to secure firmly ; fix , to act or serve as an ~ for , intransitive verb to cast ~, to become fixed ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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