Что (кто) такое Anchor - определение

MOORING DEVICE

Anchors; ⚓; Kedge anchor; Maritime anchor; CQR; Anchor (Symbol); Boat anchor; Stock anchor; Danforth (anchor); Stream anchor; Danforth anchor; Mushroom anchor; Knox anchor; Fluke (anchor); CQR anchor; Anchoring; Holding ground; Bruce (anchor); Anchor symbol; Anchor (as Symbol); Herreshoff anchor

anchor

1) to cast, drop anchor

2) to raise, weigh anchor

3) at anchor (to ride at anchor)

v. to anchor firmly

anchor

(anchors, anchoring, anchored)

An anchor is a heavy hooked object that is dropped from a boat into the water at the end of a chain in order to make the boat stay in one place.

N-COUNT

When a boat anchors or when you anchor it, its anchor is dropped into the water in order to make it stay in one place.

We could anchor off the pier...

They anchored the boat.

VERB: V, V n

If you anchor an object somewhere, you fix it to something to prevent it moving from that place.

The roots anchor the plant in the earth...

The child seat belt was not properly anchored to the car.

= tether

VERB: V n prep, V-ed

The person who anchors a television or radio programme, especially a news programme, is the person who presents it and acts as a link between interviews and reports which come from other places or studios. (mainly AM)

Viewers saw him anchoring a five-minute summary of regional news.

...a series of cassettes on the Vietnam War, anchored by Mr. Cronkite.

VERB: V n, V-ed

The anchor on a television or radio programme, especially a news programme, is the person who presents it. (mainly AM)

He worked in the news division of ABC-he was the anchor of its 15-minute evening newscast.

N-COUNT

If a boat is at anchor, it is floating in a particular place and is prevented from moving by its anchor.

PHRASE

anchor

¦ noun

1. a heavy object used to moor a ship to the sea bottom, typically having a metal shank with a pair of curved, barbed flukes.

(anchors) Brit. informal the brakes of a car.

2. chiefly N. Amer. an anchorman or anchorwoman.

¦ verb

1. moor with an anchor.

secure firmly in position.

2. chiefly N. Amer. present and coordinate (a television or radio programme).

Phrases

at anchor moored with an anchor.

Origin

OE ancor, ancra, via L. from Gk ankura; reinforced in ME by OFr. ancre.

Википедия

Anchor

An anchor is a device, normally made of metal, used to secure a vessel to the bed of a body of water to prevent the craft from drifting due to wind or current. The word derives from Latin ancoracode: lat promoted to code: la , which itself comes from the Greek ἄγκυραcode: ell promoted to code: el (ankȳracode: ell promoted to code: el ).

Anchors can either be temporary or permanent. Permanent anchors are used in the creation of a mooring, and are rarely moved; a specialist service is normally needed to move or maintain them. Vessels carry one or more temporary anchors, which may be of different designs and weights.

A sea anchor is a drag device, not in contact with the seabed, used to minimise drift of a vessel relative to the water. A drogue is a drag device used to slow or help steer a vessel running before a storm in a following or overtaking sea, or when crossing a bar in a breaking sea.

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