Dictionary Entry
anchor
anchor is a 6-letter English word with 17 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A iron instrument which is attached to a ship by a cable (rope or chain), and which, being cast overboard, lays hold of the earth by a fluke or hook and thus retains the ship in a particular station. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 12 · 17 senses
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- 1noun
A iron instrument which is attached to a ship by a cable (rope or chain), and which, being cast overboard, lays hold of the earth by a fluke or hook and thus retains the ship in a particular station.
- 2noun
Any instrument or contrivance serving a purpose like that of a ship's anchor, as an arrangement of timber to hold a dam fast; a contrivance to hold the end of a bridge cable, or other similar part; a contrivance used by founders to hold the core of a mold in place.
- 3noun
Fig.: That which gives stability or security; that on which we place dependence for safety.
- 4noun
An emblem of hope.
- 5noun
A metal tie holding adjoining parts of a building together.
- 6noun
Carved work, somewhat resembling an anchor or arrowhead; -- a part of the ornaments of certain moldings. It is seen in the echinus, or egg-and-anchor (called also egg-and-dart, egg-and-tongue) ornament.
- 7noun
One of the anchor-shaped spicules of certain sponges; also, one of the calcareous spinules of certain Holothurians, as in species of Synapta.
- 8transitive verb
To place at anchor; to secure by an anchor; as, to anchor a ship.
- 9transitive verb
To fix or fasten; to fix in a stable condition; as, to anchor the cables of a suspension bridge.
- 10intransitive verb
To cast anchor; to come to anchor; as, our ship (or the captain) anchored in the stream.
- 11intransitive verb
To stop; to fix or rest.
- 12noun
An anchoret.
- 13noun
a mechanical device that prevents a vessel from moving
- 14noun
a central cohesive source of support and stability
"faith is his anchor"
"the keystone of campaign reform was the ban on soft money"
- 15noun
a television reporter who coordinates a broadcast to which several correspondents contribute
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- 16verb
secure a vessel with an anchor
"We anchored at Baltimore"
- 17verb
fix firmly and stably
"anchor the lamppost in concrete"
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