Definizione monolingua

anchor

anchor (third-person singular simple present anchors, present participle anchoring, simple past and past participle anchored)

1. To hold an object, especially a ship or a boat to a fixed point.
2. To provide emotional stability for a person in distress.
3. To perform as an anchorman.

anchor (plural anchors)

1. (nautical) A tool used to moor a vessel to the bottom of a sea or river to resist movement.

   • Formerly a vessel would differentiate amongst the anchors carried as waist anchor, best bower, bower, stream and kedge anchors, depending on purpose and, to a great extent, on mass and size of the anchor. Modern usage is storm anchor for the heaviest anchor with the longest rode, best bower or simply bower for the most commonly used anchor deployed from the bow, and stream or lunch hook for a small, light anchor used for temporary moorage and often deployed from the stern.
   • (nautical) An iron device so shaped as to grip the bottom and hold a vessel at her berth by the chain or rope attached. (FM 55-501).

2. (nautical) Generic term to refer to the combined anchoring gear (anchor, rode, and fittings such as bitts, cat, and windlass.)
3. A fixed point, especially materials or tools used to affix something at that point.
4. (Internet) A marked point in a document that can be the target of a hyperlink.
5. (television) An anchorman or anchorwoman.

Definizione dizionario anchor

	ancora
	HTML tag or link
	tool to hook a vessel into sea bottom
	Something, usually a heavy piece of metal with points which dig into the sea-bed, used to hold a boat in one position.

	ancoraggio
	A format code in a desktop publishing or word processing document that keeps an element in the document, such as a figure or a caption or a label associated with the figure, in a certain position in the document. The anchored object is generally attached to another element in the document.

	agganciare
	A format code in a desktop publishing or word processing document that keeps an element in the document, such as a figure or a caption or a label associated with the figure, in a certain position in the document. The anchored object is generally attached to another element in the document.

ancorare

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Altri significati:

to provide emotional stability

To provide emotional stability for a person in distress.

(nautical) A tool used to moor a vessel to the bottom of a sea or river to resist movement.

anchoring gear as a whole

(nautical) An iron device so shaped as to grip the bottom and hold a vessel at her berth by the chain or rope attached. (FM 55-501).

(Internet) An HTML/XHTML mark-up tag to define a position in a file, or a link to a URL.

to hold an object to a fixed point

(nautical) Generic term to refer to the combined anchoring gear (anchor, rode, and fittings such as bitts, cat, and windlass.)

To hold an object, especially a ship or a boat to a fixed point.

TV anchorman

to perform as a TV anchorman

A fixed point, especially materials or tools used to affix something at that point.

tools to affix something at a fixed point

(television) An anchorman or anchorwoman.

To perform as an anchorman.

anchor (man)