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General dictionaries General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. anchor: Compact Oxford English Dictionary [home, info]
  2. anchor: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
  3. anchor: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info]
  4. anchor: Cambridge International Dictionary of English [home, info]
  5. Anchor, Anchor, Anchor, Anchor, Anchor, Anchor, Anchor: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary [home, info]
  6. Anchor: Wiktionary [home, info]
  7. anchor: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
  8. anchor: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
  9. anchor: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
  10. ANCHOR(ED), Anchor, anchor: Dictionary.com [home, info]
  11. anchor: Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
  12. Anchor, anchor: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
  13. anchor: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
  14. Anchor (NLP), Anchor (album), Anchor (climbing), Anchor (disambiguation), Anchor (relay), Anchor (super mario), Anchor, The Anchor: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
  15. Anchor: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
  16. anchor: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
  17. anchor: Rhymezone [home, info]
  18. anchor: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
  19. anchor: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
  20. anchor: Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition [home, info]
  21. Anchor: 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica [home, info]
  22. anchor: Free Dictionary [home, info]
  23. anchor: Hutchinson Dictionaries [home, info]
  24. anchor: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
  25. anchor: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
  26. anchor: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
  27. anchor: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]
  28. anchor: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations [home, info]

Art dictionaries Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Anchor: Encyclopedia of Television [home, info]
  2. ANCHOR: Shakespeare Glossary [home, info]
  3. Anchor: Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms [home, info]
  4. Anchor: Dictionary of Symbolism [home, info]

Business dictionaries Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. anchor: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary [home, info]
  2. Anchor: Construction Term Glossary [home, info]
  3. ANCHOR: Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition [home, info]
  4. anchor: Legal dictionary [home, info]

Computing dictionaries Computing (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. anchor: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing [home, info]
  2. anchor: Netlingo [home, info]
  3. anchor: Hutchinson Dictionary of Computers, Multimedia, and the Internet [home, info]
  4. anchor: CNET Internet Glossary [home, info]
  5. anchor: whatis? [home, info]
  6. Anchor: Internet Terms [home, info]
  7. Anchor: Internet Terms [home, info]
  8. anchor: Webopedia [home, info]
  9. Anchor (relay), anchor: Encyclopedia [home, info]

Medicine dictionaries Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. anchor: online medical dictionary [home, info]
  2. Anchor: MT DESK Medical/Drugs/Surgical Terms [home, info]

Miscellaneous dictionaries Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Anchor: Brilliant Dream Dictionary [home, info]
  2. ANCHOR(ED), ANCHOR: Acronym Finder [home, info]
  3. ANCHOR: AbbreviationZ [home, info]

Religion dictionaries Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Anchor: Easton Bible [home, info]
  2. Anchor: Smith's Bible Dictionary [home, info]

Science dictionaries Science (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. anchor: LITTLE EXPLORERS(TM) Picture Dictionary [home, info]
  2. Anchor: Biological Sciences Dictionary [home, info]
  3. anchor: Archaeology Wordsmith [home, info]
  4. Anchor: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics [home, info]
  5. anchor: mda Archaeological Objects Thesaurus [home, info]
  6. anchor: PlanetMath Encyclopedia [home, info]
  7. anchor: How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement [home, info]

Sports dictionaries Sports (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. anchor: Mountain Bike Slang [home, info]
  2. Anchor: Backgammon [home, info]
  3. Anchor: Climbing [home, info]
  4. anchor: Hickok Sports Glossaries [home, info]
  5. ANCHOR: CAVE AND KARST TERMINOLOGY [home, info]
  6. Anchor: Glossary of mountaineering terms [home, info]
  7. anchor: Terra.org's Sailing Terms [home, info]

Tech dictionaries Tech (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. Anchor: AUTOMOTIVE TERMS [home, info]
  2. Anchor: Building pathology glossary [home, info]
  3. anchor: Construction deterioration & building durability glossary [home, info]
  4. ANCHOR: Lake and Water Word Glossary [home, info]
  5. Anchor: Popular Cross Stitch Terms [home, info]
  6. anchor: SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language [home, info]
  7. Anchor: Latitude Mexico [home, info]

Quick definitions (anchor)

noun:  a mechanical device that prevents a vessel from moving
noun:  a central cohesive source of support and stability ("Faith is his anchor")
noun:  a television reporter who coordinates a broadcast to which several correspondents contribute
verb:  secure a vessel with an anchor ("We anchored at Baltimore")
verb:  fix firmly and stably ("Anchor the lamppost in concrete")

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Phrases that include anchor:   weigh anchor, anchor light, mooring anchor, anchor hold, anchor watch, more...

Words similar to anchor:   anchored, anchoring, anchorless, anchorman, anchorperson, backbone, ground, kedge, linchpin, lynchpin, mainstay, cast anchor, drop anchor, ground tackle, moor, secure, more...


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