Betekenis van:
anchor
to anchor
Werkwoord
- voor anker leggen
- secure a vessel with an anchor
"We anchored at Baltimore"
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anchor
Zelfstandig naamwoord
- ijzeren balk om een schip stil te leggen
- a mechanical device that prevents a vessel from moving
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anchor
Zelfstandig naamwoord
- persoon die als laatste iets redigeert
- a television reporter who coordinates a broadcast to which several correspondents contribute
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Voorbeeldzinnen
- The ship dropped anchor.
- Drop the anchor!
- Every ship needs an anchor.
- The ship cast anchor at Kobe.
- The ship dropped anchor in the harbor.
- The boat is attached to the anchor by a chain.
- His mother's letters were an anchor to the boy.
- The ship is at anchor in the harbor.
- They usually use an anchor to hold a yacht in place.
- Of course Jon Stewart is America's most trusted anchor now—even our real news is a farce!
- A ship's captain must remain observant that a reliable buoy be attached to each anchor by a sturdy rope, so that one could find and raise the anchor if its anchor-cable were to be shorn apart, were to fall into the sea or were to be hewn apart.
- To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it— but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
- Of course Jon Stewart is the most trusted anchor in the United States now—even our real news is a farce!
- Anchor
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