ANCHORED

Definition: ANCHORED

ANCHORED

Adjective

1. Having the extremities turned back, like the flukes of an anchor; as, an anchored cross.

2. Held by an anchor; at anchor; held safely; as, an anchored bark; also, shaped like an anchor; forked; as, an anchored tongue.

Imperative & past participle

1. Of Anchor

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "ANCHORED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1609. (references)

Stability

Tethered, anchored, moored, at anchor, on a rock, rock solid, firm as a rock; firmly seated, firmly established; Verb: deep-rooted, ineradicable; inveterate; obstinate.

Crosswords: ANCHORED

Captain Burke, you have just anchored on poverty row (In Harm's Way; writing credit: James Bassett; Wendell Mayes)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Anchored in the Storm: Faith at Work in the Trials of Life (reference)

• Anchored Nowhere : A Navy Wife's Story (reference)

• Anchored Yesterdays: The Log Book of Savannah's Voyage Across a Georgia Century in Ten Watches (reference)

• Brothers Together: Lessons Learned That Have Anchored Our Souls! [LARGE PRINT] (reference)

• Lushootseed Culture and the Shamanic Odyssey: An Anchored Radiance (reference)

  (more book examples)

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The BLAKE anchored off WINDWARD Passage George Belknap shipped Thomson piano wire machine to BLAKE in 1875 Charles Sigsbee modified Thomson machine Sigsbee sounding machine was the standard for many years. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Survey launch on FAIRWEATHER at sunset while anchored in Wide Bay. Credit: America's Coastlines.

A shrimp boat anchored near the cane brakes. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Launch 15 with a navigation buoy ready to be anchored offshore Guided Navy LST's to Oliktok Point Camp. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Anchored launches silhouetted in a late summer sunset. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

NOAA Ship DAVID STARR JORDAN anchored off Island near Colombia. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Anchored at Algiers, Algeria, circa late 1923. Credit: NAVY.

Battleships anchored in the Hudson River, off 145th Street, New York City, during the celebration. Photograph by Thaddeus Wilkerson, 522 W. 145th St., New York, reproduced on a postal card. Ships present are (from left to right): USS Louisiana (Battleship # 19); USS Idaho (Battleship # 24); USS Kansas (Battleship # 21); USS Vermont (Battleship # 20); and USS Connecticut (Battleship # 18). Identification on the first two listed is certain. That on the last three is probable. Credit: NAVY.

The gigantic ocean-going fleet submarine, the V-4, anchored at the Washington Navy Yard. Credit: Library of Congress.

Lifeline below Rome--amphibious "ducks" scoot to and from a cargo ship anchored off Anzio, laden with supplies for the Allied troops ashore. A barrage balloon swings over the ship to protect it from dive bombers. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Health

During a simple operation, this electrical device is placed under the skin. A lead extends from the device to the right side of the heart, where it is permanently anchored. (references)

Economic History

Chile

These malls are anchored by one or two large department stores surrounded by specialty stores or boutiques. (references)

Vietnam

The Saigon Superbowl in Ho Chi Minh City, the nation's first large-scale entertainment and retail center, only opened in 1996. French hypermart developer CORA has opened a complex anchored by its flagship megastore in Dong Nai Province which is mobbed on weekends by shoppers from Ho Chi Minh City and the surrounding provinces. (references)

Political Economy

Uk

The exceptionally close and productive Anglo-American "special relationship" is anchored by a long-standing and vibrant political and security purpose, common values, close trade and investment links, and a shared cultural heritage. (references)

Political Rights

Poland

The Government formed after free and fair elections in 1997 was a two-party coalition composed of the center-right Solidarity Electoral Action (AWS) party anchored by the Solidarity Labor Union and the Centrist Freedom Union (UW), also with origins in Solidarity. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "ANCHORED": anchored dune ♦ anchored load ♦ anchored tree protection ♦ anchored tree revetment ♦ be anchored. Additional references.

Ending with "ANCHORED": rope-anchored.

Albanian

i ankoruar. (various references)

Bulgarian 

упован, закотвен. (various references)

Chinese 

停住 (Anchoring). (various references)

Danish

forankret. (various references)

Dutch

anker (voor), gepenetreerd. (various references)

Finnish

ankkurissa oleva. (various references)

French

ancrai, ancrés, ancrées, ancrée, ancré, ancrèrent, mouillé. (various references)

German

Verankert (anchors), ankerten. (various references)

Greek 

σταθερή θίνη (anchored dune, established dune, fixed dune, stabilized dune), μια διαταραχή ολίσθησης εμφανίζεται σε ένα σημείο του επιπέδου ολίσθησης της όπου η γραμμή διαταραχής αποκλίνει προς ένα σύστημα ολίσθηση (a slip dislocation is anchored to the point in its slip plane where the line turns out of the plane into some immobile orientation), η μέθοδος κλισιομετρήσεως πάνω σε τεντωμένο συρματόσχοινο χρησιμοποιείται με επιτυχία για τη συγκράτηση,πάνω από σταθερό σημείο,ενός πλω� (whether they are dynamically positioned or anchored conventionally), ακίνητη θίνη (anchored dune, established dune, fixed dune, stabilized dune), οι κινητές εξέδρες είναι:τα αγκυροβολημένα πλοία κατά τις επιχειρήσεις γεωτρήσεως,οι αυτοανυψωνόμενες εξέδρες ή JACK-UP,εξέδρες,οι οποίες συ� (mobile platforms include:boats anchored during drilling operations(drillships);jack-up, platforms composed of a caisson forming a deck and supported by legs which can be raised or lowered to the sea bed;and the so-called semi-submersible type), οι αρθρωτές εξέδρες με μία ή δύο αρθρώσεις και οι εξέδρες με τεντωμένα συρματόσχοινα δεν είναι σταθερές σε σχέση με τον πυθμένα (platforms with one or two articulations are anchored, tension leg platforms and articulated), οποιοδήποτε και αν είναι το σύστημα αποθηκεύσεως στη θάλασσα,πρέπει να προβλέψουμε έναν ή περισσότερους σταθμούς φορτώσεως π.χ.πλωτές σημ� (which will be a single-point mooring buoy anchored to the sea bed). (various references)

Hungarian

lehorgonyzott, horony alakú. (various references)

Italian

ancora (all), fissato (appends, arranged, clamps, cleats, defining, determined, determining, fixed, set, settled). (various references)

Korean 

정박하는 (Harbored). (various references)

Manx

staikit (staked), raadey (anchorage, give way, ride), ny lhie ec acker (hove to), kianglt (baled, connected, constipated, constrained, costive, locked, secured, shackled, slurred, strapped, tied, tied up), akerit. (various references)

Pig Latin

anchoreday.(various references)

Portuguese

leal (brave, devoted, fair, faithful, frank, gallant, guileless, honest, loyal, open-hearted, simple-hearted, sincere, soldierly, sportsmanlike, sporty, staunch, true, true-blue, true-hearted, trustworthy, trusty), fiel (church-goer, faithful, loyal, pointer, retentive, single-hearted, staunch, true, true-blue, trustworthy, trusty, truthful, unswerving), exato (accurate, clean-cut, clean-fingered, clock-work, close, correct, definite, determinate, even, exact, faithful, incorrupt, just, literal, mathematical, pinpoint, precise, precision, prompt, proper, punctual, rigourous, scrupulous, sharp, stringent, trustworthy, truthful, unerring, well-defined), correto (accurate, all right, clean-fingered, correct, genteel, gentlemanlike, incorrupt, o.k., ok, okay, okey, okeydokey, proper, seemly, sportsmanlike, sporty, true). (various references)

Russian 

стоящий на якоре, фиксировать (enter up, etch in, fix), верный (devoted, faithful, faithfull, loyal, right, sure-fire, tried, true, trusty, truthful, unerring, unfailing), надежный (calculable, copper-bottomed, dependable, durable, fail-safe, foolproof, infallible, never-failing, reliable, responsible, right-on, safe, secure, sound, sure-fire, tried, trouble-free, trustworthy, trusty, unmisgiving). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

usidren. (various references)

Spanish

anclado (anchors). (various references)

Swedish

stabiliserad dyn (anchored dune, established dune, fixed dune, stabilized dune). (various references)

Turkish

demirli (chalybeate, ferr-, ferreous, ferri-, ferriferous, ferro-, ferrous, ferruginous, irony). (various references)

Vietnamese 

tả neo hình mỏ neo, đậu (pease). (various references)

Derivations

Words ending with "ANCHORED": coanchored, unanchored. (additional references)

Misspellings

"ANCHORED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Achord, Anacharis, anchore, Anchouey, Anghared, aynhoreh, enchore, Inphormed. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: endarch, ranched, roached.

-2 letters: acnode, anchor, arched, archon, candor, canoed, cedarn, chador, chared, chorea, chored, cohead, cornea, corned, craned, dancer, deacon, dehorn, drench, echard, hadron, harden, horned, nacred, ochrea, ochred, orache, rancho.

-3 letters: ached, acned, acorn, acred, adore, adorn, anode, arced, cadre, caned, caner, canoe, cared, cedar, chard, chare, chord, chore, coden, coder.

+1 letter: chlordane.

+2 letters: achondrite, archdeacon, chaperoned, chlordanes, coanchored, decahedron, encroached, octahedron, scherzando, unanchored.

+3 letters: achondrites, archdeacons, chlorinated, decahedrons, diachronies, icosahedron, octahedrons, scherzandos.

+4 letters: adrenochrome, archdeaconry, archdiocesan, candleholder, dechlorinate, dodecahedron, endochondral, endotracheal, henceforward, hydromancies, icosahedrons, perichondral, perichondria, rhabdomancer, shortchanged, unchaperoned.

+5 letters: adrenochromes, candleholders, cephaloridine, commandership, dechlorinated, dechlorinates, dodecahedrons, hydromagnetic, rhabdomancers, rhabdomancies, thenceforward, thermodynamic, unchlorinated.