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Definition: ANCHORING |
ANCHORINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Anchor |
Date "ANCHORING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1594. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Building & Civil Engineering | The attachment or insetting of a channel structure into the bed or the bank of a stream. Source: European Union. (references) |
Engineering & Technology | To hold in place by securing firmly(mechanical process). Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: ANCHORING |
| English words defined with "ANCHORING": anchorage ♦ offing ♦ Soft-shelled crabs ♦ Venus's basket. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "ANCHORING": Adherens Junctions, aerial spud ♦ cell adhesion ♦ ending fitting, explosively anchored rockbolt ♦ Focal Adhesions ♦ Hemidesmosomes ♦ LINE INSTALLER, STREET RAILWAY, line installer, trolley ♦ machinist helper, marine, MACHINIST HELPER, OUTSIDE, MECHANICAL-TEST TECHNICIAN ♦ Samson stripper. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Coast and Geodetic Survey Steamer BLAKE In service 1874-1905 Atlantic service Classic Gulf Stream studies, many instrument innovations Pioneered deepsea anchoring. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Grab sampler being deployed Bottom sampling in support of nautical charting Determination of bottom characteristics for anchoring. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Steam winch with steel wire Steel wire for deepsea dredging was first used on the BLAKE The result of collaboration between Charles D. Sigsbee and Alexander Agassiz First use of steel wire for dredging, first deep ocean anchoring Agassiz transferred steel cable mining technology to oceanography. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Navy reservists shuttling survey crew's annual supplies ashore with "Water Buffalo" from an LST of the Barrow Expedition (BAREX). Shallow water necessitated anchoring offshore. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | Crewmen slip anchor stoppers in preparation for anchoring. On the order "let go", the anchor detail will knock out the single remaining stopper with a sledge hammer, starting the anchor on its way. Pittsburgh is at the Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, Washington, during her initial post-reactivation trials, circa September 1951. She was recommissioned on 25 September. Credit: NAVY. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "ANCHORING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 85.19% of the time. "ANCHORING" is used about 54 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 85.19% | 46 | 50,285 |
| Noun (singular) | 11.11% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 3.7% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 54 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "ANCHORING": anchoring-ground, anchoring-place. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
anchoring | 24 |
anchoring system | 9 |
boat anchoring | 7 |
anchoring concrete fastening masonry product quality steel | 5 |
anchoring columbia in river | 4 |
anchoring nlp | 3 |
anchoring concrete | 3 |
anchoring halfen system | 3 |
anchoring cement | 2 |
anchoring technique | 2 |
anchoring activity | 2 |
anchoring tip | 2 |
anchoring a swing set | 2 |
adjustment anchoring heuristic | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "ANCHORING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 停住 (Anchored). (various references) | |
Danish | ankring med to ankre (anchoring with two anchors), traekanker (anchoring rod, longitudinal stay, tie bolt, tie-rod). (various references) | |
Dutch | verankering (anchor, anchor block, anchor strap, anchor wall, anchorage, anchorage(for sheetpiling), dead man, mooring, pinning, shoe, spud). (various references) | |
French | ancrant, ancrage (anchorage), encastrement. (various references) | |
German | Verankerung (anchorage), ankernd. (various references) | |
Greek | αγκυροβολία (anchorage). (various references) | |
Hebrew | עגינה (anchorage, mooring), עגון (picketing). (various references) | |
Hungarian | lehorgonyzás (anchorage), horgonyvetés. (various references) | |
Italian | ancoraggio (anchorage), ammorsamento (keying, keying-in). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 仮泊 (emergency anchoring). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | かはく (emergency anchoring, one's lines, remarks, speech, words). (various references) | |
Korean | 정박 (Harboring). (various references) | |
Manx | akeragh (anchorite). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | anchoringay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | ancoragem (anchorage, lashing, moorage). (various references) | |
Romanian | ancorare (anchorage). (various references) | |
Spanish | anclaje (anchorage), empotramiento (bedding into stone of concrete, clamping, constraining, embedding, encasing, fixing, fixity, housing, keying, keying-in). (various references) | |
Swedish | förankring (abutment, anchorage). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | якірне місце (anchoring-ground, anchoring-place). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "ANCHORING": coanchoring, unanchoring. (additional references) | |
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"ANCHORING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: enchoying. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "ANCHORING" (pronounced a"ngkering) |
| 6 | a" ng k er i ng | hankering. |
| 5 | -ng k er i ng | conquering, hunkering, tinkering. |
| 4 | -k er i ng | bickering, brokering, dickering, flickering, massacring, snickering. |
| 3 | -er i ng | answering, administering, altering, angering, auguring, backfiring, badgering, bantering, bartering, battering, belaboring, beleaguering, bettering, bewildering, blistering, blundering, blustering, bolstering, bordering, bothering, butchering, capturing, catering, censoring, centering, chartering, chattering, clamoring, clobbering, clustering, cluttering, coloring, configuring, conjuring, considering, cornering, countering, covering, cowering, culturing, deciphering, delivering, desiring, devouring, diapering, differing, discovering, disfavoring, disfiguring, dismembering, dithering, doctoring, doddering, embroidering, empowering, encountering, endangering, endeavoring, entering, factoring, faltering, fathering, favoring, feathering, featuring, festering, figuring, filibustering, filtering, fingering, flattering, flavoring, floundering, flowering, fluttering, fostering, foundering, fracturing, frittering, furthering, garnering, gathering, gerrymandering, gesturing, glimmering, glittering, glowering, grandfathering, guttering, hammering, hampering, harboring, hectoring, hindering, hollering, honoring, hovering, hungering, injuring, inquiring, laboring, laundering, lawyering, layering, lecturing, lettering, levering, lingering, littering, loitering, lowering, lumbering, majoring, maneuvering, manufacturing, mastering, maundering, meandering, measuring, mentoring, metering, minoring, mirroring, mitering, mongering, monitoring, mothering, motoring, murdering, murmuring, mustering, muttering, nattering, neighboring, neutering, nonmanufacturing, numbering, nurturing, offering, ordering, outnumbering, pampering, pandering, papering, partnering, peppering, perjuring, pestering, petering, philandering, picturing, pilfering, plastering, plundering, pondering, posturing, powdering, powering, pressuring, proffering, prospering, puncturing, puttering, quivering, recapturing, reconsidering, recovering, rediscovering, reentering, registering, rejiggering, remembering, rendering, reoffering, reordering, requiring, restructuring, rewiring, rupturing, savoring, scampering, scattering, scouring, sculpturing, sequestering, severing, shattering, sheltering, shimmering, shivering, shouldering, showering, shuddering, shuttering, simmering, slaughtering, slithering, slobbering, slumbering, smattering, smoldering, smothering, sobering, soldering, soldiering, souring, spattering, spiering, splintering, sponsoring, sputtering, squandering, staggering, structuring, stuttering, suffering, surrendering, swaggering, sweltering, tailoring, tampering, tapering, teetering, tempering, tendering, thundering, torturing, tottering, towering, transpiring, triggering, tutoring, uncovering, unflattering, unwavering, ushering, uttering, venturing, wagering, wallpapering, wandering, warmongering, watering, wavering, weathering, whimpering, whispering, withering, wondering, Wuthering, zippering. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-g-h-i-n-n-o-r" | |
-1 letter: ranching, roaching. | |
-2 letters: arching, chagrin, charing, chignon, choragi, choring, corning, craning, crannog, horning, ochring, organic. | |
-3 letters: aching, agonic, anchor, archon, arcing, caning, caring, coning, coring, garcon, grinch, haring, honing, inarch, oaring, onagri, orgiac, origan, racing, rancho. | |
-4 letters: acing, acorn, ancon, anion, argon, cairn, canon, cargo, chain, chair, chang, chiao, china, chino, chiro, choir, cigar. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-g-h-i-n-n-o-r" | |
+2 letters: chaperoning, coanchoring, encroaching, unanchoring. | |
+3 letters: chlorinating. | |
+4 letters: anthropogenic, shortchanging. | |
+5 letters: countershading, dechlorinating, organochlorine. | |
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