AT ANCHOR

Definition: AT ANCHOR

AT ANCHOR

1. Anchored.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Location

Moored; Verb: at anchor.

Quiescence

Remain, stay; stand, lie to, ride at anchor, remain in situ, tarry, mark time; bring to, heave to, lay to; pull up, draw up; hold, halt; stop, stop short; rest, pause, anchor; cast to an anchor, come to an anchor; rest on one's oars; repose on one's laurels, take breath; stop; (discontinue).

Adjective: quiescent, still; motionless, moveless; fixed; stationary; immotile; at rest at a stand, at a standstill, at anchor; stock, still; standing still; Verb: sedentary, untraveled, stay-at-home; becalmed, stagnant, quiet; unmoved, undisturbed, unruffled; calm, restful; cataleptic; immovable; (stable); sleeping; (inactive); silent; still as a statue, still as a post, still as a mouse, still as death; vegetative, vegetating.

Safety

Adjective: safe, secure, sure; in safety, in security; on the safe side; under the shield of, under the shade of, under the wing of, under the shadow of one's wing; under cover, under lock and key; out of danger, out of the woods, out of the meshes, out of harm's way; unharmed, unscathed; on sure ground, at anchor, high and dry, above water; unthreatened, unmolested; protected; Verb: cavendo tutus; panoplied; (defended).

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: AT ANCHOR

View of Cuyler's Harbor with ACTIVE at anchor Sketch by William B. McMurtrie accompanying Survey H-309. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Fanciful view of Drake's Bay with the Drake's vessel, the GOLDEN HIND, at anchor Drake sailed on the California coast in 1577. In: "The Annals of San Francisco". Frank Soule, John Gihon, and James Nesbit. 1855. Frontispiece. D. Appleton & Company, New York. F869.S3.S7 1855. Credit: America's Coastlines.

The North side of Baltimore Harbor as seen from a boat at anchor. Accompanied as loose photos in the "Monthly Journal of the Engineers' Club of Baltimore" for February 1914. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Survey launch at anchor with dinghy returning from shore. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

PATHFINDER at anchor. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

A double rigged shrimp trawler with nets and otterboards hanging outboard. Vessel is at anchor. Credit: Fisheries.

Cutting bait and baiting trawls on halibut schooner at anchor On the fishing grounds Drawing by H. W. Elliott and Capt. J. W. Collins. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection.

Dories and crew on the way to haul the trawls The schooner at anchor under riding sail Drawing by H. W. Elliott and Capt. J. W. Collins. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection.

The Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship PATHFINDER at anchor in San Francisco Bay where it returned for repairs after two years in the Solomon Islands. The ship returned to see additional action in the Philippines and Okinawa. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship EXPLORER at anchor. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

He swam under water to a ship at anchor to which a boat was fastened.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "AT ANCHOR": be at anchor ♦ lie at anchor ♦ ride at anchor. Additional references.

Czech

zakotvený. (various references)

Finnish

olla ankkurissa (ride at anchor). (various references)

French

stationnement au mouillage (lying at anchor). (various references)

Greek 

είμαι αγκυροβολημένοσ (lie at anchor). (various references)

Hungarian

horgonyoz (anchor, lain, lay, to lie, to lie at anchor), horgonyon áll (to lie at anchor), horgony tartását figyeli (to tend the ship, to tend the ship at anchor). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

港に泊まる (to stay at anchor). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

みなとにとまる (to stay at anchor). (various references)

Pig Latin

atay anchoray

Romanian

fi ancorat (be at anchor, lie at anchor, ride, ride at anchor). (various references)

Russian 

стоять на якоре (be at anchor, lie at anchor, ride at anchor). (various references)

Spanish

al ancla. (various references)

Thai

หยุ�"แล่น (เรือ) (lie at anchor, lie at its moorings). (various references)

Ukrainian

на якорі. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: chantor.

-2 letters: anarch, anchor, archon, cantor, carton, choana, contra, craton, rancho.

-3 letters: acorn, actor, antra, aorta, arhat, canto, carat, chant, chart, cotan, nacho, narco, natch, north, notch, octan, orach, racon, ranch, ratan, ratch, roach, rotch, taroc, thorn, torah, torch, trona.

-4 letters: acta, anoa, anta, arch, arco, cant, carn, cart, chao, char, chat, chon, coat.

-5 letters: aah.

+2 letters: machinator.

+3 letters: anthracnose, anthropical, brachiation, machinators, thrasonical.

+4 letters: anthracnoses, archegoniate, brachiations, camphorating, chromonemata, endotracheal, hallucinator, naturopathic, noncharacter, panchromatic, pantographic, trochanteral.

+5 letters: achromatizing, anachronistic, archegoniates, authenticator, cinematograph, hallucinators, hallucinatory, haruspication, intrathoracic, noncharacters, nontheatrical, parthenocarpy, thrasonically, transthoracic.