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Definition: UP ANCHOR |
UP ANCHOR1. (Naut.), the order to man the windlass preparatory to hauling up the anchor. |
Expressions using "UP ANCHOR": heave up anchor ♦ To heave up anchor. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "UP ANCHOR"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | lette anker (heave up anchor, hoist anchor, take up the anchor, weigh anchor), hive anker (heave up anchor, hoist anchor, take up the anchor, weigh anchor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | het anker opwinden (heave up anchor, hoist anchor, take up the anchor, weigh anchor), het anker opdraaien (heave up anchor, hoist anchor, take up the anchor, weigh anchor), het anker lichten (heave up anchor, hoist anchor, take up the anchor, weigh anchor), het anker inhalen (heave up anchor, hoist anchor, take up the anchor, weigh anchor), het anker hieuwen (heave up anchor, hoist anchor, take up the anchor, weigh anchor), het anker binnendraaien (heave up anchor, hoist anchor, take up the anchor, weigh anchor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Finnish | nostaa ankkuri (weigh anchor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | remonter l'ancre (heave up anchor, take up the anchor), lever l'ancre (heave up anchor, take up the anchor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | den Anker lichten (to weigh anchor), den Anker hochdrehen (heave up anchor, hoist anchor, take up the anchor, weigh anchor), den Anker hieven (heave up anchor, hoist anchor, take up the anchor, weigh anchor), den Anker heben (heave up anchor, hoist anchor, take up the anchor, weigh anchor), den Anker aufdrehen (heave up anchor, hoist anchor, take up the anchor, weigh anchor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | σηκώνω άγκυρα (heave up anchor, hoist anchor, take up the anchor, weigh anchor), ανασπώ άγκυρα (heave up anchor, hoist anchor, take up the anchor, weigh anchor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | spedare l' ncora (heave up anchor, hoist anchor, take up the anchor, weigh anchor), salpare l' ncora (heave up anchor, hoist anchor, take up the anchor, weigh anchor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | upay anchoray suspender o ferro (heave up anchor, hoist anchor, take up the anchor, weigh anchor), levantar a âncora (unmoor), içar o ferro (heave up anchor, hoist anchor, take up the anchor, weigh anchor). (various references) levar el ancla (heave up anchor, hoist anchor, take up the anchor, weigh anchor), izar el ancla (heave up anchor, hoist anchor, take up the anchor, weigh anchor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-h-n-o-p-r-u" | |
-2 letters: anchor, archon, carhop, coprah, cornua, orphan, paunch, rancho, raunch. | |
-3 letters: acorn, apron, capon, churn, copra, cornu, croup, nacho, narco, nucha, orach, parch, poach, porch, pouch, prahu, punch, racon, ranch, roach, uncap. | |
-4 letters: arch, arco, caph, capo, carn, carp, chao, chap, char, chon, chop, corn, coup, crap, crop, curn, harp, hoar, hora, horn, hour. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-h-n-o-p-r-u" | |
+2 letters: punchboard. | |
+3 letters: neuropathic, punchboards. | |
+4 letters: naturopathic, necrophagous, outpreaching, photonuclear, quadraphonic, quadriphonic, unchaperoned. | |
+5 letters: haruspication, quadraphonics, quadriphonics. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)55 50      41 4E 43 48 4F 52 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010101 01010000 00100000 01000001 01001110 01000011 01001000 01001111 01010010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)U P   A N C H O R |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0055 0050      0041 004E 0043 0048 004F 0052 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)55502354837424952 |
| 1. Definition 2. Expressions 3. Translations: Modern 4. Anagrams | 5. Orthography 6. Bibliography |
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