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UP ANCHOR

Definition: UP ANCHOR

UP ANCHOR

1. (Naut.), the order to man the windlass preparatory to hauling up the anchor.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Expressions: UP ANCHOR

Expressions using "UP ANCHOR": heave up anchor To heave up anchor. Additional references.

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

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Modern Translation: UP ANCHOR

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

   

Portuguese

  

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)

   

Spanish

  

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)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: UP ANCHOR

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.

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Alternative Orthography: UP ANCHOR


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

55 50      41 4E 43 48 4F 52

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010101 01010000 00100000 01000001 01001110 01000011 01001000 01001111 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#85 &#80 &#32 &#65 &#78 &#67 &#72 &#79 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0055 0050      0041 004E 0043 0048 004F 0052

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

55502354837424952

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Expressions
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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