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| Domain | Definition |
Building & Civil Engineering | A buried plate, wall or block, some distance from a sheet pile or other retaining wall, which serves to anchor back the wall through a tie between the two. The dead man is held in place by its own weight and by passive pressure from the soil. Source: European Union. (references) |
| An essential piece of post-tensioning equipment cast into the concrete at the end of a tendon. It grips the tendon and transfers load from the steel to the concrete with the minimum of s lip. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "ANCHOR WALL"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Danish | anker (anchor), forankring (anchor block, anchor strap, anchorage, anchorage(for sheetpiling), buckstave, dead man, precision attachment, stay, tie rod). (various references) | ||||||||||
Dutch | anker (anchor, anker, armature, brace, cramp-iron), verankering (anchor, anchor block, anchor strap, anchorage, anchorage(for sheetpiling), anchoring, dead man, mooring, pinning, shoe, spud), trekanker (anchor block, anchorage, dead man). (various references) | ||||||||||
French | ancrage (anchorage), tirant (anchor block, anchorage). (various references) | ||||||||||
German | Ankertafel (anchor block, anchorage, dead man), Ankerplatte (anchor block, anchorage, dead man), Ankerkörper (anchor block, anchorage, dead man), Verankerung (anchorage, anchoring, bracing, Embedding, establishment, fixing, moorings). (various references) | ||||||||||
Greek | αγκύρωση (anchor strap, anchorage, anchorage(for sheetpiling), key, strong adhesion). (various references) | ||||||||||
Italian | ancoraggio (anchorage, berth, harborage, harbourage), tirante (tie beam). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | anchoray allway anclaje (anchorage), tirante (binder, brace, bridle, gunning, nail biting, shoulder strap, straining, strap, stringent, taut, tense, tie, tight, tighten, trace). (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-h-l-l-n-o-r-w" | |
-3 letters: chloral, narwhal. | |
-4 letters: anarch, anchor, archon, callan, callow, canola, carnal, challa, choana, cholla, choral, clonal, collar, halloa, hallow, lochan, narwal, rancho, wallah. | |
-5 letters: acorn, allow, aloha, cahow, calla, canal, carol, claro, clown, coala, coral, craal, crawl, crown, hallo, holla, horal, lahar, larch, llano, loach, local, loral, loran, nacho, narco, orach, racon, ranch, roach. | |
| 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. | |
| 1. Translations: Modern 2. Anagrams 3. Bibliography |
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