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Reporter vs. Anchor

Reporter and Anchor Definitions

Reporter

A writer, investigator, or presenter of news stories.

Anchor

(Nautical) A heavy object attached to a vessel by a cable, rope, or chain and dropped into the water to keep the vessel in place either by its weight or by its flukes, which grip the bottom.

Reporter

A volume containing the published opinions of a court.

Anchor

A rigid point of support, as for securing a rope.

Reporter

A court official who records the proceedings in a trial or hearing.

Anchor

A source of security or stability.
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Reporter

A person who makes and issues the official accounts or records of the proceedings of a court.

Anchor

An athlete, usually the strongest member of a team, who performs the last stage of a relay race or other competition.

Reporter

Someone or something that reports.
The reporters of important security bugs may be paid a bounty by the software developer.

Anchor

The person at the end of a tug-of-war team.

Reporter

A journalist who investigates, edits and reports news stories for newspapers, radio and television.

Anchor

An anchorperson.
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Reporter

A person who records and issues official reports of judicial or legislative proceedings.

Anchor

To secure (a vessel) with an anchor.

Reporter

(legal) A case reporter; a bound volume of printed legal opinions from a particular jurisdiction.

Anchor

To secure with a fastener or similar device
Bolts anchoring the deck to the house.

Reporter

(biology) A gene attached by a researcher to a regulatory sequence of another gene of interest, typically used as an indication of whether a certain gene has been taken up by or expressed in the cell or organism population.

Anchor

To cause to be fixed in place; fix or immobilize
Fear anchoring him in the dark hallway.
Mussels anchoring themselves to a rock.
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Reporter

One who reports.
Of our tales judge and reportour.

Anchor

To cause to feel attached or secure
Memories anchoring us to our home town.

Reporter

A person who investigates and reports or edits news stories

Anchor

To provide a basis for; establish or found
"innovative cuisines firmly anchored in tradition" (Gourmet Magazine).

Anchor

(Sports) To serve as an anchor for (a team or competition)
Anchor a relay race.

Anchor

To narrate or coordinate (a newscast).

Anchor

To provide or form an anchor store for
Two major stores anchor each end of the shopping mall.

Anchor

(Nautical) To drop anchor or lie at anchor.

Anchor

(nautical) A tool used to moor a vessel to the bottom of a sea or river to resist movement.

Anchor

(nautical) An iron device so shaped as to grip the bottom and hold a vessel at her berth by the chain or rope attached. (FM 55-501).

Anchor

(nautical) The combined anchoring gear (anchor, rode, bill/peak and fittings such as bitts, cat, and windlass.)

Anchor

(heraldry) Representation of the nautical tool, used as a heraldic charge.

Anchor

Any instrument serving a purpose like that of a ship's anchor, such as an arrangement of timber to hold a dam fast; a device to hold the end of a bridge cable etc.; or a device used in metalworking to hold the core of a mould in place.

Anchor

(Internet) A marked point in a document that can be the target of a hyperlink.

Anchor

(television) An anchorman or anchorwoman.

Anchor

(athletics) The final runner in a relay race.

Anchor

(archery) A point that is touched by the draw hand or string when the bow is fully drawn and ready to shoot.

Anchor

(economics) A superstore or other facility that serves as a focus to bring customers into an area.
Anchor tenant

Anchor

(figurative) That which gives stability or security.

Anchor

(architecture) A metal tie holding adjoining parts of a building together.

Anchor

(US) A screw anchor.

Anchor

(architecture) Carved work, somewhat resembling an anchor or arrowhead; part of the ornaments of certain mouldings. It is seen in the echinus, or egg-and-anchor (called also egg-and-dart, egg-and-tongue) ornament.

Anchor

One of the anchor-shaped spicules of certain sponges.

Anchor

One of the calcareous spinules of certain holothurians, as in species of Synapta.

Anchor

(cartomancy) The thirty-fifth Lenormand card.

Anchor

(obsolete) An anchorite or anchoress.

Anchor

(slang) The brake of a vehicle.

Anchor

(soccer) A defensive player, especially one who counters the opposition's best offensive player.

Anchor

(climbing) A device for attaching a climber at the top of a climb, such as a chain or ring or a natural feature.

Anchor

Alternative form of anker

Anchor

To connect an object, especially a ship or a boat, to a fixed point.

Anchor

To cast anchor; to come to anchor.
Our ship (or the captain) anchored in the stream.

Anchor

To stop; to fix or rest.

Anchor

To provide emotional stability for a person in distress.

Anchor

To perform as an anchorman or anchorwoman.

Anchor

To be stuck; to be unable to move away from a position.

Anchor

A iron instrument which is attached to a ship by a cable (rope or chain), and which, being cast overboard, lays hold of the earth by a fluke or hook and thus retains the ship in a particular station.

Anchor

Any instrument or contrivance serving a purpose like that of a ship's anchor, as an arrangement of timber to hold a dam fast; a contrivance to hold the end of a bridge cable, or other similar part; a contrivance used by founders to hold the core of a mold in place.

Anchor

Fig.: That which gives stability or security; that on which we place dependence for safety.
Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul.

Anchor

An emblem of hope.

Anchor

A metal tie holding adjoining parts of a building together.

Anchor

One of the anchor-shaped spicules of certain sponges; also, one of the calcareous spinules of certain Holothurians, as in species of Synapta.

Anchor

An achorman, anchorwoman, or anchorperson.

Anchor

An anchoret.

Anchor

To place at anchor; to secure by an anchor; as, to anchor a ship.

Anchor

To fix or fasten; to fix in a stable condition; as, to anchor the cables of a suspension bridge.
Till that my nails were anchored in thine eyes.

Anchor

To cast anchor; to come to anchor; as, our ship (or the captain) anchored in the stream.

Anchor

To stop; to fix or rest.
My invention . . . anchors on Isabel.

Anchor

A mechanical device that prevents a vessel from moving

Anchor

A central cohesive source of support and stability;
Faith is his anchor
The keystone of campaign reform was the ban on soft money
He is the linchpin of this firm

Anchor

A television reporter who coordinates a broadcast to which several correspondents contribute

Anchor

Fix firmly and stably;
Anchor the lamppost in concrete

Anchor

Secure a vessel with an anchor;
We anchored at Baltimore

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