Reporter vs. Anchor
Difference Between Reporter and Anchor
Reporternoun
Someone or something that reports.
The reporters of important security bugs may be paid a bounty by the software developer.Anchornoun
(nautical) A tool used to moor a vessel to the bottom of a sea or river to resist movement.
Reporternoun
A journalist who investigates, edits and reports news stories for newspapers, radio and television.
Anchornoun
(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).
Reporternoun
A person who records and issues official reports of judicial or legislative proceedings.
Anchornoun
(nautical) The combined anchoring gear (anchor, rode, bill/peak and fittings such as bitts, cat, and windlass.)
Reporternoun
(legal) A case reporter; a bound volume of printed legal opinions from a particular jurisdiction.
Anchornoun
(heraldry) Representation of the nautical tool, used as a heraldic charge.
Reporternoun
(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.
Anchornoun
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.
Reporternoun
a person who investigates and reports or edits news stories
Anchornoun
(Internet) A marked point in a document that can be the target of a hyperlink.
Anchornoun
(television) An anchorman or anchorwoman.
Anchornoun
(athletics) The final runner in a relay race.
Anchornoun
(archery) A point that is touched by the draw hand or string when the bow is fully drawn and ready to shoot.
Anchornoun
(economics) A superstore or other facility that serves as a focus to bring customers into an area.
Anchornoun
(figurative) That which gives stability or security.
Anchornoun
(architecture) A metal tie holding adjoining parts of a building together.
Anchornoun
(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.
Anchornoun
One of the anchor-shaped spicules of certain sponges.
Anchornoun
One of the calcareous spinules of certain holothurians, as in species of Synapta.
Anchornoun
(cartomancy) The thirty-fifth Lenormand card.
Anchornoun
(obsolete) An anchorite or anchoress.
Anchorverb
To connect an object, especially a ship or a boat, to a fixed point.
Anchorverb
To cast anchor; to come to anchor.
Our ship (or the captain) anchored in the stream.Anchorverb
To stop; to fix or rest.
Anchorverb
To provide emotional stability for a person in distress.
Anchorverb
To perform as an anchorman or anchorwoman.
Anchorverb
To be stuck; to be unable to move away from a position.
Anchornoun
a mechanical device that prevents a vessel from moving
Anchornoun
a central cohesive source of support and stability;
faith is his anchorthe keystone of campaign reform was the ban on soft moneyhe is the linchpin of this firmAnchornoun
a television reporter who coordinates a broadcast to which several correspondents contribute
Anchorverb
fix firmly and stably;
anchor the lamppost in concreteAnchorverb
secure a vessel with an anchor;
We anchored at Baltimore
