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Anchoring

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

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📖 Definitions of "Anchoring"

verb

1
To connect an object, especially a ship or a boat, to a fixed point.
2
To cast anchor; to come to anchor.
"Our ship (or the captain) anchored in the stream."
3
To stop; to fix or rest.
4
To provide emotional stability for a person in distress.

noun

1
The act or means by which something is anchored or made firm.
2
The tendency of people to place subsequently refined answers to a given question close to the initially estimated answer, giving unduly weight to the initial answer, such as adjusting the initial estimate of "20%" to "30%" when "90%" would be more appropriate.

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Anchoring"

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Word	Definition
ground tacklenoun	(nautical) Equipment, such as anchors, cables, or windlasses, for mooring a vessel away from a pier or other fixed moorings.
cast anchorverb	(nautical) To drop anchor or otherwise moor a ship.
drop anchorverb	(nautical) To release the anchor of a ship or boat, allowing it to fall to the bed of a body of water and thereby securing the vessel in place.
linchpinnoun	(figuratively) A central cohesive source of stability and security; a person or thing that is critical to a system or organisation.
groundnoun	The surface of the Earth, as opposed to the sky or water or underground.
lynchpinnoun	Alternative form of linchpin. [A pin inserted through holes at the end of an axle or shaft, so as to secure a wheel or shaft-mounted device.]
anchormannoun	(television, radio) The main host of a television or radio program, particularly one relating to the broadcast of news.
anchorpersonnoun	The primary reporter on a television news broadcast.
mainstaynoun	A chief support.
backbonenoun	(countable) The series of vertebrae, separated by disks, that encloses and protects the spinal cord, and runs down the middle of the back in vertebrate animals.
mooringnoun	A place to moor a vessel.
berthagenoun	A place for mooring vessels in a dock or harbor.
anchoragenoun	(nautical) A harbor, river, or offshore area that can accommodate a ship at anchor, either for quarantine, queuing, or discharge.
berthingnoun	(nautical) An instance of a ship being brought to be berthed, to rest at some docking facility.
berthnoun	(by extension) A place on a vessel to sleep, especially a bed on the side of a cabin.
entrenchmentnoun	The process of entrenching or something which entrenches
cribbingnoun	An act of plagiarism.
footholdnoun	(by extension) A secure position from which it is difficult to be dislodged.
pegnoun	A cylindrical wooden or metal object used to fasten or as a bearing between objects.
mountnoun	A hill or mountain.