anchor vs leave

anchor

verb
  • To stop; to fix or rest. 

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

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

  • To perform as an anchorman or anchorwoman. 

  • To cast anchor; to come to anchor. 

  • To provide emotional stability for a person in distress. 

noun
  • 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. 

  • A metal tie holding adjoining parts of a building together. 

  • A marked point in a document that can be the target of a hyperlink. 

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

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

  • That which gives stability or security. 

  • A screw anchor. 

  • 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. 

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

  • The thirty-fifth Lenormand card. 

  • A superstore or other facility that serves as a focus to bring customers into an area. 

  • One of the anchor-shaped spicules of certain sponges. 

  • The brake of a vehicle. 

  • A defensive player, especially one who counters the opposition's best offensive player. 

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

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

  • 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). 

  • The final runner in a relay race. 

  • An anchorman or anchorwoman. 

  • Representation of the nautical tool, used as a heraldic charge. 

leave

verb
  • To cause or allow (something) to remain as available; to refrain from taking (something) away; to stop short of consuming or otherwise depleting (something) entirely. 

  • To cause, to result in. 

  • To let be or do without interference. 

  • To transfer possession of after death. 

  • To give leave to; allow; permit; let; grant. 

  • To produce leaves or foliage. 

  • To put; to place; to deposit; to deliver, with a sense of withdrawing oneself. 

  • To give (something) to someone; to deliver (something) to a repository; to deposit. 

  • To depart; to go away from a certain place or state. 

  • To transfer responsibility or attention of (something) (to someone); to stop being concerned with. 

  • To depart from; to end one's connection or affiliation with. 

  • To end one's membership in (a group); to terminate one's affiliation with (an organization); to stop participating in (a project). 

noun
  • The action of the batsman not attempting to play at the ball. 

  • The arrangement of balls in play that remains after a shot is made (which determines whether the next shooter — who may be either the same player, or an opponent — has good options, or only poor ones). 

  • Permission to be absent; time away from one's work. 

  • Permission. 

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