anchor vs open

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. 

open

verb
  • To turn on; to switch on. 

  • To move to a position allowing fluid to flow. 

  • To bring up, broach. 

  • To make accessible to customers or clients. 

  • To bet before any other player has in a particular betting round in a game of poker. 

  • To spread; to expand into an open or loose position. 

  • To move to a position preventing electricity from flowing. 

  • To become open. 

  • To make something accessible or allow for passage by moving from a shut position. 

  • To enter upon, begin. 

  • To make (an open space, etc.) by clearing away an obstacle or obstacles, in order to allow for passage, access, or visibility. 

  • To begin a side's innings as one of the first two batsmen. 

  • To make (a bed) ready for a patient by folding back the bedcovers. 

  • To start (a campaign). 

  • To begin conducting business. 

  • To reveal one's hand. 

  • To load into memory for viewing or editing. 

noun
  • Open or unobstructed space; an exposed location. 

  • Public knowledge or scrutiny; full view. 

  • The act of something being opened, such as an e-mail message. 

  • A defect in an electrical circuit preventing current from flowing. 

  • A sports event in which anybody can compete. 

adj
  • Not fulfilled. 

  • Made public, usable with a free licence and without proprietary components. 

  • Having a free variable. 

  • Having component words separated by spaces, as opposed to being joined together or hyphenated; for example, time slot as opposed to timeslot or time-slot. 

  • Public 

  • Mild (of the weather); free from frost or snow. 

  • With open access, of open science, or both. 

  • Candid, ingenuous, not subtle in character. 

  • Resulting from an incision, puncture or any other process by which the skin no longer protects an internal part of the body. 

  • In current use; mapped to part of memory. 

  • Of a note, played without pressing the string against the fingerboard. 

  • Actively conducting or prepared to conduct business. 

  • Able to have something pass through or along it. 

  • not covered, showing what is inside 

  • To be in a position preventing electricity from flowing. 

  • Uttered, as a consonant, with the oral passage simply narrowed without closure. 

  • Source code of a computer program that is not within the text of a macro being generated. 

  • To be in a position allowing fluid to flow. 

  • Of a note, played without closing any finger-hole, key or valve. 

  • Able to be accessed (physically). 

  • Uttered with a relatively wide opening of the articulating organs; said of vowels. 

  • That ends in a vowel; not having a coda. 

  • Not physically drawn together, closed, folded or contracted; extended. 

  • Receptive. 

  • Which is part of a predefined collection of subsets of X, that defines a topological space on X. 

  • Written or sent with the intention that it may made public or referred to at any trial, rather than by way of confidential private negotiation for a settlement. 

  • Not settled or adjusted; not decided or determined; not closed or withdrawn from consideration. 

  • Not of a quality to prevent communication, as by closing waterways, blocking roads, etc.; hence, not frosty or inclement; mild; used of the weather or the climate. 

  • Whose first and last vertices are different. 

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