What's the difference between anchor and linchpin?

Anchor


Definition:

  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) Fig.: That which gives stability or security; that on which we place dependence for safety.
  • (n.) An emblem of hope.
  • (n.) A metal tie holding adjoining parts of a building together.
  • (n.) Carved work, somewhat resembling an anchor or arrowhead; -- a part of the ornaments of certain moldings. It is seen in the echinus, or egg-and-anchor (called also egg-and-dart, egg-and-tongue) ornament.
  • (n.) One of the anchor-shaped spicules of certain sponges; also, one of the calcareous spinules of certain Holothurians, as in species of Synapta.
  • (v. t.) To place at anchor; to secure by an anchor; as, to anchor a ship.
  • (v. t.) To fix or fasten; to fix in a stable condition; as, to anchor the cables of a suspension bridge.
  • (v. i.) To cast anchor; to come to anchor; as, our ship (or the captain) anchored in the stream.
  • (v. i.) To stop; to fix or rest.
  • (n.) An anchoret.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The haplotype of the recombinant X chromosome of each of 241 backcross progeny has been established using the X-linked anchor loci Otc, Hprt, Dmd, Pgk-1, and Amg and the additional probes DXSmh43 and Cbx-rs1.
  • (2) The popularly used procedure in Great Britain is that in which a sheet of Ivalon sponge is sutured to the sacrum and wrapped around the rectum thus anchoring it in place.
  • (3) The company also confirmed on Thursday as it launched its sports pay-TV offering at its new broadcasting base in the Olympic Park in Stratford, east London, that former BBC presenter Jake Humphrey will anchor its Premier League coverage.
  • (4) Since the introduction of osseointegrated titanium implants for bone-anchored facial and dental prostheses, an increasing number of irradiated patients are being treated with this technique.
  • (5) The brain enzyme did not contain components characteristic of the glycolipid anchors of erythrocyte acetylcholinesterases.
  • (6) Our findings support the proposal that bcd transcripts are selectively recognized and trapped as they enter the anterior tip of the oocyte, and suggest that this localization process is mediated by anchored sequence-specific receptors in the oocyte cytoplasm.
  • (7) Sanders, the Vermont senator and self-described democratic socialist, first answered questions from Fox News anchor Bret Baier over his comments in Sunday’s debate that white people “don’t know what it’s like to be living in a ghetto”.
  • (8) A truncated anchor-minus form of the G2 glycoprotein was found to be secreted into the culture medium, but was retained in the Golgi complex when coexpressed with the G1 glycoprotein.
  • (9) Major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class 1 molecules that were either transmembrane- (H-2Db) or glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI)-anchored (Qa2) were labeled with antibody-coated gold particles and moved across the cell surface with a laser optical tweezers until they encountered a barrier, the barrier-free path length (BFP).
  • (10) This lipid has a hybrid nature of an archaeal feature in alkyl glycerol diether core portion and an eucaryal feature in the polar head group identical to the conserved core structure (GlcNp(alpha 1-6)-myo-inositol 1-phosphate) of glycosylated phosphatidylinositol which serves as a membrane protein anchor in eucaryal cells.
  • (11) Ultrastructurally these glands had apical microvilli with associated glycocalyx and long anchoring rootlets.
  • (12) This was confirmed by the crystal structures, which also showed that the Gln46 amide is hydrogen bonded to the Phe100 N and O atoms, and tightly anchored in this position.
  • (13) Each of the two chemically identical subunits folds into a three-layer domain anchored by a large six-stranded mixed beta sheet.
  • (14) A group of proteins anchored to the cell by phosphatidylinositol (PI) has recently been identified.
  • (15) In conclusion, the N-linked sugar chains are not required for in vitro activity but required for in vivo activity, acting as anchors for the essential terminal sialic acids.
  • (16) Replacement of the COOH-terminal hydrophobic domain with a signal peptide that normally functions in membrane translocation, or with a random hydrophobic sequence, results in efficient and correct processing, producing GPI-anchored DAF on the cell surface.
  • (17) Since the corresponding keto analogue, N-[(R)-2-benzyl-5-cyano-4-oxopentanyl]-L-phenylalanine (compound 4), does not inactivate the enzyme, it is suggested that the NH in compound 1 is critical for the proper active-site anchoring of the inhibitor for the inactivation process to take place.
  • (18) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Donald Trump questions US citizenship of ‘anchor babies’.
  • (19) This tissue may anchor the lead so that it is difficult, dangerous, or impossible to remove it.
  • (20) The anchoring wire can also be retracted and repositioned.

Linchpin


Definition:

  • (n.) A pin used to prevent the wheel of a vehicle from sliding off the axletree.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Ferdinand says the state of Louis van Gaal’s defence is such that Stones would immediately become its linchpin but that the former Barnsley player may not be ready to dislodge John Terry or Gary Cahill from Chelsea’s backline.
  • (2) He might have done many more if he wasn’t a multi-millionaire and a linchpin of the economy in his home state of Nevada.
  • (3) His criteria for determining the national interest, the stated linchpin of his decision-making about launching a war, went unarticulated.
  • (4) Over the weekend, business leaders spoke to German newspapers to back Cryan’s efforts to turn around Deutsche, which is a linchpin of the national economy.
  • (5) While the congregation has been shrinking in recent years, United in Christ is a linchpin for the community offering free food on Wednesday afternoons.
  • (6) According to the New York Times , the American middle class – the linchpin of the country's phenomenal postwar economic growth – can no longer call itself the richest in the world.
  • (7) Insiders who spoke to the Journal allege that out of the 240 kinds of tests it currently performs, the “pinprick” technology lauded as the linchpin of their strategy was only used for a tiny fraction of its testing .
  • (8) Gareth Barry, one of the linchpins of the previous era, was not even on the bench.
  • (9) The current study provides a linchpin between the studies of adolescent suicide attempt rates and the studies reporting on percentages of adolescents who made suicide attempts.
  • (10) He also defended his record as mayor, which has been a linchpin of his potential presidential bid, while linking the recent events to a broader societal critique.
  • (11) Despite her reputation as an art house linchpin, Swinton has regularly appeared in genre fare.
  • (12) Stephens plays Rob, the linchpin of a group of young friends in the fictional village of Overton.
  • (13) The linchpin of oncologic statistics might well be thought to be classification based upon the hope that comparisons of natural history and treatment regimes could be compared and controlled worldwide.
  • (14) Cowell has become the king of prime-time TV in the US on the back of the phenomenal success of American Idol, where he is the linchpin of the judging panel.
  • (15) Platt was one of many overlooked linchpins of the grime scene, and Channel U was radical at a time when black British artists weren’t being readily supported on mainstream channels, radio or labels.
  • (16) The nurse manager is becoming a key player in hospitals' efforts to satisfy patient needs, hold down costs and maximize efficiency; indeed, this "linchpin" manager is being given authority over budgeting, capital equipment expenditures, employee evaluations and patient care outcomes.
  • (17) In the first weeks after Snowden disclosed the phone records mass collection to the Guardian, the NSA’s leadership publicly portrayed it as a linchpin to stop future terrorist attacks inside the US.
  • (18) With the WTO's broader Doha round negotiations at an impasse, delegates hope that an agreement on trade facilitation could serve as the linchpin in a pared-down global trade deal that negotiators are aiming to reach at a high-level meeting in Bali in December.
  • (19) Sampson in Johannesburg had become the linchpin of the Observer 's Africa coverage.
  • (20) The drama of that 1944 Democratic convention is one that Stone and Kuznick wrote as a Hitchcockian thriller in the late 1990s before deciding to make it, a decade later, the linchpin of their documentary.

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