(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.
Ringleader
Definition:
(n.) The leader of a circle of dancers; hence, the leader of a number of persons acting together; the leader of a herd of animals.
(n.) Opprobriously, a leader of a body of men engaged in the violation of law or in an illegal enterprise, as rioters, mutineers, or the like.
Example Sentences:
(1) The government blamed the opposition, jailing alleged ringleader Vladimir Kozlov amid an international outcry, closing down his party and shutting dozens of independent media outlets.
(2) Albums include Viva Hate, Vauxhall And I, and Ringleader Of The Tormentors.
(3) French, who has joined the nightly marches, said police appeared to have caught agitator ringleaders the previous 24 hours.
(4) Prison staff are working with Nottinghamshire Police to identify the ringleaders.
(5) Muktar Said-Ibrahim, the suspected ringleader, was seen in Rome several weeks before the failed attack, two witnesses told the Guardian yesterday.
(6) A former journalist, Vladimir Anikeev, believed to be the ringleader of the group, is also among those arrested, according to reports.
(7) And the BBC reports that Spanish police targeted "ringleaders" behind the "Occupy Congress" movement.
(8) When soldiers eventually broke their siege and killed the ringleaders, Bin Laden was seething.
(9) They were arrested reportedly because they were believed to have been ringleaders in earlier protests over the weekend.
(10) French media stressed that it was a public tip-off that ultimately helped police locate Abdeslam, just as it had been for the ringleader, Abaaoud.
(11) Abdeslam hunt map Belgian investigators have placed Abdeslam – a childhood friend of the terror cell’s ringleader, Abdelhamid Abaaoud – in Budapest in early September, and later on the Austrian border, allegedly picking up two of the attackers who had joined the flow of refugees and migrants heading up through the Balkans.
(12) The court, however, accepted a petition from lawyers for the accused ringleader – Yosef Haim Ben David, 31 – to reconsider a claim of insanity.
(13) Along with Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the ringleader of the 13 November attacks in Paris, Kriket was convicted in absentia last July of recruiting Islamist fighters for Syria in Belgium .
(14) Reader’s fellow ringleaders, John “Kenny” Collins, 75, Daniel Jones, 61, and Terry Perkins, 67, were each jailed for seven years after pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit burglary last September.
(15) Australia’s immigration minister, Peter Dutton , has praised Papua New Guinean authorities for “professionally” moving to end the standoff at the Manus Island detention centre by taking away alleged ringleaders.
(16) The support networks are so deeply implanted into Serbia's most powerful institutions that some question whether Vukcevic will go after their ringleaders.
(17) One of the Hatton Garden heist ringleaders has had a stroke, is being tested for suspected cancer and may not have long to live, a court has heard.
(18) We also need to consider if Singh's death, as the alleged ringleader of the conspiracy, will hurt the chances of bringing the other five suspects to justice.
(19) The files, which contained information dating back to the 1980s, contained descriptions such as "militant ringleader", "agitator", "is a good worker but has proved to be very militant", "do not touch", and "that subject is a very bad troublemaker and would not be re-employed".
(20) The Revolutionary Guards have accused Zaghari-Ratcliffe of fomenting a “soft overthrow” of the Islamic Republic and being the ringleader of a network of “hostile institutions” associated with foreign intelligence agencies, allegations that her husband has said are untrue.