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ANCHOR

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anchor I. substantiv

1. (mar.) ancoră;

to be / to lie / to ride at anchor a fi ancorat; a sta ancorat;

to cast anchor, to come to (an) anchor a arunca ancora;

to drop anchor a fundarisi ancora;

to back an anchor a adăuga încă o ancoră pe acelaşi lanţ;

let go the anchor! funda ancora!;

to weigh anchor a) a ridica ancora; b) (fig.) a relua lucrul (întrerupt);

the anchor is catted ancora e prinsă de ceva la fund;

the anchor is clear ancora (e) liberă;

the anchor comes home a) vasul trage ancora după sine; b) (fig.) nu merge, merge prost, lucrurile stau prost, nu iese nimic;

(fig.) to lay an anchor to windward a lua toate precauţiunile, a lua toate măsurile de prevedere.

2. (fig.) ancoră (de salvare), mântuire, nădejde, liman;

one's sheet anchor principala speranţă, cea mai mare nădejde (a cuiva).

3. (tehn.) bulon de ancorare.

anchor II. verb A. tranzitiv

1. (mar.) a ancora (şi fig.);

to anchor with a spring a împiedica (nava) de a se învârti cu ajutorul unei ancore la pupă;

(fig.) to anchor one's hope in / on a-şi pune nădejdea în.

2. (tehn.) a întări, a fixa, a consolida, a lega.

anchor II. verb B. intranzitiv

1. (mar.) a ancora, a arunca ancora; a fi ancorat.

2. (fig.) a se statornici, a se linişti.

3. (fig.) to anchor on / upon a) a se opri la; b) a se încrede în, a se bizui pe.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

An antibody is directed to the target by antigen-binding arms and anchors to the killer cell by an Fc receptor.

(Antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity, NCI Thesaurus)

The nucleosomal binding domain anchors these HMG proteins to the nucleosome cores to facilitate HMG-14/-17-dependent changes in chromatin structure.

(Nucleosome Binding Domain, NCI Thesaurus)

Now they draw upon the anchor.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

No, there’s no way of telling them at anchor.

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This allele, which encodes phosphatidylinositol glycan anchor biosynthesis class U protein, plays a role in glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI) anchor biosynthesis.

(PIGU wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

This protein is involved in the mediation of glycophosphoinositol anchor synthesis.

(Phosphatidylinositol N-Acetylglucosaminyltransferase Subunit A, NCI Thesaurus)

Here the sea was calm, save for a heavy but smooth ground-swell, and I took in the sea-anchor and began to row.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

Before evening we had successfully passed the rapids, and made our way some ten miles above them, where we anchored for the night.

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It might have been quite heart-breaking, but for Dora, who was the stay and anchor of my tempest-driven bark.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

The sled held as though it were an anchor.

(The Call of the Wild, de Jack London)

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