Anchor vs Brake - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between anchor and brake

is that anchor is (label) a tool used to moor a vessel to the bottom of a sea or river to resist movement while brake is a fern; bracken or brake can be a thicket, or an area overgrown with briers etc or brake can be a tool used for breaking flax or hemp or brake can be (label) an ancient engine of war analogous to the crossbow and ballista or brake can be (obsolete) a cage.

As verbs the difference between anchor and brake

is that anchor is to hold an object, especially a ship or a boat to a fixed point while brake is to bruise and crush; to knead or brake can be to operate (a) brake(s) or brake can be (lb) (break).

anchor

English

Alternative forms

* anchour (chiefly archaic)

Noun

(en noun)

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

# Formerly a vessel would differentiate amongst the anchors carried as waist anchor'', ''best bower'', ''bower'', ''stream'' and ''kedge'' anchors, depending on purpose and, to a great extent, on mass and size of the anchor. Modern usage is ''storm anchor'' for the heaviest anchor with the longest rode, ''best bower'' or simply ''bower'' for the most commonly used anchor deployed from the bow, and ''stream'' or ''lunch hook for a small, light anchor used for temporary moorage and often deployed from the stern.

# (label) 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).

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(label) The combined anchoring gear (anchor, rode, and fittings such as bitts, cat, and windlass.)

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.

(label) A marked point in a document that can be the target of a hyperlink.

(label) An anchorman or anchorwoman.

(label) The final runner in a relay race.

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

* 2006 , Planning: For the Natural and Built Environment (issues 1650-1666, page 15)

Supermarkets have also had to adjust. Tesco, Sainsbury's and Asda have put a much greater emphasis on developing smaller high street stores or becoming anchors for mixed-used regeneration schemes

(label) That which gives stability or security.

* Bible, (w) vi. 19

which hope we have as an anchor of the soul

(label) A metal tie holding adjoining parts of a building together.

(label) 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 anchor-shaped spicules of certain sponges.

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

Derived terms

* anchorage * anchor baby * screw anchor * weigh anchor

Verb

(en verb)

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

To cast anchor; to come to anchor.

Our ship (or the captain) anchored in the stream.

To stop; to fix or rest.

* Shakespeare

My invention anchors on Isabel.

To provide emotional stability for a person in distress.

To perform as an anchorman.

Anagrams

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brake

English

(brake)

Etymology 1

Apparently a shortened form of (bracken). (Compare (chick), (chicken).)

Noun

(en noun)

A fern; bracken.

Etymology 2

Compare Middle Low German brake.

Noun

(en noun)

A thicket, or an area overgrown with briers etc.

He halts, and searches with his eyes

Among the scatter'd rocks:

And now at distance can discern

A stirring in a brake of fern

* Shakespeare

Rounds rising hillocks, brakes obscure and rough, / To shelter thee from tempest and from rain.

* Sir Walter Scott

He stayed not for brake , and he stopped not for stone.

Etymology 3

From (etyl) braeke.

Noun

(en noun)

A tool used for breaking flax or hemp.

A type of machine for bending sheet metal. (See .)

A large, heavy harrow for breaking clods after ploughing; a drag.

Verb

(brak)

To bruise and crush; to knead

The farmer's son brakes''' the flax while mother ' brakes the bread dough

To pulverise with a harrow

Derived terms

* brakeage

Etymology 4

Origin uncertain.

Noun

(en noun)

(label) An ancient engine of war analogous to the crossbow and ballista.

# (label) The winch of a crossbow.

The handle of a pump.

A device used to slow or stop the motion of a wheel, or of a vehicle, by friction; also, the controls or apparatus used to engage such a mechanism such as the pedal in a car.

# The act of braking, of using a brake to slow down a machine or vehicle

# (label) An apparatus for testing the power of a steam engine or other motor by weighing the amount of friction that the motor will overcome; a friction brake.

# (label) Something used to retard or stop some action, process etc.

A baker's kneading trough.

(Johnson)

A device used to confine or prevent the motion of an animal.

# A frame for confining a refractory horse while the smith is shoeing him.

# An enclosure to restrain cattle, horses, etc.

#* 1868 , March 7, The Illustrated London News , number 1472, volume 52, “Law and Police”, page 223:

He was shooting, and the field where the [cock-fighting] ring was verged on the shooting-brake where the rabbits were.

#* J. Brende

A horseand because of his fierceness kept him within a brake of iron bars.

# A cart or carriage without a body, used in breaking in horses.

# A carriage for transporting shooting parties and their equipment.^(w)

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That part of a carriage, as of a movable battery, or engine, which enables it to turn.

Derived terms

* air brake * antilock brake * brake band * brake disc * brake drum * brake fluid * brake harrow * brake horsepower * brake lining * brakeman, brakesman * brake drum * brake pad * brake van * brake wheel * brakey * caliper brake * disc brake * emergency brake * foot brake * hand brake * parking brake * press brake

Descendants

* Portuguese:

Verb

(brak)

To operate (a) brake(s).

To be stopped or slowed (as if) by braking.

Etymology 5

Origin uncertain.

Noun

(en noun)

(obsolete) A cage.

* 2011 , Thomas Penn, Winter King , Penguin 2012, p. 83:

Methods of applying pain were many and ingenious, in particular the ways of twisting, stretching and manipulating the body out of shape, normally falling under the catch-all term of the rack, or the brakes .

Etymology 6

Inflected forms.

Verb

(head)

(lb) (break)

* Exodus 32:3, KJV:

And all the people brake off the golden earrings

Anagrams

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