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What is the difference between anchor and optic?

anchor | optic |

As nouns the difference between anchor and optic

is that anchor is (nautical) a tool used to moor a vessel to the bottom of a sea or river to resist movement while optic is an eye.

As a verb anchor

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

As a adjective optic is

of, or relating to the eye or to vision.

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).
  • * , chapter=10
  • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=Men that I knew around Wapatomac didn't wear high, shiny plug hats, nor yeller spring overcoats, nor carry canes with ivory heads as big as a catboat's anchor , as you might say.}}
  • (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.
  • optic

    English

    Alternative forms

    * optick (obsolete) * optique (obsolete)

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of, or relating to the eye or to vision.
  • * Milton
  • The moon, whose orb / Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views.
  • Of, or relating to optics or optical instruments.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An eye.
  • *(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
  • *:The difference is as great between / The optics seeing, as the object seen.
  • *1819 , (Lord Byron), Don Juan , I:
  • *:how they, / Who saw those figures on the margin kiss all, / Could turn their optics to the text and pray, / Is more than I know
  • *
  • *:Elbows almost touching they leaned at ease, idly reading the almost obliterated lines engraved there. ΒΆ ("I never) understood it," she observed, lightly scornful. "What occult meaning has a sun-dial for the spooney? I'm sure I don't want to read riddles in a strange gentleman's optics ."
  • A lens or other part of an optical instrument that interacts with light.
  • *{{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author= Fenella Saunders, magazine=(American Scientist)
  • , title= Tiny Lenses See the Big Picture , passage=The single-imaging optic of the mammalian eye offers some distinct visual advantages. Such lenses can take in photons from a wide range of angles, increasing light sensitivity. They also have high spatial resolution, resolving incoming images in minute detail.}}
  • A measuring device with a small window, attached to an upside-down bottle, used to dispense alcoholic drinks in a bar.
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