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Berth vs Anchor - What's the difference?

berth | anchor |

In nautical terms the difference between berth and anchor

is that berth is a room in which a number of the officers or ship's company mess and reside while anchor is the combined anchoring gear (anchor, rode, and fittings such as bitts, cat, and windlass..

As nouns the difference between berth and anchor

is that berth is a fixed bunk for sleeping in (caravans, trains, etc) while anchor is a tool used to moor a vessel to the bottom of a sea or river to resist movement.

As verbs the difference between berth and anchor

is that berth is to bring (a ship or vehicle) into its berth while anchor is to hold an object, especially a ship or a boat to a fixed point.

berth

English

Alternative forms

* (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A fixed bunk for sleeping in (caravans, trains, etc).
  • Room for maneuvering or safety. (Often used in the phrase a wide berth .)
  • A space for a ship to moor or a vehicle to park.
  • (nautical) A room in which a number of the officers or ship's company mess and reside.
  • A job or position, especially on a ship.
  • (sports) Position or seed in a tournament bracket.
  • (sports) position on the field of play
  • * {{quote-news, year=2012
    • , date=December 29 , author=Paul Doyle , title=Arsenal's Theo Walcott hits hat-trick in thrilling victory over Newcastle , work=The Guardian citation , page= , passage=Olivier Giroud then entered the fray and Walcott reverted to his more familiar berth on the right wing, quickly creating his side's fifth goal by crossing for Giroud to send a plunging header into the net from close range.}}

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to bring (a ship or vehicle) into its berth
  • to assign a berth (bunk or position) to

    • 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.

    • Anagrams

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