Brace vs Anchor - What's the difference?
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(obsolete) Armor for the arm; vambrace.
(obsolete) A measurement of length, originally representing a person's outstretched arms.
A curved instrument or handle of iron or wood, for holding and turning bits, etc.; a bitstock.
That which holds anything tightly or supports it firmly; a bandage or a prop.
A cord, ligament, or rod, for producing or maintaining tension.
A thong used to regulate the tension of a drum.
* Derham
The state of being braced or tight; tension.
* Holder
Harness; warlike preparation.
* Shakespeare
(typography) A curved, pointed line, also known as "curly bracket": { or } connecting two or more words or lines, which are to be considered together, such as in ; in music, used to connect staves.
A pair, a couple; originally used of dogs, and later of animals generally and then other things, but rarely human persons. (The plural in this sense is unchanged.) In British use (as plural ), this is a particularly common reference to game birds.
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* Addison
* Fuller
A piece of material used to transmit, or change the direction of, weight or pressure; any one of the pieces, in a frame or truss, which divide the structure into triangular parts. It may act as a tie, or as a strut, and serves to prevent distortion of the structure, and transverse strains in its members. A boiler brace is a diagonal stay, connecting the head with the shell.
(nautical) A rope reeved through a block at the end of a yard, by which the yard is moved horizontally; also, a rudder gudgeon.
(UK, Cornwall, mining) The mouth of a shaft.
(mostly, in the plural) Straps or bands to sustain trousers; suspenders.
(mostly, in the plural) A system of wires, brackets, and elastic bands used to correct crooked teeth or to reduce overbite.
(soccer) Two goals scored by one player in a game.
(intransitive) To prepare for something bad, as an impact or blow.
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To place in a position for resisting pressure; to hold firmly.
* Fairfax
(nautical) To swing round the yards of a square rigged ship, using braces, to present a more efficient sail surface to the direction of the wind
To stop someone for questioning, usually said of police.
To confront with questions, demands or requests.
To furnish with braces; to support; to prop.
To draw tight; to tighten; to put in a state of tension; to strain; to strengthen.
* Campbell
To bind or tie closely; to fasten tightly.
* John Locke
* Sir Walter Scott
(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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, title= (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)
(label) That which gives stability or security.
* Bible, (w) vi. 19
(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 .
To hold an object, especially a ship or a boat to a fixed point.
To cast anchor; to come to anchor.
To stop; to fix or rest.
* Shakespeare
To provide emotional stability for a person in distress.
To perform as an anchorman.
In nautical terms the difference between brace and anchor
is that brace is to swing round the yards of a square rigged ship, using braces, to present a more efficient sail surface to the direction of the wind while anchor is the combined anchoring gear (anchor, rode, and fittings such as bitts, cat, and windlass..As nouns the difference between brace and anchor
is that brace is armor for the arm; vambrace 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 brace and anchor
is that brace is to prepare for something bad, as an impact or blow while anchor is to hold an object, especially a ship or a boat to a fixed point.brace
English
Noun
(en noun)- The little bones of the ear drum do in straining and relaxing it as the braces of the war drum do in that.
- the laxness of the tympanum, when it has lost its brace or tension
- for that it stands not in such warlike brace
- But you, my brace of lords, were I so minded,
- I here could pluck his highness' frown upon you,
- And justify you traitors
- He is said to have shot fifty brace of pheasants.
- A brace of brethren, both bishops, both eminent for learning and religion, now appeared in the church.
Verb
(brac)- All hands, brace for impact!
- Brace yourself!
- The boy has no idea about everything that's been going on. You need to brace him for what's about to happen.
- He braced himself against the crowd.
- A sturdy lance in his right hand he braced .
- to brace the yards
- to brace a beam in a building
- to brace the nerves
- And welcome war to brace her drums.
- The women of China, by bracing and binding them from their infancy, have very little feet.
- some who spurs had first braced on
Anagrams
* ----anchor
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Alternative forms
* anchour (chiefly archaic)Noun
(en noun)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.}}
- 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
- which hope we have as an anchor of the soul
Derived terms
* anchorage * anchor baby * screw anchor * weigh anchorVerb
(en verb)- Our ship (or the captain) anchored in the stream.
- My invention anchors on Isabel.
