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Streamer vs Anchor - What's the difference?

streamer | anchor |

As nouns the difference between streamer and anchor

is that streamer is a long, narrow flag, or piece of material used or seen as a decoration while anchor is a tool used to moor a vessel to the bottom of a sea or river to resist movement.

As a verb anchor is

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

streamer

English

(wikipedia streamer)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A long, narrow flag, or piece of material used or seen as a decoration.
  • *(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
  • *
  • *:Breezes blowing from beds of iris quickened her breath with their perfume; she saw the tufted lilacs sway in the wind, and the streamers of mauve-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees; she saw a crimson cardinal winging through the foliage, and amorous tanagers flashing like scarlet flames athwart the pines.
  • Strips of paper or other material used as confetti.
  • A newspaper headline that runs across the entire page.
  • (lb) Of computing.
  • #A data storage system, mainly used to produce backups, in which large quantities of data are transferred to a continuously moving tape.
  • #Any mechanism for ing data.
  • #:
  • (lb) In fly fishing, a variety of wet fly designed to mimic a minnow.
  • (lb) One who searches for stream tin.
  • A stream or column of light shooting upward from the horizon, constituting one of the forms of the aurora borealis.
  • *(James Russell Lowell) (1819-1891)
  • *:While overhead the North's dumb streamers shoot.
  • :(Macaulay)

    • See also

    * stream

    Anagrams

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    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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