0 past simple and past participle of anchor
1 to lower an anchor into the water in order to stop a boat from moving away
2 to act as the anchorman or anchorwoman of a programme:
3 to be the member of a team who goes last in a relay (= a type of race between two or more teams in which each person in the team runs or swims part of the race):
The extracellular domain is anchored to the cell membrane by a transmembrane domain of approximately 24 amino acids.
Clearly, empirically anchored rating methods for eliciting semantic similarity and dissimilarity deserve further consideration.
Both developments are motivated by a perceived need to achieve communicatively transparent test results anchored in observable behaviors.
Many landscapes have been 'dehistoricized', thus impoverishing the living memory of the landscape, anchored in certain places during the long interaction of man and environment.
Such statements are evidence of doctors' decision-making being anchored in empirical evidence about disease prevalence.
Legal instruments are often accompanied by financial sanctions, while economic instruments are anchored in legal regulations.
Responses were ranked according to the severity of stressors on a fully anchored fivepoint scale ranging from ' none ' (0) to ' severe ' (4).
The related troubles talk nourished the community, anchored in these two visible members, whose biographical particulars signalled a very visible identity.
