English English Dictionary
- anchor in English:
1. 
later
Maybe later.
Sometimes, if I look at a forest of trees, I get in a trance and don't even realize until minutes later.
Roger Miller learned to play the guitar and the violin. Much later, he learned to play the drums.
Years later, Europeans established colonies in the coastal areas.
I am staying with my uncle for the time being, but later I will move to a small apartment.
At first the job looked good to Tom, but later it became tiresome.
I met Tom before I graduated from high school, but didn't meet Mary until many years later.
An experiment, I would learn much later, when studying the philosophy of science, had to arise from a real dissatisfaction with existing knowledge.
Later, Chris felt ashamed and apologized and Beth forgave him.
Later, the nurse told me she had done her best to make me well.
Later, in high school, I would take chemistry the way I took vitamin pills.
It was a terrible confusion; Sue slipped later in the water. They're all mad at you.
Later, it happened that there was some gossip at home, and my mother suspected that she had written something improper; after that she would not have her letters written for her.
In later years, I confess that I do not envy the white boy as I once did.
All were imprisoned by the Allies after the war and later sentenced to death or given long prison terms for war crimes.
English word "anchor"(later) occurs in sets:
Word 2019 for Dummies2. The ship is anchored on the other side of the island
3. to lower the anchor on a ship or boat to hold it in one place
4. anchor
The ship dropped anchor.
They usually use an anchor to hold a yacht in place.
The boat is anchored to the wall with this chain.
His mother's letters were an anchor to the boy.
To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it— but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
Façade scaffolds must be anchored securely (i.e. resistant to pressure and tension) on the object around which the scaffold is erected (ladder scaffolds, metal scaffolds
Like the anchor
We dropped anchor (= lowered the anchor into the water) and stopped.
He anchored himself to the ladder with a rope and started cleaning the gutter. Three ships were anchored in the harbour.
We anchored ourselves to the rocks with a rope.
We anchored south of the island.
He was an anchor for his family in those difficult moments.
anchored to the ceiling
An old anchor.
Of course Jon Stewart is America's most trusted anchor now—even our real news is a farce!
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