The term aweigh describes an anchor when it is hanging on the rode and is not resting on the bottom.

This is linked to the term to weigh anchor, meaning to lift the anchor from the sea bed, allowing the ship or boat to move.

More recently the term is applied to a board of thin insulating material with holes at standard 0. 1-inch pitch ; components are pushed through the holes to anchor them, and point-to-point wired on the other side of the board.

Zimmer ( and others ) also note that the term anchor was in common use in 1952 to describe the most prominent member of a panel of reporters or experts.

Although it is widely reported that the term " anchor " was coined to describe Cronkite's role at both the Democratic and Republican National Conventions, marking the first nationally televised convention coverage, other news presenters bore the title before him.

In amateur radio and computing, boat anchor is a slang term used to describe something obsolete, useless, and cumbersome-so-called because metaphorically its only productive use is to be thrown into the water as a boat mooring.

The term barnstar has been incorrectly applied to star-shaped anchor plates that were used for structural reinforcement on buildings in the 18th and 19th centuries.

* Boat anchor ( computer science ), a colloquial term for outdated equipment

* No long term issues with maintaining the integrity of the anchor / dead end.

A related term, " anchor child ", referring in this case to " very young immigrants who will later sponsor immigration for family members who are still abroad ", was used in reference to Vietnamese boat people from about 1987.

Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, an organization that advocates tighter restrictions on immigration, argues that defining the term as offensive is inaccurate and is done for purposes of political rhetoric ; according to Krikorian, "' anchor baby is a child born to an illegal immigrant ,'" and the revision of the definition to state that the term is offensive was done to make a political statement.

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According to the Double-Tongued Dictionary, written by American lexicographer Grant Barrett, the term " anchor baby " means " a child born of an immigrant in the United States, said to be a device by which a family can find legal foothold in the US, since those children are automatically allowed to choose United States citizenship.

On August 17, 2006, Chicago Tribune columnist Eric Zorn used the term " anchor baby " in reference to Saul Arellano, in a column critical of his mother, who had been given sanctuary at a Chicago church after evading a deportation order.

On August 23, 2007, the San Diego, California-area North County Times came under criticism from one of its former columnists, Raoul Lowery Contreras, in a column titled "' Anchor babies ' is hate speech ", for allowing the term " anchor baby " to be printed in letters and opinion pieces.

Mushroom anchors are not carried on a boat for use as a temporary or short term anchor.

* Anchor home: The term for when the anchor is secured for sea.

* Long stay: A description for the relative slackness of an anchor chain ; this term means taught and extended.

* Short stay: A description for the relative slackness of an anchor chain ; this term means somewhat slack, but not vertical nor fully extended.

* Up-and-down: A description for the relative slackness of an anchor chain ; this term means that the anchor chain is slack and hangs vertically down from the hawsepipe.

Petitions asking for a jail term for Norristown attorney Julian W. Barnard will be presented to the Montgomery County Court Friday, it was disclosed Tuesday by Horace A. Davenport, counsel for the widow of the man killed last Nov. 1 by Barnard's hit-run car.

The term " anthropology " is from the Greek anthrōpos (), " man ", understood to mean humankind or humanity, and-logia (- λογία ), " discourse " or " study.

The term " android " can mean either one of these, while a cyborg (" cybernetic organism " or " bionic man ") would be a creature that is a combination of organic and mechanical parts.

Both the man and his teaching, including the term homoousios, had been condemned by the Synods of Antioch in 269.

( plural ), the term used to identify those who practice Ásatrú is a compound with ( Old Norse ) " man ".

The term " bodhisatta " ( Pāli language ) was used by the Buddha in the Pāli canon to refer to himself both in his previous lives and as a young man in his current life, prior to his enlightenment, in the period during which he was working towards his own liberation.

One of the earliest articulations of the anthropological meaning of the term " culture " came from Sir Edward Tylor who writes on the first page of his 1897 book: “ Culture, or civilization, taken in its broad, ethnographic sense, is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society .” The term " civilization " later gave way to definitions by V. Gordon Childe, with culture forming an umbrella term and civilization becoming a particular kind of culture.

Mexican factory workers and railroad crews first arrived in the Chicagoland area ( Chicago, Illinois ), used the term among themselves, probably to mean chicanery or the working man.

He sought election to another term, but the Democrats in the Missouri legislature were split between him and Benton, while the Whig minority put forward their own man.

Thus, in the sentence " There exists a man ", the term " man " is asserted to be part of existence.

He used this rather disparaging term in his 1830 novel Paul Clifford: He is certainly a man who bathes and ‘ lives cleanly ’, ( two especial charges preferred against him by Messrs. the Great Unwashed ).

" Gardnerian " was originally a pejorative term coined by Gardner's initiate and contemporary Roy Bowers ( also known as Robert Cochrane ), a British cunning man.

" Paddy Ashdown, the leader of the Liberal Democrats during Major's term of office, once described him in the House of Commons as a " decent and honourable man ".

In Cree, the term for a man who took the role of a woman was ayekkwew ; the Zuni word for a woman who took the role of a man was katsotse ( boy-girl ), and the Mohave give women the term hwame.

The term originated with Gertrude Stein who, after being unimpressed by the skills of a young car mechanic, asked the garage owner where the young man had been trained.

Even so, the term " the black man " was used for centuries in reference to the Devil, up until contemporary times when " black man " was used to replace the term " Negro " and the satanic sense was lost.

It became the sole `` subject '' of `` international law '' ( a term which, it is pertinent to remember, was coined by Bentham ), a body of legal principle which by and large was made up of what Western nations could do in the world arena.

'' The other important difference between the two Constitutions was that the President of the Confederacy held office for six ( instead of four ) years, and was limited to one term.

Bang-Jensen said you told correspondents that you had checked in advance to make sure the term ' aberrant conduct ' was not libelous.

His parents talked seriously and lengthily to their own doctor and to a specialist at the University Hospital -- Mr. McKinley was entitled to a discount for members of his family -- and it was decided it would be best for him to take the remainder of the term off, spend a lot of time in bed and, for the rest, do pretty much as he chose -- provided, of course, he chose to do nothing too exciting or too debilitating.

His teacher and his school principal were conferred with and everyone agreed that, if he kept up with a certain amount of work at home, there was little danger of his losing a term.

The term enquetes demographiques, previously used for the supplementary investigations carried out in connection with the administrative censuses, was used for the new investigations.

This term was also used by the cowboy in the sense of a human showin' fight, as one cowhand was heard to say, `` He arches his back like a mule in a hailstorm ''.

the first use of the word `` rustler '' was as a synonym for `` hustler '', becomin' an established term for any person who was active, pushin', and bustlin' in any enterprise.

Engages must be loyal to the concessionaires, and must serve until the term provided in the engagement was ended.

The September-October term jury had been charged by Fulton Superior Court Judge Durwood Pye to investigate reports of possible `` irregularities '' in the hard-fought primary which was won by Mayor-nominate Ivan Allen Jr..

When the crowd was asked whether it wanted to wait one more term to make the race, it voted no -- and there were no dissents.

Friday afternoon the Rev. T. F. Zimmerman was reelected for his second consecutive two-year term as general superintendent of Assemblies of God.

Commenting on the earlier stage, the Notre Dame Chapter of the American Association of University Professors ( in a recent report on the question of faculty participation in administrative decision-making ) noted that the term `` teacher-employee '' ( as opposed to, e.g., `` maintenance employee '' ) was a not inapt description.

The Unitarian clergy were an exclusive club of cultivated gentlemen -- as the term was then understood in the Back Bay -- and Parker was definitely not a gentleman, either in theology or in manners.

or `` Carmine Theater, 1912 '', the only canvas with an ash can ( and foraging dog ), although Sloan was a member of the famous `` Eight '', and of the so-called `` Ash-Can School '', a term he resented.

The term was introduced into optics by Johann Heinrich Lambert in his 1760 work Photometria.

In 1846, Lincoln was elected to the U. S. House of Representatives, where he served one two-year term.

Realizing Clay was unlikely to win the presidency, Lincoln, who had pledged in 1846 to serve only one term in the House, supported General Zachary Taylor for the Whig nomination in the 1848 presidential election.