On a boat, an anchor is a heavy object attached to a rope. You toss it overboard, it sinks to the bottom, and your vessel doesn't move. Anchor has the sense of what holds something in place.
Styptic. [Obs.]
imp. & p. p.
of Anchor
a.
Held by an anchor; at anchor; held safely; as, an
anchored bark; also, shaped like an anchor; forked; as, an anchored
tongue.
a.
Having the extremities turned back, like the flukes of an
anchor; as, an anchored cross.
Anchored
An`a*stal"tic , a. & n.Styptic. [Obs.]
Usage Examples
There was a great complexity to my father. He was a devoted family man. But, in the same breath, he simply was not suited to an anchored life. He should have been somebody who had a backpack, an old map, a bit of change in his pocket and that was it - roaming the world.
Men can absent themselves from real life for their art more easily. Women are anchored into the quotidian business of getting food on the table, making sure everybody's socks match, the soccer gear is ready. I admire idealists, but they're usually enabled by someone who holds the tether on their balloon, who pays the bills and sweeps up after them.
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Other Usage ExamplesThe 6th of August in the morning we saw an opening in the land and we ran into it, and anchored in 7 and a half fathom water, 2 miles from the shore, clean sand.
I would say that no film is apolitical. There are politics in all films. Any film that is anchored in a society, any film that deals with humanity is necessarily political.
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