In amateur radio and computing, a boat anchor or boatanchor is something obsolete, useless, and cumbersome – so-called because metaphorically its only...

modification Anchor escapement, a type of escapement used in pendulum clocks Screw anchor, to secure a screw in a brittle material Boat anchor (metaphor), a colloquial...

account for and deal with experience. ... Peirce uses a metaphor similar in spirit to Neurath's boat. Inquiry 'is not standing upon the bedrock of fact. It...

used to prevent the anchor rode from becoming fouled on the keel or other underwater structures when the boat is resting at anchor and moving randomly...

the barrel of the anchor winch and to which the pawl is applied to prevent backruns of the anchor chain. rum-runner See go-fast boat. rummage 1. A place...

a boat, and the surface of each was covered with mud plaster and whitewash. Small boulders at the prow or stern of each grave represented anchors. Because...

mankind". The flood destroys "all of the earth". The use of a comparable metaphor in the Gilgamesh epic suggests that the reference to "dragonflies [filling]...

can be constructed ad hoc during communication. In the above metaphor, the phrase "anchor in the storm" has many slightly different ad-hoc meanings, and...

the mountain using a complex system of pulleys and aided by the ship's anchor windlass. The crew falls asleep after a drunken celebration, and the chief...

is conceivable that some Hawaiians may have used the name of Lono as a metaphor when describing Cook or other possible explanations other than Hawaiians...

Unscripted. 2013 – via YouTube. Pipkin, James W (2008). Sporting Lives: Metaphor and Myth in American Sports Autobiographies. Columbia: University of Missouri...

water flooding his boat. It has collided with a wayward shipping container, ripping a hole in the hull. The man uses a sea anchor to dislodge the container...

kids to the position of the movie's mass protagonist and becomes a tricky metaphor of the unspeakable pains and anxieties of growing up". He further commented...

noted that, when the film premiered at TIFF, "many viewers read [it] as a metaphor for climate change [...] Nowadays, the lessons in this imaginative and...

while drifting offshore. In October 2007, a fishing boat dragged up a large 19th-century anchor, which was speculated to have been lost by the SS Great...

section of a ship that the anchor chain passes through. Hawsepiper refers to climbing up the hawsepipe, a nautical metaphor for climbing up the ship's...

Herzog's third feature ... is both a landmark film and a magnificent social metaphor". Danny Peary wrote, "To see Aguirre for the first time is to discover...

lauding its drama, low-budgeted visual effects, and usage of "kaiju as a metaphor for social critique". On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes...

sales on a new product in this case it was a success. Boat anchor (computer science) – metaphor for outdated equipmentPages displaying wikidata descriptions...

decade due to concerns about potential controversy and lawsuits, until Anchor Bay Films eventually acquired the film in 2010 for a direct-to-video release...

volume Eldorado. Ward Moore's 1951 story Flying Dutchman used the myth as a metaphor for an automated bomber which continues to fly over an Earth where humanity...

bow section of a ship that the anchor chain passes through. "Coming up through the hawsepipe" is a nautical metaphor for climbing up the ship's rank...

mushroom anchors, named for their shape, which typically weigh 3-4 tons. The first lightvessel equipped with one was a converted fishing boat, renamed...

section of a ship that the anchor chain passes through. Hawsepiper refers to climbing up the hawsepipe, a nautical metaphor for climbing up the ship's...

highlighted. Yet Kitty's ability to "phase" was, to a degree, an ingenious metaphor for that teenage desire to sometimes just disappear. Who, at that age,...

attached. The anchor point of the kite line may be static or moving (e.g., the towing of a kite by a running person, boat, free-falling anchors as in paragliders...

projected onto video screens, alongside several large props like a boat or anchor, reinforcing the tour's visual theme. Accompanying SZA was a three-person...

produced by Malaysian laureate Muhammad Haji Salleh and uses the story as a metaphor for the general experience of moving away from one's cultural roots. Si...

David (2010-03-17). "New Comedy Central show 'Ugly Americans' delivers metaphor in offbeat way". Daily News (New York). Retrieved 2010-05-01. King, Kris...

rasping, "gravelly" vocals. The lyrics often feature far-fetched similes, metaphors, word play and obscure allusions. Though never attaining much more than...