What is "anchorage"

Anchorage \An"chor*age\, n.

1. The act of anchoring, or the condition of lying at anchor.

2. A place suitable for anchoring or where ships anchor; a hold for an anchor.

3. The set of anchors belonging to a ship.

4. Something which holds like an anchor; a hold; as, the anchorages of the Brooklyn Bridge.

5. Something on which one may depend for security; ground of trust.

6. A toll for anchoring; anchorage duties.
   --Johnson.

Anchorage \An"cho*rage\, n. Abode of an anchoret.

mid-14c., "toll or charge for anchoring" (see anchor (v.) + -age. Meaning "act of dropping anchor, being at anchor" is from 1610s; that of "place suitable for anchoring" is from 1706. The Alaska city of Anchorage was founded 1914.

n. A large coastal city in Alaska.

1. n. a fee for anchoring

2. a city in south central Alaska; "Anchorage is the largest city in Alaska"

3. place for vessels to anchor [syn: anchorage ground]

4. the act of anchoring

Anchorage is a city in the US state of Alaska.

Anchorage may also refer to:

"Anchorage" is a song by Michelle Shocked released as a single from her 1988 album Short Sharp Shocked.

The song is about the narrator named Chel finally taking time out to write to an old friend, who has moved from Texas to Anchorage, and her friend's reply. In her reply, her friend realizes she might have become a housewife "anchored down in Anchorage", although still dreaming about being a "skateboard punk rocker in New York". She tells Chel that her husband Leroy "says send a picture, hello and to keep on rocking".

Much of the song's lyrics were taken directly from a letter from JoAnn Kelli Bingham, a Comanche Indian and recently married friend who had recently moved to geographically remote Alaska. Her husband is Leroy Bingham, a Blackfeet Indian who worked for Cook Inlet Tribal Council.

An anchorage is a location at sea where ships can lower anchors.

Anchorages are where anchors are lowered and utilised, whereas moorings usually are tethering to buoys or something similar. The locations usually have conditions for safe anchorage in protection from weather conditions, and other hazards.

The purpose of resting a ship at sea securely can be for waiting to enter ports, as well as taking on cargo or passengers where insufficient port facilities exist.

Some coastlines without port facilities have extensive anchorage locations.

In the days of large-scale sailing ship operation, anchorages were locations where ships could wait for wind changes to be able to continue journeys.

The mooring of large ships in locations with adequate conditions for secure berthing is an engineering task requiring considerable technical skill.

Anchorage in orthodontics is defined as a way of resisting a movement of certain teeth by employing different techniques. Anchorage is an important consideration in the field of orthodontics as this is a concept that is used frequently when correction malocclusions. Unplanned or unwanted tooth movement can have dire consequences, and therefore using anchorage to produce or stop a certain tooth movement becomes important. Anchorage can be used from many different sources such as teeth, bone, implants or extra-orally.

Certain factors related to the anatomy of teeth can affect the anchorage that may be used. Multi-rooted, longer-rooted, triangular shaped root teeth usually provide more anchorage than the single-rooted, short-rooted and ovoid rooted teeth.