The Collaborative International Dictionary
Anchor \An"chor\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Anchored; p. pr. & vb. n. Anchoring.] [Cf. F. ancrer.]
To place at anchor; to secure by an anchor; as, to anchor a ship.
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To fix or fasten; to fix in a stable condition; as, to anchor the cables of a suspension bridge.
Till that my nails were anchored in thine eyes.
--Shak.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The act or means by which something is anchored or made firm. 2 (context psychology English) The tendency of people to place subsequently refined answers to a given question close to the initially estimated answer, giving unduly weight to the initial answer, such as adjusting the initial estimate of "20%" to "30%" when "90%" would be more appropriate. vb. (present participle of anchor English)
Wikipedia
Anchoring or focalism is a cognitive bias that describes the common human tendency to rely too heavily on the first piece of information offered (the "anchor") when making decisions. During decision making, anchoring occurs when individuals use an initial piece of information to make subsequent judgments. Once an anchor is set, other judgments are made by adjusting away from that anchor, and there is a bias toward interpreting other information around the anchor. For example, the initial price offered for a used car sets the standard for the rest of the negotiations, so that prices lower than the initial price seem more reasonable even if they are still higher than what the car is really worth.
Usage examples of "anchoring".
Each was authorized to use as much time each day after regular working hours as he considered necessary to conduct his training, which would not be limited to docking and undocking, anchoring and unanchoring, but would include towing and being towed, fueling and provisioning while under way, and launch and recovery.
Except for the lack of ground swell it was like anchoring in midocean.
McGinty: patrolling slowly back and forth across the straits until noon, performing the duties just described, then after lunch anchoring in a quiet little cove on the Shikoku side for the afternoon, watching the strait visually and by radar, and communicating with any passing ships by radio or twenty-four-inch signal light.
Gruder touched a presspad and flanges pushed out in three directions from the head of each piton, anchoring it.
I had a natural gift for anchoring and a passion for reporting, and was blessed with a lush new contract that guaranteed me both.
He was anchoring the news while I was gone and, reading between the lines, Harry loved it.
Capustan were sacred sites, their summits displaying the inverted tree trunks that were the Barghast custom of anchoring spiritsor so Hetan explained as she walked alongside Gruntle, who was leading his horse by the reins.
Apparently it found fresh quarry and has extended this jet, anchoring it firmly with magnetic flux ropes in a helical pattern.
She tested it and started to climb, trying not to think about rotten wood or loose anchorings.