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Toehold vs Anchorage - What's the difference?

toehold | anchorage | Related terms |

As nouns the difference between toehold and anchorage

is that toehold is a foothold small enough to support just the toe while anchorage is a harbor, river, or offshore area that can accommodate a ship at anchor, either for quarantine, queuing, or discharge..

As a proper noun Anchorage is

a large coastal city in Alaska.

toehold

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (rock climbing) A foothold small enough to support just the toe.
  • (by extension) Any small advantage which allows one to make significant progress.
  • *1990 , (Peter Hopkirk), The Great Game , Folio Society 2010, p. 151:
  • *:Were Herat to fall to the Persians, this would give the Russians a crucial and dangerous toe-hold in western Afghanistan.
  • *2009 , Alan Travis, The Guardian , 8 Dec 2009:
  • *:One in three "adult-kids" who have not left the parental nest say they are still living at home because they cannot afford to get a toehold on the property ladder by buying or renting.

    • anchorage

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (nautical) A harbor, river, or offshore area that can accommodate a ship at anchor, either for quarantine, queuing, or discharge.US FM 55-15 TRANSPORTATION REFERENCE DATA; 9 June 1886 .
  • (nautical) A fee charged for anchoring.
    • (Johnson)
  • That into which something is anchored or fastened.
    • the anchorages of the Brooklyn Bridge
  • (medicine) The surgical fixation of prolapsed organs.
  • The act of anchoring, or the condition of lying at anchor.
  • The set of anchors belonging to a ship.
  • (figurative) Something on which one may depend for security; ground of trust.

    • Coordinate terms

    * (fee for anchoring) cranage, demurrage, shippage, shorage, tonnage, wharfage

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