Color Names

Boat Anchor

Rusty metal, the color of an anchor left at the bottom of a lake.

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Boat Anchor is a neutral grey.

It can be described as neutral, medium and colorless.

Set in white, because white reads best on it.

Boat Anchor

Boat anchor (metaphor)

In amateur radio and computing, a boat anchor or boatanchor is something obsolete, useless, and cumbersome – so-called because metaphorically its only productive use is to be thrown into the water as a boat mooring. Terms such as brick, doorstop, and paperweight are similar.

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Anchor

An anchor is a device, normally made of metal, used to secure a vessel to the bed of a body of water to prevent the craft from drifting due to wind or current. The word derives from Latin ancora, which itself comes from the Greek ἄγκυρα.

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Boat

A boat is a watercraft of a large range of types and sizes, but generally smaller than a ship, which is distinguished by its larger size or capacity, its shape, or its ability to carry boats.

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boat anchor

Noun

  1. A cumbersome, useless piece of equipment.
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