Anchor (disambiguation)

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An anchor is a device that attaches to the sea bottom to prevent a boat from drifting.

Anchor may also refer to:

Devices

• Sea anchor, a device to slow the drift of a vessel without use of the sea bottom
• Earth anchor, a device that is designed to support structures, used in geotechnical and construction applications
• Anchor bolt, to attach objects or structures to concrete
• Anchor (climbing), used in rock climbing
• Anchor plate, to strengthen buildings
• Anchor, part of a microdermal implant in body modification
• Screw anchor, to secure a screw in a brittle material
• Boat anchor (computer science), a colloquial term for outdated equipment
• Digital Anchor Mercury Marine Skyhook Digital Anchor uses GPS and electronic compass to lock and actively hold a ship's position against wind and tide

Companies

• Anchor Books, an imprint of Random House
• Anchor Brewing Company and Anchor Distilling Co., an American alcoholic beverage producer
• Anchor Hocking, glass company
• Anchor Inc., a video game developer
• Anchor (brand), New Zealand dairy products
• Anchor Records, a record label
• Anchor Stone Blocks, a brand of German stone blocks
• Anchor (housing association), housing and care provider for older people, UK
• Anchor Electricals, an Indian electrical device manufacturing subsidiary of Panasonic

Entertainment and broadcasting

• Anchor (album) (1999), by Trespassers William
• Anchor (Autumn Hill album) (2015)
• Anchor, an electronic captions system that BBC Television used in the 1970s and 1980s
• News anchor, also known as a news presenter
• Plot anchor, a type of story-line plot device

Places

• Anchor, Illinois, United States
• Anchor, Kentucky, United States
• Anchor, Shropshire, a village in England
• Anchor, Texas, United States
• Anchor Island, an island in New Zealand
• Anchor Island (Nunavut), Canada

Other

• Anchor leg, the final runner in a track relay race
• Anchor Bankside, the London public house from which Samuel Pepys saw the Great Fire of London
• Anchor store, a main tenant in a shopping mall
• HTML anchor, the source and destination of a web hyperlink, specified by the <a> HTML element
• Fragment identifier, the #foo-part of an URI

See also

• Anchor baby, a term for a child born in the United States to illegal immigrants or other non-citizens
• Anchor Exchange an underground telephone exchange in England
• Anchoring, in psychology, sticking to a given reference point
• Anchorage (disambiguation)
• Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, a 2004 comedy film
• Anchor Baby, a 2010 Nigerian drama film