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
[edit]- Sea anchor, a device to slow the drift of a vessel without use of the seabed
 - Earth anchor, a device 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
 - Anchor escapement, a type of escapement used in pendulum clocks
 - Screw anchor, to secure a screw in a brittle material
 - Boat anchor (metaphor), a colloquial term for outdated equipment
 - Digital anchor, uses GPS and electronic compass to hold a boat's position
 
Places
[edit]- Anchor, Illinois, US
 - Anchor, Kentucky, US
 - Anchor, Shropshire, a village in England
 - Anchor, Texas, US
 
Arts, entertainment, and media
[edit]Music
[edit]- Anchor (Autumn Hill album), 2015
 - Anchor (Colton Dixon album), 2014
 - Anchor (EP), by Birds of Tokyo, 2015
 - Anchor (Trespassers William album), 1999
 - "Anchor" (Cave In song), 2003
 - Anchors (Will Hoge album), 2017
 - Anchors, a 2013 album by I Am Empire
 - "Anchor", a song by Lifehouse from Stanley Climbfall, 2002
 - "Anchor", a song by Crossfade from Falling Away, 2006
 - "Anchor", a song by Skillet from Victorious, 2019
 - "Anchor", a 2015 song by Novo Amor
 
Film
[edit]- Anchor (film), a South Korean film
 
Other arts, entertainment, and media
[edit]- Anchor, a hammerhead shark character in Finding Nemo
 - The Anchor (newspaper), a newspaper for the Rhode Island College campus
 - Anchor Bible Series
 - Anchor Monument (Matveev Kurgan), Russia
 - 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
 
Brands and enterprises
[edit]- Anchor (brand), New Zealand dairy products
 - Anchor (housing association), housing and care provider for older people, UK
 - Anchor (New Haven bar), a bar and restaurant in downtown New Haven
 - The Anchor, Bankside, a pub in London
 - Anchor Books, an imprint of Random House
 - Anchor Brewing Company and Anchor Distilling Co., an American alcoholic beverage producer
 - Anchor Electricals Pvt. Ltd., an Indian electrical device manufacturing subsidiary of Panasonic
 - Anchor Hocking, glass company
 - Anchor Inc., a video game developer
 - Anchor Inn, Birmingham, England
 - Anchor Records, a record label
 - Anchor Stone Blocks, a brand of German stone blocks
 
Other uses
[edit]- Anchor baby, a term for a child born in the US to undocumented immigrants or other non-citizens
 - Anchor leg, the final runner in a track relay race
 - Anchor store, a main tenant in a shopping mall
 - Anchor telephone exchange, an underground telephone exchange in England
 - HTML anchor, the source and destination of a web hyperlink, specified by the 
<a>HTML element - Reserve currency, or anchor currency
 
See also
[edit]- Anchorage (disambiguation)
 - Anchoring (cognitive bias), in psychology, sticking to a given reference point