Anchor (disambiguation)

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Anchor may refer to:

Devices

• Anchor, a device that attaches to the sea bottom to prevent a boat from drifting
• Anchor bolt, to attach objects or structures to concrete
• Anchor (climbing), used in rock climbing
• Anchor plate, to strengthen buildings
• Microdermal anchor, body modification
• Screw anchor, to secure a screw in a brittle material
• Sea anchor, to slow the drift of a vessel, when it cannot anchor to the bottom
• Boat anchor, a colloquial term for outdated equipment

Companies

• Anchor Books, an imprint of Random House
• Anchor Brewing Company and its subsidiary, Anchor Distilling Co., an American alcoholic beverage producer
• Anchor Hocking Glass Company
• Anchor Inc., a video game developer
• Anchor (brand), dairy products from New Zealand company Fonterra, also known as Fernleaf
• Anchor Records, a record label
• Anchor Stone Blocks, a brand of German stone blocks
• Anchor Trust, housing and care provider for older people, UK

Places

• Anchor, Illinois
• Anchor, Shropshire, a village in England
• Anchor, Texas
• Anchor Island, is an island in the Southland district of New Zealand
• Anchor Island (Nunavut), Canada
• Anchor Bankside, the London public house from which diarist Samuel Pepys saw the Great Fire of London in 1666

Human mind and behavior

• Anchoring, in psychology, sticking to a given reference point
• Anchoring (NLP), in neuro-linguistic programming, the process by which memory recall, state change or other responses become associated with (anchored to) some stimulus

Other

• Anchorman and anchorwoman, North American synonyms for a news presenter
• Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, a 2004 comedy film
• Anchor (album) (1999), by Trespassers William
• Anchor store, a main tenant in a shopping mall
• Anchor (relay), the competitor of the last leg in a relay race
• HTML anchor, the source and destination of a web hyperlink, specified by the <a> HTML element
• Plot anchor or plot hook, a type of story-line plot device or plot generator
• Anchor baby, an allegedly pejorative term used to refer to a child born in the United States to illegal immigrants or other non-citizens
• Anchor Baby, a 2010 Nigerian drama film
• Anchor Exchange an underground telephone exchange

See also

• Anchorage (disambiguation)