Anchor (disambiguation)
Appearance
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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- Boat anchor (computer science), a colloquial term for outdated equipment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
Music
- Anchor (EP) by Birds of Tokyo, 2015
- "Anchor" (song) by Birds of Tokyo, 2015
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