Anchor (disambiguation)

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 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• Boat anchor (metaphor), a colloquial term for outdated equipment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

• Anchor, Illinois, US
• Anchor, Kentucky, US
• Anchor, Shropshire, a village in England
• Anchor, Texas, US

Arts, entertainment, and media

Music

• Anchor (Autumn Hill album), 2015
• Anchor (Colton Dixon album), 2014
• Anchor (EP), by Birds of Tokyo, 2015
  • "Anchor" (Birds of Tokyo song), 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

• Anchor (film), a South Korean film

Other arts, entertainment, and media

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Anchorage (disambiguation)
• Anchoring (cognitive bias), in psychology, sticking to a given reference point