Anchor (disambiguation)

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Contents 1 Devices 2 Companies 3 Other 4 See also

Anchor can refer to:

[edit] Devices

• Anchor, a device used to attach a ship or boat to the bottom
• Sea anchor, a device used to slow the drift of a ship, when the vessel cannot anchor to the bottom
• Anchor (climbing), a device used in climbing
• Screw anchor, a device for fastening screws in a brittle material
• Wedge anchor, used to fasten a fixture to a solid material such as concrete

[edit] Companies

• Anchor Brewing Company and its subsidiary, Anchor Distilling Co., an American alcoholic beverage producer
• Anchor Hocking Glass Company
• Anchor Milk
• Anchor Stone Blocks, a brand of German stone blocks
• Anchor Records, a record label

[edit] Other

• Anchor, Illinois
• Anchor, Shropshire, a village in England
• Anchor Island, part of the Duke of York Archipelago, Canada
• Anchor (album) (1999), by Trespassers William
• Anchoring, in psychology, sticking to a given reference point
• News presenter, or news anchor
• Anchor store, a main tenant in a shopping mall
• Anchor, the competitor of the last leg in a relay race
• HTML anchor, the 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, a pejorative term used to refer to a child born in the United States to illegal immigrants or other non-citizens
• Anchoring (NLP), in neuro-linguistic programming, the process by which memory recall, state change or other responses become associated with (anchored to) some stimulus

[edit] See also

• Anchorage (disambiguation page)