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

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Boat anchor (computer science), a colloquial term for outdated equipment

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

Anchor (album) (1999), by Trespassers William
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

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