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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 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
- Anchor bolt, used to attach objects or structures to concrete.
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 (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
Places
- Anchor, Illinois
- Anchor, Shropshire, a village in England
- Anchor Island, is an island in the Southland district of New Zealand.
- Anchor Island, part of the Duke of York Archipelago, Canada
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
- Anchormen and anchor women, a colloquial term for news presenters
- 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 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
- Anchor Exchange an underground bunker
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