Anchor (disambiguation)
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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
[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 runner 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 (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)
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