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 * Boat anchor (metaphor), a colloquial term for outdated equipment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

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  HTML element
 * Reserve currency, or anchor currency