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in pendulum clocks Screw anchor, to secure a screw in a brittle material Boat anchor (metaphor), a colloquial term for outdated equipment Digital anchor, uses GPS and electronic compass to hold a boat's position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
Arts, entertainment, and media 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 "Anchor", a song by Hatchie from Liquorice, 2025
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 tenant, a significant retail outlet within 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 <a> HTML element Reserve currency, or anchor currency
See also Anchorage (disambiguation) Anchoring (cognitive bias), in psychology, sticking to a given reference point Anker (disambiguation)