ANCHOR (DISAMBIGUATION)


'Anchor' can refer to:

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Devices
Companies
Places
Other
See also

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

Anchor bolt, used to attach objects or structures to concrete.

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

Anchor Records, a record label

Places



Anchor, Illinois

Anchor, Shropshire, a village in England

Other



Anchorman

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 anchor, or news presenter

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 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

Anchoring (NLP), in neuro-linguistic programming, the process by which memory recall, state change or other responses become associated with (anchored to) some stimulus

Anchor Beer, one of the brands of Asia Pacific Breweries, mostly sold in Cambodia.

ANCHOR, Answering the Needs of Citizens with Handicaps through Organized Recreation. A camp run by the Town of Hempstead in Lido Beach, New York, that provides a free camp for children and adults with handicaps to go to for six weeks during the summer.

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Anchorage (disambiguation page)

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