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  • Boat anchor (metaphor), a colloquial term for outdated equipment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 <code><nowiki><a></nowiki></code> HTML element
  • Reserve currency, or anchor currency

See also

  • Anchorage (disambiguation)
  • Anchoring (cognitive bias), in psychology, sticking to a given reference point