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Anchor
Also known as: Fisherman, Admiralty Pattern Anchor
Unicode: U+2693
Description
A metal device, dropped out of a boat to prevent it drifting away from the current location. An anchor also refers to a place on a webpage that may be directly linked to, rather than simply loading a page and requiring a user to scroll to the correct location.
Image Variants

3D
Color
Flat
High Contrast
Version Information
Emoji Version:1.0
Unicode Version:4.1
Keywords
anchorshiptool
Shortcodes
Platform | Shortcode | Action |
---|---|---|
Emojipedia | :anchor: | |
GitHub | :anchor: | |
Slack | :anchor: | |
Discord | :anchor: |
Additional Information
Category:Miscellaneous Symbols -> Dictionary and map symbols
Definition:
A metal device, dropped out of a boat to prevent it drifting away from the current location. An anchor also refers to a place on a webpage t http://emojipedia.org/anchor/
Adjectives:
- Having the extremities turned back, like the flukes of an anchor.
- Connected with or belonging to or used in a navy
- Of or relating to a navy.
Verbs:
- To traverse or travel by ship on a body of water.
- To travel by boat.
- Travel by boat.
- Traverse or travel on (a body of water)
- To be impelled or driven forward by the action of wind upon sails, as a ship on water; to be impelled on a body of water by steam or other power.
- Transport by ferry
- To carry; transport; convey.
Nouns:
- A ship is a large buoyant watercraft.
- A larger water vessel
- Large buoyant watercraft
- Large water vessel.
- A vessel that carries passengers or freight
- A water-borne vessel generally larger than a boat.
- Ships are large buoyant marine vessels.
- A boat that by its size, solidity and power is appropriate for long navigations and big marine enterprises.
- A ferry is a boat or ship used to carry primarily passengers, and sometimes vehicles and cargo as well, across a body of water.
- A place where passengers are transported across water in such a ship.
- A boat used to ferry passengers, vehicles, or goods across open water, especially one that runs to a regular schedule
- Type of ship