The difference between Anchor and Dowel

Anchor as a noun (nautical):

A tool used to moor a vessel to the bottom of a sea or river to resist movement.

Anchor as a noun (nautical):

An iron device so shaped as to grip the bottom and hold a vessel at her berth by the chain or rope attached. (FM 55-501).

Anchor as a noun (nautical):

The combined anchoring gear (anchor, rode, bill/peak and fittings such as bitts, cat, and windlass.)

Anchor as a noun (heraldiccharge):

Representation of the nautical tool, used as a heraldic charge.

Anchor as a noun:

Any instrument serving a purpose like that of a ship's anchor, such as an arrangement of timber to hold a dam fast; a device to hold the end of a bridge cable etc.; or a device used in metalworking to hold the core of a mould in place.

Anchor as a noun (Internet):

A marked point in a document that can be the target of a hyperlink.

Anchor as a noun (television):

An anchorman or anchorwoman.

Anchor as a noun (athletics):

The final runner in a relay race.

Anchor as a noun (archery):

A point that is touched by the draw hand or string when the bow is fully drawn and ready to shoot.

Anchor as a noun (economics):

A superstore or other facility that serves as a focus to bring customers into an area.

Anchor as a noun (figurative):

That which gives stability or security.

Anchor as a noun (architecture):

A metal tie holding adjoining parts of a building together.

Anchor as a noun (architecture):

Carved work, somewhat resembling an anchor or arrowhead; part of the ornaments of certain mouldings. It is seen in the echinus, or egg-and-anchor (called also egg-and-dart, egg-and-tongue) ornament.

Anchor as a noun:

One of the anchor-shaped spicules of certain sponges.

Anchor as a noun:

One of the calcareous spinules of certain holothurians, as in species of Synapta.

Anchor as a noun (cartomancy):

The thirty-fifth Lenormand card.

Anchor as a noun (obsolete):

An anchorite or anchoress.

Anchor as a verb:

To connect an object, especially a ship or a boat, to a fixed point.

Anchor as a verb:

To cast anchor; to come to anchor.

Anchor as a verb:

To stop; to fix or rest.

Anchor as a verb:

To provide emotional stability for a person in distress.

Anchor as a verb:

To perform as an anchorman or anchorwoman.

Anchor as a verb:

To be stuck; to be unable to move away from a position.

Dowel as a noun:

A pin, or block, of wood or metal, fitting into holes in the abutting portions of two pieces, and being partly in one piece and partly in the other, to keep them in their proper relative position.

Dowel as a noun:

A wooden rod, as one to make short pins from.

Dowel as a noun (construction):

A piece of wood or similar material fitted into a surface not suitable for fastening so that other pieces may fastened to it.

Dowel as a verb (transitive):

To fasten together with dowels.

Dowel as a verb (transitive):

To furnish with dowels.