marker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɑː(ɹ)kə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)kə(ɹ)
Forms: form: markers
Etymology: From mark + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Don't use the permanent marker on the whiteboard.
glosses: Someone or something that creates marks, particularly
A felt-tipped pen, a marker pen.
glosses: Someone or something that creates marks, particularly
A scorekeeper, especially one who tallies billiard scores.
topics: games
paintball
glosses: Someone or something that creates marks, particularly
A device that fires a paintball.
examples: text: Board member Phillip Carlson […] said he considers [the election of] Brading to be a marker for the distance the gay and lesbian community has come.
ref: 1990 April 7, Deborah Schwartz, “Gay Group Hires Straight Man”, in Gay Community News, page 5:
glosses: Someone or something used to mark a position or amount, particularly
examples: text: Pellegrini insisted this was a game City had to win - this they did and with the sort of performance that put down a marker for how the Chilean wants his team to play.
ref: 2013 September 22, Phil McNulty, “Man City 4-1 Man Utd”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: Someone or something used to mark a position or amount, particularly
A real or virtual objective, something to be aimed for.
topics: broadcasting
entertainment
film
lifestyle
media
television
theater
glosses: Someone or something used to mark a position or amount, particularly
A location on a stage or set where an actor is to stand or move to during a scene, usually indicated by a small X design placed on the floor.
topics: broadcasting
entertainment
film
lifestyle
media
television
theater
glosses: Someone or something used to mark a position or amount, particularly
A location on a stage or set where an actor is to stand or move to during a scene, usually indicated by a small X design placed on the floor.
A direction issued by a camera operator for actors to be on their locations in readiness for a take.
glosses: Someone or something used to mark a position or amount, particularly
Synonym of IOU, an informal record of a debt.
synonyms: word: IOU
extra: an informal record of a debt
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Someone or something used to mark a position or amount, particularly
A free or bound morpheme indicating a grammatical function.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Someone or something used to mark a position or amount, particularly
Ellipsis of discourse marker.
examples: text: Markers are mapped relative to one another on chromosomes and used as signposts against which to map genes of interest that are linked with marker. This process of finding the linked markers/genes is referred to as grouping.
ref: 2012, N Manikanda Boopathi, Genetic Mapping and Marker Assisted Selection: Basics, Practice and Benefits, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 88:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Someone or something used to mark a position or amount, particularly
A gene or DNA sequence with a known location on a chromosome that can be used to identify individuals or species.
examples: text: Nurse Hall: Is there any reason we shouldn't do a full workup? / Steve Denube: Ignorance is bliss; that's about it. Hangover's worse than usual but that's probably from the drinking and recreational drug use. / Nurse Hall: We'll ignore the ganja and booger sugar markers.
ref: 2019, Justin Benson, directed by Justin Benson, Synchronic, spoken by Nurse Hall and Steve Denube (Rhonda Johnson Dents and Anthony Mackie), XYZ Films, →OCLC:
topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Someone or something used to mark a position or amount, particularly
A substance used as an indicator for diagnosis or other analysis, a biomarker.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Someone or something used to mark a position or amount, particularly
The soldier who forms the pilot of a wheeling column or marks the direction of an alignment.
glosses: Someone or something used to mark a position or amount, particularly
A sewing machine attachment that creases the fabric to mark a line
glosses: Someone or something used to mark a position or amount, particularly
A counter, especially one used in card games or backgammon.
glosses: Someone or something used to mark a position or amount, particularly
Any of various objects that mark a place on the landscape, such as a milepost, blaze, or surveyor's cairn.
coordinate_terms: landmark
examples: text: So, in his end of term report, what marks would Brown award himself for his time at TfL?
"8½," he replies.
Why?
"I'm a hard marker! […]
ref: 2020 July 15, Mike Brown tells Paul Clifton, “Leading London's "hidden heroes"”, in Rail, page 47:
glosses: Someone who assigns marks on tests, examinations, etc.; a grader.
examples: text: Susie got marker all over the walls.
glosses: The ink marks or residue of a felt-tipped pen.
examples: text: We may not be able to do this alone. Maybe it’s time to call in some of our markers.
glosses: A personal favor owed to someone, whether written or not.
qualifier: competition law
glosses: A formal certification that a company was the first to approach a competition authority to reveal the existence of a cartel, generally entitling it to greater leniency during the cartel's dissolution and punishment.
examples: text: He skipped past Marc Wilson before clipping a delicious cross into the Stoke danger zone, where Cisse's sharp movement allowed him to escape marker Robert Huth and send a far-post header crashing against the crossbar. And Cabaye was waiting to pounce on the rebound with a close range header.
ref: 2012 April 21, Jonathan Jurejko, “Newcastle 3-0 Stoke”, in BBC Sport:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A player on defense used to mark one or more offensive players.
examples: text: The Court itself, with its rent, the wages of the Marker and the tips to the Marker, the rackets and the balls, the baths and the flannels and the washing of the flannels, do much to account for the costliness of play.
ref: 1903, Eustace Miles, Racquets, tennis, and squash, New York: Appleton & Co., page 39:
text: Some of the native markers attain to great skill, and the brilliant success in London of " Jamsetjee " the Bombay professional affords sufficient testimony to their capabilities.
ref: 1904 "Squash and Racquets" in Frederick George Aflalo ed. The sportsman's book for India p.519 (London: Horace Marshall & Son)
text: Of his victories over the curate at this game he is as proud as are others of his sex and cloth, not being old maids, of their mastery of "side" at billiards, and of an occasional victory over the club marker at evens.
ref: 1904 "A Foreign Resident" (George Washburn Smalley and Thomas Hay Sweet Escott) "Where Wit, Wealth and Empire Meet" Society in the new reign p.76 (London: T Fisher Unwin)
text: I played seven sets of doubles with Mitchell (the second best player in Ceylon) and David, the native marker.
ref: 1907 June 1, “Mr. A. F. Wilding's Tour”, in New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, No. 13453, page 7:
glosses: A player employed by a private club to compete against members.
topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
volleyball
glosses: A point, unit of scoring in a game or competition.
Derived terms: sense: Compound words
word: backmarker
sense: Compound words
word: biomarker
sense: Compound words
word: bookmarker
sense: Compound words
word: chemomarker
sense: Compound words
word: exomarker
sense: Compound words
word: fluoromarker
sense: Compound words
word: geomarker
sense: Compound words
word: glycomarker
sense: Compound words
word: hitmarker
sense: Compound words
word: immunomarker
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word: intermarker
sense: Compound words
word: markerboard
sense: Compound words
word: markerless
sense: Compound words
word: multimarker
sense: Compound words
word: neuromarker
sense: Compound words
word: oncomarker
sense: Compound words
word: osteomarker
sense: Compound words
word: phosphomarker
sense: Compound words
word: phylomarker
sense: Compound words
word: phytomarker
sense: Compound words
word: placemarker
sense: Compound words
word: radiomarker
sense: Compound words
word: seromarker
sense: Compound words
word: sonomarker
sense: Compound words
word: waymarker
sense: Multiword expressions
word: air marker
sense: Multiword expressions
word: china marker
sense: Multiword expressions
word: discourse marker
sense: Multiword expressions
word: dry marker
sense: Multiword expressions
word: epistemic marker
sense: Multiword expressions
word: exclamative marker
sense: Multiword expressions
word: fan marker
sense: Multiword expressions
word: genetic marker
sense: Multiword expressions
word: grave marker
sense: Multiword expressions
word: hesitation marker
sense: Multiword expressions
word: Hydro Marker
sense: Multiword expressions
word: infinitive marker
sense: Multiword expressions
word: inner marker
sense: Multiword expressions
word: lay down the marker
sense: Multiword expressions
word: locator outer marker
sense: Multiword expressions
word: magic marker
sense: Multiword expressions
word: Magic Marker
sense: Multiword expressions
word: marker beacon
sense: Multiword expressions
word: marker bed
sense: Multiword expressions
word: marker gene
sense: Multiword expressions
word: marker horizon
sense: Multiword expressions
word: marker interface → marker interface pattern
sense: Multiword expressions
word: marker light
sense: Multiword expressions
word: marker pen
sense: Multiword expressions
word: meal marker
sense: Multiword expressions
word: middle marker
sense: Multiword expressions
word: mile marker
sense: Multiword expressions
word: non-manual marker
sense: Multiword expressions
word: OB marker
sense: Multiword expressions
word: on-time marker
sense: Multiword expressions
word: outer marker
sense: Multiword expressions
word: paragraph marker
sense: Multiword expressions
word: permanent marker
sense: Multiword expressions
word: slap marker
sense: Multiword expressions
word: time marker
sense: Multiword expressions
word: whiteboard marker
sense: Multiword expressions
word: zero mile marker
Related terms: man marker
man-marker