Word: marker Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English mark Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English marker From mark + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈmɑː(ɹ)kə(ɹ)/ 1. Someone or something that creates marks, particularly Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Don't use the permanent marker on the whiteboard. 2. Someone or something that creates marks, particularly Labels: countable, uncountable Example: "It has been ready a long while," answered the marker, who had already set the balls in a triangle, and was knocking the red one about for his own diversion. 3. Someone or something that creates marks, particularly Labels: countable, uncountable 4. Someone or something used to mark a position or amount, particularly Labels: countable, uncountable Example: 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. 5. Someone or something used to mark a position or amount, particularly Labels: countable, uncountable Example: 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. 6. Someone or something used to mark a position or amount, particularly Labels: countable, uncountable 7. Someone or something used to mark a position or amount, particularly Labels: countable, uncountable 8. Someone or something used to mark a position or amount, particularly Labels: US, countable, slang, uncountable 9. Someone or something used to mark a position or amount, particularly Labels: countable, uncountable 10. Someone or something used to mark a position or amount, particularly Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable 11. Someone or something used to mark a position or amount, particularly Labels: countable, uncountable Example: 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. 12. Someone or something used to mark a position or amount, particularly Labels: countable, uncountable Example: 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. 13. Someone or something used to mark a position or amount, particularly Labels: countable, uncountable 14. Someone or something used to mark a position or amount, particularly Labels: countable, uncountable 15. Someone or something used to mark a position or amount, particularly Labels: countable, uncountable 16. Someone or something used to mark a position or amount, particularly Labels: countable, uncountable 17. Someone who assigns marks on tests, examinations, etc.; a grader. Labels: UK, countable, uncountable Example: 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! […] 18. The ink marks or residue of a felt-tipped pen. Labels: colloquial, uncountable Example: Susie got marker all over the walls. 19. A personal favor owed to someone, whether written or not. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable Example: We may not be able to do this alone. Maybe it’s time to call in some of our markers. 20. 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. Labels: countable, uncountable 21. A player on defense used to mark one or more offensive players. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: 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. 22. A player employed by a private club to compete against members. Labels: countable, dated, uncountable Example: 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. Example: 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. 23. A point, unit of scoring in a game or competition. Labels: Philippines, countable, informal, uncountable