marker
IPA: mˈɑrkɝ
noun
- Someone or something that creates marks, particularly
- A felt-tipped pen, a marker pen.
- A scorekeeper, especially one who tallies billiard scores.
- (paintball) A device that fires a paintball.
- Someone or something used to mark a position or amount, particularly
- A real or virtual objective, something to be aimed for.
- (US, slang) Synonym of IOU, an informal record of a debt.
- (linguistics) A free or bound morpheme indicating a grammatical function.
- (biology) A gene or DNA sequence with a known location on a chromosome that can be used to identify individuals or species.
- (biology, medicine) A substance used as an indicator for diagnosis or other analysis, a biomarker.
- (military) The soldier who forms the pilot of a wheeling column or marks the direction of an alignment.
- A sewing machine attachment that creases the fabric to mark a line
- A counter, especially one used in card games or backgammon.
- Any of various objects that mark a place on the landscape, such as a milepost, blaze, or surveyor's cairn.
- (UK) Someone who assigns marks on tests, examinations, etc.; a grader.
- (colloquial) The ink marks or residue of a felt-tipped pen.
- (figurative) A personal favor owed to someone, whether written or not.
- (competition law) 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.
- (sports) A player on defense used to mark one or more offensive players.
- (dated) A player employed by a private club to compete against members.
- (Philippines, informal, basketball, volleyball) A point, unit of scoring in a game or competition.
- (linguistics) Short for discourse marker. [(linguistics) A word or phrase that marks a boundary in a discourse, typically as part of a dialogue. Discourse markers often signal topic changes, reformulations, discourse planning, stressing, hedging, or backchanneling.]
verb
- To mark or write on (something) using a marker
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Examples of "marker" in Sentences
- It includes a horizontal fiducial marker.
- All markers were used to determinate the results.
- There is the marker on the courthouse about the battle.
- Shortening of leukocyte telomeres is a marker of aging.
- The creature comes to the fork and removes the markers.
- The light side is then marked with an indelible marker.
- The arrows are the markers for the entrance to the port.
- Neumann, seeing the Marker for the first time, is astonished.
- The link to the photograph of the marker is no longer working.
- A historical marker in Cornucopia, Wisconsin commemorates the tragedy.
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