marker
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See also Marker
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English [edit]
Pronunciation [edit]
- Rhymes: -ɑː(r)kə(r)
A mile marker, indicating a specific position on a major road
Highlighters, a type of marker (felt-tipped pen). The paper has been markered.
Noun [edit]
marker (plural markers)
- An object used to mark a location.
- Someone or something that marks.
- One who keeps account of a game played, as of billiards.
- A counter used in card games and other games.
- The soldier who forms the pilot of a wheeling column, or marks the direction of an alignment.
- An attachment to a sewing machine for marking a line on the fabric by creasing it.
- A felt-tipped pen.
- (slang) A signed note of a debt to be paid.
- (slang, figuratively) A nonmonetary debt owed to someone, especially in return for a favor.
- We may not be able to do this alone. Maybe it’s time to call in some of our markers.
- (paintball) A device that fires a paintball
- (sports) A defending player who stays close to an opponent in order to mark them.
- 2012 April 21, Jonathan Jurejko, “Newcastle 3-0 Stoke”, BBC Sport:
- 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.
- 2012 April 21, Jonathan Jurejko, “Newcastle 3-0 Stoke”, BBC Sport:
Synonyms [edit]
- (felt-tipped pen): marker pen
Derived terms [edit]
- biomarker
- discourse marker
- magic marker
- man marker / [[man-marker
- marker bed
- marker gene
- on-time marker
Translations [edit]
object to mark location
marker pen — see marker pen
note of debt
fires a paintball
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Verb [edit]
marker (third-person singular simple present markers, present participle markering, simple past and past participle markered)
- To mark or write on (something) using a marker
- 2002 July 5, Mike Sula, “Everything Must Go”, Chicago Reader:
- On one page someone has markered: "Remember, you are your own best thing."
- 2002 July 5, Mike Sula, “Everything Must Go”, Chicago Reader:
Anagrams [edit]
Danish [edit]
Noun [edit]
marker c
- plural indefinite of mark
Verb [edit]
marker or markér
- imperative of markere
Swedish [edit]
Noun [edit]
marker
- indefinite plural of mark