marker

See also Marker

English

Wikipedia

Pronunciation

• 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.

A man firing a paintball marker.

Noun

marker (plural markers)

1. An object used to mark a location.
2. Someone or something that marks.
   1. One who keeps account of a game played, as of billiards.
   2. A counter used in card games and other games.
   3. The soldier who forms the pilot of a wheeling column, or marks the direction of an alignment.
   4. An attachment to a sewing machine for marking a line on the fabric by creasing it.
3. A felt-tipped pen.
4. (slang) A signed note of a debt to be paid.
5. (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.

6. (paintball) A device that fires a paintball
7. (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.

Synonyms

• (felt-tipped pen): marker pen

Derived terms

• biomarker
• discourse marker
• magic marker
• man marker / [[man-marker
• marker bed
• marker gene
• on-time marker

Translations

object to mark location

• French: marqueur (fr) m
• Jèrriais: mèrtcheux m

• Russian: метка (ru) (métka) f , указатель (ru) (ukazátelʹ) m 

something that marks

• French: marqueur (fr) m

• Jèrriais: mèrtcheux m

marker pen — see marker pen

note of debt

fires a paintball

• French: marqueur (fr) m

• Greek: μαρκαδόρος (el) m (markadóros) (markadóros)

Verb

marker (third-person singular simple present markers, present participle markering, simple past and past participle markered)

1. 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."

Anagrams

• Kramer
• remark, re-mark

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Danish

Noun

marker c

1. plural indefinite of mark

Verb

marker or markér

1. imperative of markere

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Swedish

Noun

marker

1. indefinite plural of mark