marker en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- (Australia) audio
- /ˈmɑː(ɹ)kə(ɹ)/
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.
Meanings
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(countable, uncountable) Someone or something that creates marks, particularly ▸ A felt-tipped pen, a marker pen.
Don't use the permanent marker on the whiteboard.
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(countable, uncountable) Someone or something that creates marks, particularly ▸ A scorekeeper, especially one who tallies billiard scores.
"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.
1901 [1878], chapter 8, in Constance Garnett, transl., Anna Karenina, translation of Анна Каренина (Anna Karenina) by Leo Tolstoy, part 7:
- (countable, uncountable) Someone or something that creates marks, particularly ▸ A device that fires a paintball.
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(countable, uncountable) Someone or something used to mark a position or amount, particularly
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.
1990 April 7, Deborah Schwartz, “Gay Group Hires Straight Man”, in Gay Community News, page 5:
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(countable, uncountable) Someone or something used to mark a position or amount, particularly ▸ A real or virtual objective, something to be aimed for.
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.
2013 September 22, Phil McNulty, “Man City 4-1 Man Utd”, in BBC Sport:
- (countable, uncountable) 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.
- (countable, uncountable) 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.
- (US, countable, slang, uncountable) Someone or something used to mark a position or amount, particularly ▸ Synonym of IOU, an informal record of a debt.
- (countable, uncountable) Someone or something used to mark a position or amount, particularly ▸ A free or bound morpheme indicating a grammatical function.
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(abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable) Someone or something used to mark a position or amount, particularly ▸ Ellipsis of discourse marker.
alt of discourse marker
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(countable, uncountable) 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.
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.
2012, N Manikanda Boopathi, Genetic Mapping and Marker Assisted Selection: Basics, Practice and Benefits, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 88:
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(countable, uncountable) Someone or something used to mark a position or amount, particularly ▸ A substance used as an indicator for diagnosis or other analysis, a biomarker.
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.
2019, Justin Benson, directed by Justin Benson, Synchronic, spoken by Nurse Hall and Steve Denube (Rhonda Johnson Dents and Anthony Mackie), XYZ Films, →OCLC:
- (countable, uncountable) 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.
- (countable, uncountable) Someone or something used to mark a position or amount, particularly ▸ A sewing machine attachment that creases the fabric to mark a line
- (countable, uncountable) Someone or something used to mark a position or amount, particularly ▸ A counter, especially one used in card games or backgammon.
- (countable, uncountable) 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.
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(UK, countable, uncountable) Someone who assigns marks on tests, examinations, etc.; a grader.
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! […]
2020 July 15, Mike Brown tells Paul Clifton, “Leading London's "hidden heroes"”, in Rail, page 47:
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(colloquial, uncountable) The ink marks or residue of a felt-tipped pen.
Susie got marker all over the walls.
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(countable, figuratively, uncountable) A personal favor owed to someone, whether written or not.
We may not be able to do this alone. Maybe it’s time to call in some of our markers.
- (countable, qualifier:competition law, uncountable) 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.
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(countable, uncountable) A player on defense used to mark one or more offensive players.
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”, in BBC Sport:
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(countable, dated, uncountable) A player employed by a private club to compete against members.
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.
1903, Eustace Miles, Racquets, tennis, and squash, New York: Appleton & Co., page 39:I played seven sets of doubles with Mitchell (the second best player in Ceylon) and David, the native marker.
1907 June 1, “Mr. A. F. Wilding's Tour”, in New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, No. 13453, page 7: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.
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)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.
1904 "Squash and Racquets" in Frederick George Aflalo ed. The sportsman's book for India p.519 (London: Horace Marshall & Son)
- (Philippines, countable, informal, uncountable) A point, unit of scoring in a game or competition.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| markers | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Coordinates
Deriveds
genetic marker (Multiword expressions) · discourse marker (Multiword expressions) · mile marker (Multiword expressions) · OB marker (Multiword expressions) · hesitation marker (Multiword expressions) · marker beacon (Multiword expressions) · epistemic marker (Multiword expressions) · marker gene (Multiword expressions) · marker horizon (Multiword expressions) · hitmarker (Compound words) · exclamative marker (Multiword expressions) · on-time marker (Multiword expressions) · seromarker (Compound words) · neuromarker (Compound words) · marker pen (Multiword expressions) · marker interface → marker interface pattern (Multiword expressions) · lay down the marker (Multiword expressions) · locator outer marker (Multiword expressions) · magic marker (Multiword expressions) · biomarker (Compound words) · time marker (Multiword expressions) · immunomarker (Compound words) · fan marker (Multiword expressions) · glycomarker (Compound words) · air marker (Multiword expressions) · fluoromarker (Compound words) · exomarker (Compound words) · multimarker (Compound words) · paragraph marker (Multiword expressions) · marker light (Multiword expressions) · dry marker (Multiword expressions) · Hydro Marker (Multiword expressions) · placemarker (Compound words) · inner marker (Multiword expressions) · phosphomarker (Compound words) · phytomarker (Compound words) · outer marker (Multiword expressions) · bookmarker (Compound words) · chemomarker (Compound words) · backmarker (Compound words) · geomarker (Compound words) · middle marker (Multiword expressions) · permanent marker (Multiword expressions) · intermarker (Compound words) · oncomarker (Compound words) · whiteboard marker (Multiword expressions) · osteomarker (Compound words) · marker bed (Multiword expressions) · waymarker (Compound words) · grave marker (Multiword expressions) · sonomarker (Compound words) · markerboard (Compound words) · non-manual marker (Multiword expressions) · slap marker (Multiword expressions) · Magic Marker (Multiword expressions) · zero mile marker (Multiword expressions) · radiomarker (Compound words) · phylomarker (Compound words) · china marker (Multiword expressions) · meal marker (Multiword expressions) · markerless (Compound words) · infinitive marker (Multiword expressions)
Relateds
Synonyms
Translations (48)
it marcatore (a gene or DNA sequence with a known location) · it quota (note of debt) · pt marcador (a device that fires a paintball) · pt marcador (someone or something that marks) · fr marqueur (a gene or DNA sequence with a known location) · hu kötelezvény (note of debt) · el μαρκαδόρος (a device that fires a paintball) · pl marker (a gene or DNA sequence with a known location) · ru ме́тка (object used to mark location) · sk označenie (object used to mark location) · pt marcador (a gene or DNA sequence with a known location) · sk značka (object used to mark location) · hu marker (a gene or DNA sequence with a known location) · hu tábla (someone or something that marks) · mk пока́зател (object used to mark location) · hu jelzés (object used to mark location) · hu adóslevél (note of debt) · nl merker (a gene or DNA sequence with a known location) · fa نشانگر (a gene or DNA sequence with a known location) · sk marka (object used to mark location) · fr tetrahedron (object used to mark location) · nrf mèrtcheux (someone or something that marks) · hu jelző (someone or something that marks) · es marcador (free or bound morpheme indicating a grammatical function) · hu jelölő (someone or something that marks) · fr marqueur (a device that fires a paintball) · pt marco (object used to mark location) · ru указа́тель (object used to mark location) · nb markør (a gene or DNA sequence with a known location) · es venero (object used to mark location) · hu jel (object used to mark location) · vi chỉ tố (free or bound morpheme indicating a grammatical function) · gl marcador (a gene or DNA sequence with a known location) · fr marqueur (someone or something that marks) · fr marqueur (object used to mark location) · nb markør (object used to mark location) · de Markierung (object used to mark location) · hu ígérvény (note of debt) · hu mutató (someone or something that marks) · nn markør (a gene or DNA sequence with a known location) · sk míľnik (object used to mark location) · hu kijelző (someone or something that marks) · es marcador (a gene or DNA sequence with a known location) · it nota (note of debt) · nn markør (object used to mark location) · nrf mèrtcheux (object used to mark location) · ro marcator (someone or something that marks) · ro marker (object used to mark location)