Marker
['mɑːkə] or ['mɑrkɚ]
Definition
(noun.) some conspicuous object used to distinguish or mark something; 'the buoys were markers for the channel'.
(noun.) a writing implement for making a mark.
(noun.) a distinguishing symbol; 'the owner's mark was on all the sheep'.
Editor: Seth--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) One who or that which marks.
(n.) One who keeps account of a game played, as of billiards.
(n.) A counter used in card playing and other games.
(n.) The soldier who forms the pilot of a wheeling column, or marks the direction of an alignment.
(n.) An attachment to a sewing machine for marking a line on the fabric by creasing it.
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Examples
- Anselmo held the wire in his hand, his right hand, and he crouched behind the stone marker and looked down the road and across the bridge. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- By a mechanical device, tape is drawn uniformly under the light marker _P_ attached to the armature. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Didn't he shoot Captain Marker? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The billiard-marker and the other? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- If _K_ is closed for a longer time, a short dash is made by the marker, and, in general, the length of time that _K_ is closed determines the length of the marks recorded on the tape. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Is Mrs. Marker there? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- I opened my ninth book at a very special passage, and put the fan in as a marker, to keep the place. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Ah, here is the good Mrs. Marker! Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Tip had turned his liberty to hopeful account by becoming a billiard-marker. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- I forgot to tell you that Mrs. Marker, the housekeeper, had been in there tidying not very long before--about a quarter of an hour, she says. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- If _K_ is closed for but a short time, the armature is drawn down for but a short interval, and the marker registers a dot on the tape. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- No more gambling business, hay, like that when we shot Captain Marker? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- She raised her head and looked down at Anselmo crouched behind the stone marker. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Mrs. Marker, you can go. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- His household used to consist of an elderly housekeeper, Mrs. Marker, and of a maid, Susan Tarlton. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
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