marker
/ˈmɑː(ɹ)kə(ɹ)/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.87 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Someone or something used to mark a position or amount, particularly
American usage; Countable; Slang; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Don't use the permanent marker on the whiteboard."
- ""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."
- "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."
- "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."
- "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."
- "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."
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.
Usage
- Countable
- Uncountable
- American usage
- Slang
- British usage
- Colloquial
- Dated
- Informal