Meaning of marker | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Someone or something that creates marks, particularly A felt-tipped pen, a marker pen
2. Someone or something that creates marks, particularly
   countable, uncountable
3. A felt-tipped pen, a marker pen.
   countable, uncountable
4. A felt-tipped pen, a marker pen
5. A scorekeeper, especially one who tallies billiard scores.
   countable, uncountable
6. A scorekeeper, especially one who tallies billiard scores
7. A device that fires a paintball.
   countable, uncountable
8. A device that fires a paintball
9. Someone or something used to mark a position or amount, particularly
   countable, uncountable
10. A real or virtual objective, something to be aimed for
11. A real or virtual objective, something to be aimed for.
    countable, uncountable
12. 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
13. A direction issued by a camera operator for actors to be on their locations in readiness for a take.
    countable, uncountable
14. Synonym of IOU, an informal record of a debt.
    US, countable, slang, uncountable
15. A free or bound morpheme indicating a grammatical function.
    countable, uncountable
16. Ellipsis of discourse marker.
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable
17. A gene or DNA sequence with a known location on a chromosome that can be used to identify individuals or species.
    countable, uncountable
18. A substance used as an indicator for diagnosis or other analysis, a biomarker.
    countable, uncountable
19. The soldier who forms the pilot of a wheeling column or marks the direction of an alignment.
    countable, uncountable
20. A sewing machine attachment that creases the fabric to mark a line
    countable, uncountable
21. A counter, especially one used in card games or backgammon.
    countable, uncountable
22. Any of various objects that mark a place on the landscape, such as a milepost, blaze, or surveyor's cairn.
    countable, uncountable
23. Someone who assigns marks on tests, examinations, etc.; a grader.
    UK, countable, uncountable
24. The ink marks or residue of a felt-tipped pen.
    colloquial, uncountable
25. A personal favor owed to someone, whether written or not.
    countable, figuratively, uncountable
26. 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.
    countable, uncountable
27. A player on defense used to mark one or more offensive players.
    countable, uncountable
28. A player employed by a private club to compete against members.
    countable, dated, uncountable
29. A point, unit of scoring in a game or competition.
    Philippines, countable, informal, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Don't use the permanent marker on the whiteboard.”

“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.”

“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! […]”

“Susie got marker all over the walls.”

“We may not be able to do this alone. Maybe it’s time to call in some of our markers.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I played seven sets of doubles with Mitchell (the second best player in Ceylon) and David, the native marker.”

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