Definitions for marker

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marker mark·er

Spelling: [mahr-ker]

IPA: /ˈmɑr kər/

Marker is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 70 anagrams from letters in marker (aekmrr).

Definitions for marker

noun

1. a person or thing that marks.
2. something used as a mark or indication, as a bookmark or tombstone.
3. a person who records the scores, points, etc., as in a game or contest.
4. a counter used in card playing.
5. Genetics. genetic marker.
6. Psychology. an object, as a book or topcoat left at a library table, used to establish territorial possession in a public place.
7. Linguistics. an element of a construction, as a coordinating conjunction, that is not a part of either immediate constituent. an element that indicates the grammatical class or function of a construction.
8. a small radio beacon, automatically operated, used for local navigation of vessels.
9. mile-marker.
10. Also called marker pen, marking pen. a pen designed for making bold, colorful, or indelible marks, as in making signs or identifying objects.
11. Slang. a debt, especially a gambling debt. a written or signed promise to pay a debt, especially a gambling debt; a promissory note or IOU.
12. Also called marker crude. Commerce. a grade of oil on which prices of other crude oils are based.
13. Citizens Band Radio Slang. one's location while driving on a highway, as determined by the nearest milepost.

Origin of marker

First recorded in 1480-90; mark¹ + -er¹

Examples for marker

Tibby put a marker in the leaves of his Chinese Grammar and helped them.

“The point of the report is to put down a marker for future generations,” he said.

marker attempted to shoot the constable, but his revolver missed fire.

In their opinion, this would allow conservatives to lay a marker down on immigration while avoiding a shutdown for the time being.

Certainly Democrats laid a marker down for the next two years.

Jett sees this number as a marker of how much the president allows professionals to do the job.

The first "XV" explaining "Rebeck" has no marker in the original text.

The marker has been moved next to the reference to a dissecting pin in the text.

For cheetahs, marker has been at the forefront of educating people in the Middle East.

He had employed a marker, who had just marked nineteen out of the twenty.