Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word MARKER

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Definitions of MARKER

1. To mark or write on (something) using a marker
2. Someone or something that creates marks, particularly
3. Someone or something used to mark a position or amount, particularly
4. (UK) Someone who assigns marks on tests, examinations, etc.; a grader.
5. (figurative) A personal favor owed to someone, whether written or not.
6. (competitionlaw) 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.
7. (sports) A player on defense used to mark one or more offensive players.
8. (dated) A player employed by a private club to compete against members.
9. (Philippines, informal, basketball, volleyball) A point, unit of scoring in a game or competition.
10. (uncountable, colloquial) The ink marks or residue of a felt-tipped pen.

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Examples of Using MARKER in a Sentence

• A cairn is a human-made pile (or stack) of stones raised for a purpose, usually as a marker or as a burial mound.
• "Haddocks' Eyes" is an example used to elaborate on the symbolic status of the concept of "name": a name as identification marker may be assigned to anything, including another name, thus introducing different levels of symbolization.
• Adopting international standards results in creating national standards that are equivalent, or substantially the same as international standards in technical content, but may have (i) editorial differences as to appearance, use of symbols and measurement units, substitution of a point for a comma as the decimal marker, and (ii) differences resulting from conflicts in government regulations or industry-specific requirements caused by fundamental climatic, geographic, technologic, or infrastructure factors, or the stringency of safety requirements that a given standard authority considers appropriate.
• Within Western culture, magic has been linked to ideas of the Other, foreignness, and primitivism; indicating that it is "a powerful marker of cultural difference" and likewise, a non-modern phenomenon.
• Panic attacks function as a marker for assessing severity of diagnosis, course, and comorbidity (the simultaneous presence of two or more diagnoses) across an array of disorders, including, but not only limited to, anxiety disorders.
• A common example of behavior viewed as promiscuous by many cultures is the one-night stand, and its frequency is used by researchers as a marker for promiscuity.
• Although it carries no special rights, the status of city can be a marker of prestige and confer local pride.
• Age provides only a rough marker of adolescence, and scholars have not agreed upon a precise definition.
• A historical marker placed in 1958 near the lake along Highway 22 states the lake was named as the southern boundary of Chippewa (Ojibwe) territory.
• The Marathon County Park Commission has posted a geographical marker that identifies the spot (45°N, 90°W) of the exact center of the northern half of the Western Hemisphere, meaning that it is a quarter of the way around the world from the Prime Meridian and halfway from the Equator to the North Pole.
• On October 2, 2013, on I-40 in Jefferson County near the I-40 and I-81 split, a multi-vehicle collision involving a church bus, a tractor-trailer, and a SUV occurred at mile marker 423.
• Daniel Boone's last Kentucky home place is also located in Nicholas County, the Historic marker is located on US HWY 68 just past the traffic islands heading north.
• Union City, Kentucky, where vaudevillian Andrew Tribble was born A historical marker commemorates his life at Union City Park.
• Douglas planned their presidential debates in Piatt County in 1858, one of which is ornamented by a marker just south of Monticello.
• The bay at its eastern side is Israelite Bay, a locality often mentioned in Bureau of Meteorology weather reports as a geographical marker.
• A sign at the edge of town declares Burnside "Birthplace of Boy Scouts in America", and an official state historical society marker commemorates the troop.
• C-4 is composed of explosives, plastic binder, plasticizer to make it malleable, and usually a marker or odorizing taggant chemical.
• Pilgrim's Rest Cemetery, one of the oldest in Escambia County, is located across from the United Methodist Church and mentions Alco on its historic marker.
• High levels of homocysteine in the blood (hyperhomocysteinemia) is regarded as a marker of cardiovascular disease, likely working through atherogenesis, which can result in ischemic injury.
• Antoine's grave is located within the bounds of the town cemetery, although the marker has disappeared over time.

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