Pronunciations (2)
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/ˈmɑː(ɹ)kə(ɹ)/
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ˈmɑː(ɹ)kə(ɹ)
Noun
Someone or something that creates marks, particularly A felt-tipped pen, a marker pen.
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Don't use the permanent marker on the whiteboard.
Someone or something that creates marks, particularly A scorekeeper, especially one who tallies billiard scores.
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"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.
Someone or something that creates marks, particularly A device that fires a paintball.
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Someone or something used to mark a position or amount, particularly
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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.
Someone or something used to mark a position or amount, particularly A real or virtual objective, something to be aimed for.
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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.
Someone or something used to mark a position or amount, particularly 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.
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Someone or something used to mark a position or amount, particularly 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. A direction issued by a camera operator for actors to be on their locations in readiness for a take.
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Someone or something used to mark a position or amount, particularly Synonym of IOU, an informal record of a debt.
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Someone or something used to mark a position or amount, particularly A free or bound morpheme indicating a grammatical function.
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Someone or something used to mark a position or amount, particularly A gene or DNA sequence with a known location on a chromosome that can be used to identify individuals or species.
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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.
Someone or something used to mark a position or amount, particularly A substance used as an indicator for diagnosis or other analysis, a biomarker.
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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.
Someone or something used to mark a position or amount, particularly The soldier who forms the pilot of a wheeling column or marks the direction of an alignment.
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Someone or something used to mark a position or amount, particularly A sewing machine attachment that creases the fabric to mark a line
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Someone or something used to mark a position or amount, particularly A counter, especially one used in card games or backgammon.
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Someone or something used to mark a position or amount, particularly Any of various objects that mark a place on the landscape, such as a milepost, blaze, or surveyor's cairn.
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Someone who assigns marks on tests, examinations, etc.; a grader.
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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! […]
The ink marks or residue of a felt-tipped pen.
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Susie got marker all over the walls.
A personal favor owed to someone, whether written or not.
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We may not be able to do this alone. Maybe it’s time to call in some of our markers.
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.
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A player on defense used to mark one or more offensive players.
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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.
A player employed by a private club to compete against members.
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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.
A point, unit of scoring in a game or competition.
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Verb
To mark or write on (something) using a marker
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On one page someone has markered: "Remember, you are your own best thing."
Noun
some conspicuous object used to distinguish or mark something
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the buoys were markers for the channel
a distinguishing symbol
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the owner's mark was on all the sheep
a writing implement for making a mark
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