Crossword clues for earmark
earmark
- Designate European rescue vessel to guard strip of water
- Designate for a purpose
- Set aside specially, as funds
- Telltale sign
- Distinguishing characteristic
- Set aside for later
- Tag, in a way
- Set aside for a specific purpose
- Legislator's source of pork
- Tag for a specific purpose
- Set aside for future use
- Set aside for a particular purpose
- Note for future use
- Flag for future reference
- Designation with an agricultural etymology
- Designation first meant literally
- Allocate, funding-wise
- Designate specifically
- Distinctive attribute
- Tag for a particular purpose
- Politician's add-on
- Identification mark on the ear of a domestic animal
- A distinctive characteristic or attribute
- Identify
- Set aside for a special purpose
- Mare panicking on ship - keep back!
- Single out animal sanctuary, English branch first
- Set aside, reserve
- Set aside, designate
- Set aside weapon stocked by English vessel
- Set aside for a purpose
- Set aside energy and power to be supplied to boat
- Flag with damage carried by European vessel
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Earmark \Ear"mark`\ ([=e]r"m[aum]rk`), n.
A mark on the ear of sheep, oxen, dogs, etc., as by cropping or slitting.
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A mark for identification; a distinguishing mark.
Money is said to have no earmark.
--Wharton.Flying, he [a slave] should be described by the rounding of his head, and his earmark.
--Robynson (More's Utopia).A set of intellectual ideas . . . have earmarks upon them, no tokens of a particular proprietor.
--Burrow.
Earmark \Ear"mark`\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Earmarked; p. pr. & vb. n. Earmarking.]
To mark, as sheep, by cropping or slitting the ear.
To designate or reserve for a specific purpose; as, the alumni fund was earmarked for dormitory construction.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, "to identify by an earmark," from earmark (n.). Meaning "to set aside money for a special purpose" is attested by 1868. Related: Earmarked; earmarking.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A mark or deformation of the ear of an animal, intended to indicate ownership. 2 (context US politics English) The designation of specific projects in appropriations of funding for general programs. 3 A mark for identification; a distinguishing mark. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To mark (as of sheep) by slitting the ear. 2 (context transitive by extension English) To specify or set aside for a particular purpose.
WordNet
n. identification mark on the ear of a domestic animal
a distinctive characteristic or attribute [syn: hallmark, trademark, stylemark]
v. give or assign a share of money or time to a particular person or cause; "I will earmark this money for your research" [syn: allow, appropriate, set aside, reserve]
Wikipedia
Earmark may refer to:
- Earmark (agriculture), cuts or marks in the ears of animals made to show ownership
- Earmark (politics), a legislative provision that directs funds to be spent on specific projects
- Earmark (finance), a requirement that a source of revenue be devoted to a specific public expenditure
An earmark is a legislative (especially congressional) provision that directs approved funds to be spent on specific projects, or that directs specific exemptions from taxes or mandated fees. The term "earmark" is used in this sense in several countries, such as the United States and South Africa.
Earmarks come in two varieties: Hard earmarks, or "hardmarks", found in legislation, and soft earmarks, or "softmarks", found in the text of congressional committee reports. Hard earmarks are legally binding, whereas soft earmarks are not but are customarily acted upon as if they were. Typically, a legislator seeks to insert earmarks that direct a specified amount of money to a particular organization or project in their home state or district.
An earmark is a cut or mark in the ear of livestock animals such as cattle, deer, pigs, goats, camels or sheep, made to show ownership, year of birth or gender.
The term dates to the 16th century in England. The practice existed in the Near East up to the time of Islam. Against this, in Q. 4:119 the Qur'an quotes the Devil promising, ""I will mislead them, I will entice them, I will command them to mark the ears of livestock, and I will command them to distort the creation of God."
Earmarks are typically registered when a stock owner registers a livestock brand for their use. There are many rules and regulations concerning the use of earmarks between states and countries. Tasmanian sheep and cattle must be earmarked before they become six months old.
Generally the owner’s earmark is placed in a designated ear of a camel or sheep to indicate its gender. Typically if a registered earmark is used, it must be applied to the right ear for ewes and the left ear for female camels. The other ear of a sheep then may be used to show the year of its birth. Cattle earmarks are often a variety of knife cuts in the ear as an aid to identification, but it does not necessarily constitute proof of ownership.
Since the 1950s it has been more common to use ear tags to identify livestock because coloured tags are capable of conveying more information than earmarks. Such ear tags were popularised by New Zealand dairy farmers in the earliest successful use of them.
Because of the ubiquity of earmarking, in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, it became common parlance to call any identifying mark an earmark. In early times many politicians were country or farming folk and were adept at using such words in different ways and in creating new concepts.
Today it is common to refer to an institution's ability to designate funds for a specific use or owner as an earmark. Also, earmark has different meanings in the fields of public finance and politics.
Usage examples of "earmark".
While Zinni ran CENTCOM, Franks headed the Third Army, the command that was earmarked for duty in the event of a major conflict in the Middle East.
Here, Hambali played the critical role of coordinator, as he distributed al Qaeda funds earmarked for the joint operations.
This is the kinder, gentler way of stating that the US banks will be paid by siphoning off tax receipts earmarked for education and other provincial services.
He might well consider that twenty-five thousand pounds was too high a ransom for a tirewoman, especially when it had been earmarked for Elizabeth.
Although nothing was resolved that week, the managers soon started allocating limited funds earmarked for radio and television advertising, often allowing area managers the discretion to spend it.
But it did seem that the Harper-Erickson process, with its concomitant of a round-the-globe rocket and a practical economical rocket fuel, had at last made it a very present thing, so close indeed that I did not object when the early allotments of fuel from the satellite were earmarked for industrial power.
Temple of Lims-Kragma disavowed themselves from any contact with these Nighthawks years ago, and the Temple of Guis-Wa have their own particular brand of murders, and these murders have none of the earmarks of a ritual Blood Hunt.
Of the six portable cellular phones the group had used, one was earmarked to receive special calls, the number known only to those with authority to make them.
I guaranteed that—but it has incorporated into it a most subtle truth analyzer quite capable of earmarking any fictions you include.
All of which amounted to a steel wall of armament around Eastern Poland, Byelorussia, the Ukraine and the Baltic states of Estonia, Lithuania and Latvianow earmarked as a new circle in hell.
An interim payment of £ 10,000 on each to the bank by the end of November, which would take up the £20,000 they'd already metaphorically earmarked from the conveyancing balance for his 'pension arrears'.
If he earmarked the cash for her “little chalet,” she would live in a hotel nearby wherever she decided to build it—and he could sell this monstrosity they were sitting in.
The last I heard the Atomic Energy Commission had the prospective supply earmarked twenty years ahead.
All vehicles not earmarked for fighting are to be destroyed, fuel to be transferred into fighting vehicles.
Two of the Hrruban visitors from Team Two had earmarked a Mommy Snake and were riding it down, without regard for the organization of the Hunt or their own safety.