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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
marker
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Magic Marker
marker pen
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
genetic
▪ In the larger context your parents inherited their blood groups and other genetic markers from their ancestors.
▪ Research is currently in progress to detect an accurate genetic marker for the disease.
other
▪ If you look carefully at the connector body you will see a triangle or other marker indicating pin 1.
▪ When other markers of electrical instability are used such as late potentials or programmed ventricular stimulation this relationship still holds.
▪ Once you have established where the cannon ball hits place a small coin or other marker directly over the spot.
useful
▪ Left of this, the black, diamond-shaped Coal Face forms a useful half way marker.
▪ This suggests that such indices are unlikely to provide useful markers for the identification of colorectal cancer risk as previously proposed.
▪ Iron is present in each as traces, but even so provides useful markers.
■ NOUN
dna
▪ This method provides a means of obtaining DNA markers distributed along the length of a specific restriction fragment.
identity
▪ Central to these processes are identity markers and rules.
pen
▪ I m going to get a marker pen and colour in one side - hey presto, a KeaneKickmaster.
▪ Works in marker pen can be reproduced on colour photocopiers or by printing and need not be displayed themselves.
▪ The other significant variable in marker pen work is the paper type.
▪ There were several red-tipped pins protruding from it and an area of Soho had been ringed in red marker pen.
▪ Beware of marker pens, as their ink tends to seep deeply into the wood.
size
▪ The 28S and 18S ribosomal RNAs were used as size markers.
▪ The size markers are shown on the right hand side.
■ VERB
identify
▪ The burden of analysis is consequently transferred to identifying the formal markers of topic-shift in discourse.
place
▪ Others were so big and free of obstacles that the drill of placing markers seemed pointless.
put
▪ I shall return to that point later, but I want to put down a clear marker now.
▪ The planners put red and white markers on the house-tops to indicate where it would go.
▪ Stevie went to lift his ball and put a marker down.
▪ We put a marker buoy over the site and a pair of divers went over the side to investigate.
▪ When she shut the door behind her he put the marker in place and laid the book carefully on his bedside table.
use
▪ The 28S and 18S ribosomal RNAs were used as size markers.
▪ Others use a fine marker to write the new letters in an open space on the top of the key.
▪ The conditions were ideal for showing off the practicalities of using markers.
▪ Later on, Louisa found that she could begin drawing pictures in her mind without even using markers and paper.
▪ Some word-processing programs use block markers to identify the position of a selected portion of the document.
▪ Make sure you use non-toxic glues, markers and other materials if you plan to eat the hard-cooked eggs.
▪ Transit times were determined using a multiple dose marker technique.
▪ After the catheter placement, we used a radioactive marker to delineate the catheter position and recording sites.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
indelible ink/pencil/marker etc
▪ All voters' hands will be dyed with indelible ink, and both the vote and the count will be conducted locally.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A granite marker shows where the battle took place.
▪ The card was signed with a silver marker.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Assessment of intestinal permeability in ulcerative colitis after the ingestion of various markers has yielded conflicting results.
▪ Both are considered by some as the most reliable markers of disease activity in Crohn's disease.
▪ He looked again at the scatter of markers, hoping that some system of lines might appear, some focal point.
▪ Make sure you use non-toxic glues, markers and other materials if you plan to eat the hard-cooked eggs.
▪ Others use a fine marker to write the new letters in an open space on the top of the key.
▪ Others were so big and free of obstacles that the drill of placing markers seemed pointless.
▪ The book narrates the entire trans-peninsular highway by kilometer marker.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Marker

Marker \Mark"er\, n. One who or that which marks. Specifically:

  1. One who keeps account of a game played, as of billiards.

  2. A counter used in card playing and other games.

  3. (Mil.) The soldier who forms the pilot of a wheeling column, or marks the direction of an alignment.

  4. An attachment to a sewing machine for marking a line on the fabric by creasing it.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
marker

Old English mearcere "writer, notary" (glossing Latin notarius "clerk"), literally "one who marks," agent noun from mark (v). Not found again until late 15c., hence modern use is perhaps a separate formation. Meaning "monument stone" is from 1888. Meaning "felt-tipped marker pen" is from 1951, so called because their purpose was to "highlight" text.

Wiktionary
marker

n. 1 An object used to mark a location. 2 Someone or something that marks. 3 # One who keeps account of a game played, as of billiards. 4 # A counter used in card games and other games. 5 # The soldier who forms the pilot of a wheeling column, or marks the direction of an alignment. 6 # An attachment to a sewing machine for marking a line on the fabric by crease it. 7 (rfdef: English) 8 A felt-tipped pen. 9 (context slang English) A signed note of a debt to be paid. 10 (context slang figuratively English) A nonmonetary debt owed to someone, especially in return for a favor. 11 (context paintball English) A device that fires a paintball 12 (context sports English) A defending player who stays close to an opponent in order to mark them. vb. To mark or write on (something) using a #Noun

WordNet
marker
  1. n. some conspicuous object used to distinguish or mark something; "the buoys were markers for the channel"

  2. a distinguishing symbol; "the owner's mark was on all the sheep" [syn: marking, mark]

  3. a writing implement for making a mark

Wikipedia
Marker

Marker may refer to:

  • Marker pen, a felt-tipped pen used for drawing and/or coloring
  • Marker (linguistics), a morpheme that indicates some grammatical function
  • Marker (telecommunications), a special-purpose computer
  • Marker, a set of sewing patterns placed over cloth to be cut
  • Marker or Clapperboard, equipment used during filming
  • Paintball marker or paintball gun, an air gun
  • Biological marker, or biomarker, a substance used as an indicator of a biological state
  • Genetic marker, a DNA sequence with a known location associated with a particular gene or trait
  • Historical marker, a plaque erected at historically significant locations
  • Survey marker, an object placed to mark a point
  • Boundary marker, an object that identifies a land boundary
Marker (linguistics)

In linguistics, a marker is a free or bound morpheme that indicates the grammatical function of the marked word, phrase, or sentence. Most characteristically, markers occur as clitics or inflectional affixes. In analytic languages and agglutinative languages, markers are generally easily distinguished. In fusional languages and polysynthetic languages, this is often not the case. For example, in Latin, a highly fusional language, the word amo ("I love") is marked by suffix -o for indicative mood, active voice, first person, singular, present tense. Analytic languages tend to have a relatively limited number of markers.

Markers should be distinguished from the linguistic concept of markedness. An unmarked form is the basic "neutral" form of a word, typically used as its dictionary lemma, such as—in English—for nouns the singular (e.g. cat versus cats), and for verbs the infinitive (e.g. to eat versus eats, ate and eaten). Unmarked forms (e.g. the nominative case in many languages) tend to be less likely to have markers, but this is not true for all languages (compare Latin). Conversely, a marked form may happen to have a zero affix, like the genitive plural of some nouns in Russian (e.g. сапог). In some languages, the same forms of a marker have multiple functions, such as when used in different cases or declensions (for example -is in Latin).

Marker (TV series)

Marker is an American hour-long television drama that premiered on the UPN on January 17, 1995. It is set in and was filmed in Hawaii.

The series focuses on Richard DeMorra (played by Richard Grieco), a man given a strange inheritance from his late father: markers which were given in the past by his father to those who had helped him achieve his success. He receives these once per episode from one of those people, leading him on varied adventures as he tries to follow through on his father's legacy.

Other members of the cast include Gates McFadden, who plays his father's young widow, and Andy Bumatai as a helpful local character, Danny Kahala.

The show lasted for 13 episodes and was advertised with the tagline: "America's Coolest Hero".

Marker (ski bindings)

Marker has been a manufacturer of alpine ski bindings since 1952. Founded by Hannes Marker, the company is known for pioneering releasable binding technology. Marker's first model, the Duplex was followed in 1953 by the Simplex toe binding which was a huge success in the 1950s. New models introduced in the 1980s were major competitors on the alpine racing circuit. Marker remained independent until the 1980s, since then the company ownership switched hands several times until becoming part of the K2 Sports group, which in turn was purchased by Jarden in 2007.

Marker (novel)

Marker is a 2005 thriller novel by Robin Cook.

The plot entails mysterious deaths investigated by Jack Stapleton and Laurie Montgomery, characters from previous novels by Cook.

Marker (telecommunications)

A marker is a type of special purpose control system that was used in electromechanical telephone central office switches. Central office switches are the large devices that telephone companies use to make the connections that support telephone calls. The switch makes voice connections between users, and to control equipment such as that used to detect dialed numbers.

Markers were sometimes referred to as special purpose computers but, lacking stored program control, they were not computers according to the understanding of the middle 20th Century. After unfruitful German efforts in the 1920s, they were successfully developed at Bell Labs in the 1930s to support the then new generation of crossbar switches which were replacing the Step-by-Step switches and Panel switches of the first generation of automatic switching.

Markers were built from relays ( wire spring relays and other kinds). Different types of markers performed various specialized hard-wired operations. For example, 1XB switches had separate markers for incoming and outgoing calls. 5XB switches had dial tone markers to select one of a number of shared digit receivers (termed originating registers) and connect it to a subscriber who wished to make a telephone call. The digit receiver would collect the digits of the call and make them available to other markers which would use them for routing purposes. In this case the Completing Marker would mark a proper path of idle links for the call to make through the mechanical voice switching matrix.

Markers were used in the design of switches from the 1930s until the late 1960s when they were replaced with software controlled electronic computers of modern design.

The term marker came from its use to mark a path of links through the switching fabric. A marker's comprehensive view of the switching fabric allowed it to find and assemble a path from one terminal to another, if the links were available, unlike the earlier graded progressive systems in which a path might not be found.

During the middle 20th Century markers in Bell System exchanges, being complex common control circuits with short holding time, acquired other functions that were only needed once or twice per telephone call, including outgoing digit translation and enforcement of different policies upon different classes of service in the provision of features to customers. This practice evolved into Customer Groups, allowing the addition of Centrex features to 5XB switch. These were the most complex markers made, and were abandoned in the 1970s and 1980s when Stored Program Control became mature.

Markers were mostly associated with crossbar switches, but many non Bell System crossbar exchanges did not use them. Where those exchanges had markers, for example in the British TXK or the Ericsson ARM, they were simpler, the digit translation jobs that were added to Bell System markers being handled by other equipment.

Usage examples of "marker".

Bones came off the Delta flight to find a young guy with more hair and gold jewelry than he needed holding a square of laundry cardboard that said mr barbone in black Magic Marker.

She doubted the basophil spike was truly an early marker for the disease.

Strung precariously over the third and steepest waterfall along the entire Bindadnay, this bridge also served as the official boundary marker between Benji territory and the Unghatti forest.

Fearing, however, to make use of any valuable piece of paper, I hesitated for a moment, then recollected that I had seen in the famous breviary, which was on the table beside me, an old paper quite yellow with age, and which had served as a marker for centuries, kept there by the request of the heirs.

With Ryan lighting the loculus like a tiny movie set, I placed my Swiss Army knife as a scale marker, and took shots from several angles.

I have some overdue political favors that should generate funding, and I intend to call in those markers now.

Pathfinder Backers-Up were ordered to overshoot existing markers by two or three seconds.

Albert Campion, private and unwilling investigator, supported, as well as the paraphernalia belonging to these gentlemen, thirty-seven ash trays, each inscribed with varying advertising matter, a polyanthus rosetree in a remarkable pot, a cracked bottle of solidified ink, and a Bible with a red marker.

Simon had spent too much time preparing for his assignment in Leeds not to recognize the accepted markers for psychopathy in a background history.

The monitors were synchronized with the radiometer and changed view at every ten-mile marker.

It was good for schooning, too, and in little time Danlo reached the thirty-mile markers that demarcate the boundary of Neverness Island.

He had unique hair, wavy black shot with red, a genetic marker of some Soli forebear who had tampered with the family chromosomes.

Even across the distance of the Gulf, it is possible to identify certain of the supergiant marker stars employed in celestial navigation within the Orion Arm.

She emptied the basket on the dump and handed the tallyman a wooden marker: Lizzie guessed the markers were used to calculate the wages at the end of the week.

Harmon Pierce Haverstraw, age five minutes, temporary address, North American Continental Thruway 26-West, Mile Marker 632.