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Bookmark
Definitions
- 1 A strip of material used to mark a place in a book.
"He placed a bookmark on page 234, which had an interesting footnote from the author."
- 2 a marker (a piece of paper or ribbon) placed between the pages of a book to mark the reader's place wordnet
- 3 A record of the address of a file or Internet page, serving as a shortcut to it.
- 4 A pointer found in a nonclustered index to a row in a clustered index or a table heap
- 1 To create a bookmark. transitive
Etymology
From Middle English *boke-merk, *boke-merke (attested only in the bare form merk (“bookmark”)), equivalent to book + mark. Cognate with Danish bogmærke (“bookmark”), Swedish bokmärke (“bookmark”), Norwegian bokmerke (“bookmark”), Icelandic bókamerki (“bookmark”). Eclipsed non-native Old English æstel (“bookmark”), from Old Irish astal, from Latin hastula (“little spear, splint”).
From Middle English *boke-merk, *boke-merke (attested only in the bare form merk (“bookmark”)), equivalent to book + mark. Cognate with Danish bogmærke (“bookmark”), Swedish bokmärke (“bookmark”), Norwegian bokmerke (“bookmark”), Icelandic bókamerki (“bookmark”). Eclipsed non-native Old English æstel (“bookmark”), from Old Irish astal, from Latin hastula (“little spear, splint”).
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