Bookmark

//ˈbʊk.mɑː(ɹ)k// noun, verb

noun, verb ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 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. 2
    a marker (a piece of paper or ribbon) placed between the pages of a book to mark the reader's place wordnet
  3. 3
    A record of the address of a file or Internet page, serving as a shortcut to it.
  4. 4
    A pointer found in a nonclustered index to a row in a clustered index or a table heap
Verb
  1. 1
    To create a bookmark. transitive

Synonyms

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bookmarkerbench markcairnfavouriteslandmarklighthouse

Example

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"You should bookmark this webpage."

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”).

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