BOOKMARK

bookmark, bookmarker

(noun) a marker (a piece of paper or ribbon) placed between the pages of a book to mark the reader’s place

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Noun

bookmark (plural bookmarks)

A strip of material used to mark a place in a book.

(computing) A record of the address of a file or Internet page serving as a shortcut to it.

Synonym: favourites

(databases) A pointer found in a nonclustered index to a row in a clustered index or a table heap

Verb

bookmark (third-person singular simple present bookmarks, present participle bookmarking, simple past and past participle bookmarked)

(computing, transitive) To create a bookmark.

Source: Wiktionary


Book"mark`, n.

Definition: Something placed in a book to guide in finding a particular page or passage; also, a label in a book to designate the owner; a bookplate.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Word of the Day

10 January 2025

INTERSPERSION

(noun) the act of combining one thing at intervals among other things; “the interspersion of illustrations in the text”


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