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bookmark

noun
/ˈbʊkmɑːk/UK/ˈbʊkmɑːɹk/US/ˈbɵkmɑːk/

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”).

  1. inherited from *boke-merk✻

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 record of the address of a file or Internet page, serving as a shortcut to it.

  3. A pointer found in a nonclustered index to a row in a clustered index or a table heap

  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. To create a bookmark.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for bookmark. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA