English Online Dictionary. What means bookmark? What does bookmark mean?
English
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”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbʊk.mɑː(ɹ)k/
Noun
bookmark (plural bookmarks)
- A strip of material used to mark a place in a book.
- Synonym: bookmarker
- (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
Derived terms
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Verb
bookmark (third-person singular simple present bookmarks, present participle bookmarking, simple past and past participle bookmarked)
- (computing, transitive) To create a bookmark.