Marker

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɑː(r)kÉ™(r)

Full definition of marker

Noun

1. An object used to mark a location.
2. Someone or something that marks.
1. One who keeps account of a game played, as of billiards.
2. A counter used in card games and other games.
3. The soldier who forms the pilot of a wheeling column, or marks the direction of an alignment.
4. An attachment to a sewing machine for marking a line on the fabric by creasing it.
• 2013, Phil McNulty, "Man City 4-1 Man Utd", BBC Sport, 22 September 2013:Pellegrini insisted this was a game City had to win - this they did and with the sort of performance that put down a marker for how the Chilean wants his team to play.
3. A felt-tipped pen.
4. (slang) A signed note of a debt to be paid.
5. (slang, figuratively) A nonmonetary debt owed to someone, especially in return for a favor.We may not be able to do this alone. Maybe it’s time to call in some of our markers.
6. (paintball) A device that fires a paintball
7. (sports) A defending player who stays close to an opponent in order to mark them.
• 2012, April 21, Jonathan Jurejko, Newcastle 3-0 Stoke, He skipped past Marc Wilson before clipping a delicious cross into the Stoke danger zone, where Cisse's sharp movement allowed him to escape marker Robert Huth and send a far-post header crashing against the crossbar. And Cabaye was waiting to pounce on the rebound with a close range header.

Synonyms

• (felt-tipped pen) marker pen

Derived terms

• biomarker
• discourse marker
• magic marker
• man marker
  man-marker
• marker bed
• marker gene
• on-time marker
• permanent marker
• whiteboard marker

Verb

1. To mark or write on (something) using a marker
• 2002, July 5, Mike Sula, Everything Must Go, On one page someone has markered: "Remember, you are your own best thing."

Anagrams

• Kramer
• remark, re-mark