bookmark

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English

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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/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)

Noun

bookmark (plural bookmarks)

  1. A strip of material used to mark a place in a book.
  2. (computing) A record of the address of a file or Internet page, serving as a shortcut to it.
    Synonym: favourites
  3. (databases) A pointer found in a nonclustered index to a row in a clustered index or a table heap

Translations

record of the address of a file or page

Verb

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

  1. (computing, transitive) To create a bookmark.

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