bookmark
A strip of material used to mark a place in a bookA strip of material used to mark a place in a book.
Recorded UK: Speaker: Vealhurl Recorder: Vealhurl, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
Translations
9 languagesBy meaning 1
By meaning 2
By meaning 2
Examples
34 sentencesI bookmarked this website.
Я додав цей сайт до улюблених сайтів. — deniko
ruЯ добавил этот сайт в закладки. — Karok
deIch habe auf dieser Webseite ein Lesezeichen gesetzt. — Yorwba
I forgot to bookmark that page.
Tom used an old postcard as a bookmark.
deTom verwendete eine alte Postkarte als Lesezeichen. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
Meaning
3 sensesA 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.
Lesezeichen
закла́дкаzakládka, ляссе́ljassɛ́
закла́дкаzakládka
a marker (a piece of paper or ribbon) placed between the pages of a book to mark the reader's place
A record of the address of a file or Internet page, serving as a shortcut to it.
Lesezeichen, Bookmark
закла́дкаzakládka, и́збранноеízbrannoje, бу́кмаркbúkmark
A pointer found in a nonclustered index to a row in a clustered index or a table heap
Origin
From Middle English *boke-merk, *boke-merke (attested only in the bare form merk (“bookmarFrom 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”).
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Forms
plural: bookmarksSynonyms
2 synonyms- a marker (a piece of paper or ribbon) placed between the pages of a book to mark the reader's place:bookmarker
Word family
1 related wordsSee also
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