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Webster 1913 Edition


Bookmark

Book′markˊ

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Noun.
Something placed in a book to guide in finding a particular page or passage; also, a label in a book to designate the owner; a bookplate.

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Bookmark

Bookmark

See also: bookmark

German

Noun

Bookmark n, m (genitive Bookmarks, plural Bookmarks)
Bookmark f (genitive Bookmark, plural Bookmarks)

  1. (computing) bookmark

Usage notes

  • Bookmark is one of a small number of German nouns which can or historically could have all three genders; see the appendix.

Synonyms

bookmark

bookmark

See also: Bookmark

English

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

Translations

Verb

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

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

Derived terms