Norwegian

Proper noun

Marker

1. A municipality in Østfold, Norway

English

Noun

marker ‎(plural markers)

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.
3. A real or virtual objective, something to be aimed for.
   • 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.

4. A felt-tipped pen.

   Susie used a marker to write her name on the wall.‎

5. (colloquial) Marks of ink left by this type of pen.

   Susie has gotten marker all over the walls, and it looks dreadful.‎

6. (US, slang) A signed note of a debt to be paid.
7. (US, 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.

8. (paintball) A device that fires a paintball.
9. (sports)
   1. A defending player who stays close to an opponent in order to mark them.
      • 2012 April 21, Jonathan Jurejko, “Newcastle 3-0 Stoke”, in BBC Sport:

        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.

   2. (dated) A player employed by a private club and available to compete against members.
      • 1903 Eustace Miles Racquets, tennis, and squash p.39 (New York: Appleton & Co.)

        The Court itself, with its rent, the wages of the Marker and the tips to the Marker, the rackets and the balls, the baths and the flannels and the washing of the flannels, do much to account for the costliness of play.

      • 1904 "Squash and Racquets" in Frederick George Aflalo ed. The sportsman's book for India p.519 (London: Horace Marshall & Son)

        Some of the native markers attain to great skill, and the brilliant success in London of " Jamsetjee " the Bombay professional affords sufficient testimony to their capabilities.

      • 1904 "A Foreign Resident" (George Washburn Smalley and Thomas Hay Sweet Escott) "Where Wit, Wealth and Empire Meet" Society in the new reign p.76 (London: T Fisher Unwin)

        Of his victories over the curate at this game he is as proud as are others of his sex and cloth, not being old maids, of their mastery of "side" at billiards, and of an occasional victory over the club marker at evens.

      • 2016 June 1, “MR. A. F. WILDING'S TOUR.”, in New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13453, page 7:

        I played seven sets of doubles with Mitchell (the second best player in Ceylon) and David, the native marker.

10. A gene or DNA sequence with a known location on a chromosome that can be used to identify individuals or species.
11. (In competition law) A recognition given by a competition authority that a company is the first to approach it to reveal the existence of a cartel, as a prelude to a formal application for leniency for the company.

Synonyms

• (felt-tipped pen): marker pen

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

marker ‎(third-person singular simple present markers, present participle markering, simple past and past participle markered)

1. To mark or write on (something) using a marker
   • 2002 July 5, Mike Sula, “Everything Must Go”, in Chicago Reader:

     On one page someone has markered: "Remember, you are your own best thing."

Anagrams

• Kramer
• remark, re-mark

Danish

Noun

marker c

1. plural indefinite of mark

Verb

marker or markér

1. imperative of markere

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

marker m

marker m, f

1. indefinite plural of mark (Etymologies 1 & 2)

Verb

marker or markér

1. imperative of markere

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

marker f

1. plural indefinite of mark (Etymology 2)

Verb

marker or markér

1. imperative of markere

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmar.kɛr/

Noun

marker m inan

1. marker pen, sharpie
2. (paintball) device that fires a paintball

Declension

Swedish

Noun

marker

1. indefinite plural of mark