Bookmarked vs Earmarked - What's the difference?
bookmarked | earmarked |
(bookmark)
A strip of material used to mark a place in a book.
(computing) A record of the address of a file or Internet page serving as a shortcut to it.
(databases) A pointer found in a nonclustered index to a row in a clustered index or a table heap
(earmark)
To mark (as of sheep) by slitting the ear.
(by extension) To specify or set aside for a particular purpose.
A mark or deformation of the ear of an animal, intended to indicate ownership.
(US, politics) The designation of specific projects in appropriations of funding for general programs.
A mark for identification; a distinguishing mark.
* Wharton
* Burrow
As verbs the difference between bookmarked and earmarked
is that bookmarked is past tense of bookmark while earmarked is past tense of earmark.bookmarked
English
Verb
(head)bookmark
English
(wikipedia bookmark)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* unbookmarkedearmarked
English
Verb
(head)earmark
English
(wikipedia earmark)Verb
(en verb)- You can donate to the organization as a whole, or you can earmark your contribution for a particular project.
Noun
(en noun)- Money is said to have no earmark .
- A set of intellectual ideas have earmarks upon them, no tokens of a particular proprietor.