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Earmarked vs Bookmark - What's the difference?

earmarked | bookmark |

As verbs the difference between earmarked and bookmark

is that earmarked is (earmark) while bookmark is (computing|transitive) to create a bookmark.

As a noun bookmark is

a strip of material used to mark a place in a book.

earmarked

English

Verb

(head)
  • (earmark)

  • earmark

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To mark (as of sheep) by slitting the ear.
  • (by extension) To specify or set aside for a particular purpose.
  • You can donate to the organization as a whole, or you can earmark your contribution for a particular project.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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
  • Money is said to have no earmark .
  • * Burrow
  • A set of intellectual ideas have earmarks upon them, no tokens of a particular proprietor.

    Coordinate terms

    * (US politics) phonemark

    References

    * http://m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?earmark

    See also

    * expenditure * porkbarrel

    bookmark

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (computing) To create a bookmark.
  • Derived terms

    * unbookmarked