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Markdown vs Markup - What's the difference?

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Markup is a related term of markdown.



As nouns the difference between markdown and markup

is that markdown is a reduction in price in order to stimulate sales while markup is the notation that is used to indicate how text should be displayed.

markdown

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A reduction in price in order to stimulate sales

    • markup

    English

    (wikipedia markup)

    Alternative forms

    * mark-up

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The notation that is used to indicate how text should be displayed.
  • * 2003 , Creative Commons, Creative Commons GNU GPL
    • You can display the icon on any site you offer your software for download using the following markup :
  • The percentage or amount by which a seller hikes up his buy-in price when determining his selling price.
    • You don’t make much money selling gas because the markup is so low.
  • An increase in price.
    • There will be a markup on those products next week; better buy them now.

    Related terms

    * markdown * mark up

    Derived terms

    * markup language * markup rate