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marker | barker |

As a verb marker

is .

As a proper noun barker is

a botanical plant name author abbreviation for botanist george barker (1776-1845).

marker

English

(wikipedia marker)

Noun

(en noun)
  • An object used to mark a location.
  • Someone or something that marks.
  • # One who keeps account of a game played, as of billiards.
  • # A counter used in card games and other games.
  • # The soldier who forms the pilot of a wheeling column, or marks the direction of an alignment.
  • # An attachment to a sewing machine for marking a line on the fabric by creasing it.
  • * 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.
  • A felt-tipped pen.
  • (slang) A signed note of a debt to be paid.
  • (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 .
  • (paintball) A device that fires a paintball
  • (sports) A defending player who stays close to an opponent in order to mark them.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=April 21 , author=Jonathan Jurejko , title=Newcastle 3-0 Stoke , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=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.}}
  • A gene or DNA sequence with a known location on a chromosome that can be used to identify individuals or species.
  • (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

    * biomarker * discourse marker * magic marker * man marker / man-marker * marker bed * marker gene * on-time marker * permanent marker * whiteboard marker

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To mark or write on (something) using a
  • * {{quote-news, year=2002, date=July 5, author=Mike Sula, title=Everything Must Go, work=Chicago Reader citation
    • , passage=On one page someone has markered : "Remember, you are your own best thing." }}

    Anagrams

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    barker

    English

    (wikipedia barker)

    Etymology 1

    From .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Someone or something who s.
  • A person employed to solicit customers by calling out to passersby, e.g. at a carnival.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=David Simpson
    • , volume=188, issue=26, page=36, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Fantasy of navigation , passage=Like most human activities, ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth.}}
  • A shelf-talker.
  • (video games) A video game mode where the action is demonstrated to entice someone to play the game.
  • (slang, dated) A pistol.
    • (Charles Dickens)
  • The spotted redshank.
    • Synonyms
    * spruik * tout

    Etymology 2

    From .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person that removes the from wood, or prepares it for use in tanning.
    • The profession of barker has been made largely obsolete by the introduction of more effective tanning agents, but it lives on as a surname.
  • A machine used to remove the bark from wood.
    • Run these logs through the barker so we can use them as fence posts.
    ---- ==Norwegian Bokmål==

    Noun