Markup vs Index - What's the difference?
markup | index |
The notation that is used to indicate how text should be displayed.
* 2003 , Creative Commons,
The percentage or amount by which a seller hikes up his buy-in price when determining his selling price.
An increase in price.
An alphabetical listing of items and their location.
The index finger; the forefinger.
A movable finger on a gauge, scale, etc.
(printing) A symbol resembling a pointing hand, used to direct particular attention to a note or paragraph.
That which points out; that which shows, indicates, manifests, or discloses.
* Arbuthnot
A sign; an indication; a token.
* Robert Louis Stevenson
(linguistics) A type of noun where the meaning of the form changes with respect to the context. E.g., 'Today's newspaper' is an indexical form since its referent will differ depending on the context. See also icon and symbol.
(economics) A single number calculated from an array of prices or of quantities.
(science) A number representing a property or ratio, a coefficient.
(mathematics) A raised suffix indicating a power.
(programming, computing) An integer or other key indicating the location of data e.g. within an array, vector, database table, associative array, or hash table.
(computing, databases) A data structure that improves the performance of operations on a table.
(obsolete) A prologue indicating what follows.
To arrange an index for something, especially a long text.
To inventory, to take stock.
As nouns the difference between markup and index
is that markup is the notation that is used to indicate how text should be displayed while index is an alphabetical listing of items and their location.As a verb index is
to arrange an index for something, especially a long text.As a proper noun Index is
a town in Washington.markup
English
(wikipedia markup)Alternative forms
* mark-upNoun
(en noun)Creative Commons GNU GPL
- You can display the icon on any site you offer your software for download using the following markup :
- You don’t make much money selling gas because the markup is so low.
- There will be a markup on those products next week; better buy them now.
Derived terms
* markup language * markup rateindex
English
(wikipedia index)Noun
(en-noun)- The index of a book lists words or expressions and the pages of the book upon which they are to be found.
- Tastes are the indexes of the different qualities of plants.
- His son's empty guffaws struck him with pain as the indices of a weak mind.
- (Shakespeare)