bookmark

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English *boke-merk, *boke-merke (attested only in the bare form merk (“bookmark”)), equivalent to book +‎ mark. Cognate with Danish bogmærke (“bookmark”), Swedish bokmärke (“bookmark”), Norwegian bokmerke (“bookmark”), Icelandic bókamerki (“bookmark”). Eclipsed non-native Old English æstel (“bookmark”), from Old Irish astal, from Latin hastula (“little spear, splint”). === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈbʊkmɑːk/ (General American) IPA(key): /ˈbʊkmɑːɹk/ (Standard Southern British) IPA(key): /ˈbɵkmɑːk/ (some Northern England, especially Northumbria) IPA(key): /ˈbuːkmɑːk/ (Scotland) IPA(key): /ˈbʉkmaɾk/ (Northern Ireland) IPA(key): /ˈbʉkmaɹk/ === Noun === bookmark (plural bookmarks) A strip of material used to mark a place in a book. Synonym: bookmarker (computing) A record of the address of a file or Internet page, serving as a shortcut to it. Synonym: favourites (databases) A pointer found in a nonclustered index to a row in a clustered index or a table heap ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Verb === bookmark (third-person singular simple present bookmarks, present participle bookmarking, simple past and past participle bookmarked) (computing, transitive) To create a bookmark. ==== Derived terms ====