bookmark
noun
- thin marker, commonly made of card, leather, or fabric, used to keep the reader's place in a book and to enable the reader to return to it with ease
verb
- to mark and save a place (especially by using a bookmark)
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈbʊkmɑːk/ / /ˈbʊkmɑːɹk/ / /ˈbɵkmɑːk/
noun
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”).
- A strip of material used to mark a place in a book.
“He placed a bookmark on page 234, which had an interesting footnote from the author.”
- A record of the address of a file or Internet page, serving as a shortcut to it.
- A pointer found in a nonclustered index to a row in a clustered index or a table heap
verb
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”).
- To create a bookmark.