Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A strip of material, as of ribbon or leather, or a metal clamp, that is placed between the pages of a book to mark the reader's place.
- noun A record of a selected webpage or URL kept by a program such as a web browser or help utility. Bookmarks allow the user to find and return to a selected site by clicking an easily recognizable link.
- transitive verb To make a bookmark for (a webpage or URL).
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A ribbon or other device placed between the pages of a book, to mark a place where reading is to begin, or to which reference is to be made.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Something placed in a book to guide in finding a particular page or passage; also, a label in a book to designate the owner; a bookplate.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A strip of material used to
mark a place in abook . - noun computing A record of the address of a
file orInternet page serving as ashortcut to it. - noun databases A
pointer found in anonclustered index to arow in aclustered index or atable heap - verb computing, transitive To create a bookmark.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a marker (a piece of paper or ribbon) placed between the pages of a book to mark the reader's place
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Examples
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But my definition of a "bookmark" is very wide - basically anything I can use to stick in the book and mark my place counts.
Angels' Blood Countdown: Nancy Haddock - La Vida Vampire Nalini Singh 2009
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To clarify, check the screenshot above to how I set up a keyword bookmark for Lifehacker would look like.
How To Set Keyword Bookmarks In Google Chrome | Lifehacker Australia 2010
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The smart bookmark is a kind of saved search -- "These codes can range from simple queries to a string that will search a domain and give you the latest stories, or simply those related to a keyword." - but it's complicated.
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Slivers of bone in the spine, and the bookmark is made of bleached human hair.
Superhero Prose Fiction: Related - Shadows Bend Blue Tyson 2008
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Reader Gilles writes in with an interesting tip: You can use a keyword bookmark to quickly post something to Twitter from the address bar in any browser.
Update Twitter With A Keyword Bookmark | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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The construction of an isometric bookmark is straightforward: take an index card and cut it in half draw a line from the center to one of the corners, as illustrated below
Isomorphic Bookmarks (for books) Jonathan Aquino 2007
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The construction of an isometric bookmark is straightforward: take an index card and cut it in half draw a line from the center to one of the corners, as illustrated below
Archive 2007-07-01 Jonathan Aquino 2007
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Create a keyword bookmark for the mailto: prefix, maybe something along the lines of em or just e.
Compose New Emails Quickly From Firefox | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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The AdWords as bookmark is certainly an interesting point.
Click fraud is nothing more than fear mongering. « The Paradigm Shift 2006
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For those who don't know, Easton Press publishes hoity-toity, leather-bound version of books with gilded pages and a built-in bookmark ribbon.
Book Store Splurge 2005
chained_bear commented on the word bookmark
I was wondering, last night, when in the course of human events this word will become as archaic and weird-sounding as, say, firkin. Will people one day wonder why those things you put on "favorite" lists in your web browser are called "bookmarks"? Will the Wordies of two centuries from now argue about its origins and etymology?
October 31, 2007
uselessness commented on the word bookmark
Books will dwindle, but I doubt people will ever forget about them entirely...
October 31, 2007
john commented on the word bookmark
Interesting thought. I agree with uselessness, but even if books go away they'll persist like ghosts in our language, unnoticed. The way we all know what it is to be "on tenterhooks", without having any idea what a tenterhook is.
October 31, 2007
sonofgroucho commented on the word bookmark
Isn't dwindle a lovely word?
October 31, 2007
reesetee commented on the word bookmark
Books won't go away. They smell too good when they're new. :-)
C_b, somewhere on Wordie (can't remember exactly where--anyone?), a few of us had a discussion similar to this about words that have acquired new meanings now that computers are ubiquitous. I remember some Wordies saying that they never had to physically "cut" or "paste" anything while writing/editing--although I vividly remember doing so myself.
November 1, 2007
uselessness commented on the word bookmark
Check out above the fold, and don't forget that comments are searchable now. ;-)
November 1, 2007
rocksinmypockets commented on the word bookmark
Books smell good when they're old, too. :)
November 1, 2007
reesetee commented on the word bookmark
Thanks, uselessness! I did forget. *slaps forehead*
November 1, 2007
reesetee commented on the word bookmark
They do, rocks, but they smell very different from new ones. Especially the leatherbound old ones. :-)
November 1, 2007