bookmark

Pronunciation: /ˈbʊkmɑːk/

The English word “bookmark” has 4 meanings listed here.

noun

A strip of material used to mark a place in a book.
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

To create a bookmark.

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”).

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