bookmarkn.
/ˈbʊkmɑːk/, U.S. /ˈbʊkˌmɑrk/ 1. A strip of card, leather, ribbon, or other material, inserted between the pages of a book to mark a place; esp. an item made specifically for this purpose, often with a decorative design. Also in extended use. Cf. bookmarker n. at book n. Compounds 3.
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society > communication > book > parts of book > [noun] > bookmark
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1833 A. Manning Village Belles III. xvii. 242 A letter serving as a book-mark to Cymbeline, was directed to Mr. Russell.
1852 Internat. Mag. Lit., Art, & Sci. 5 101 ‘One you have read, of course,’ replied Mrs. Dale, putting a book-mark embroidered by herself into the page.
1884 Cent. Mag. Dec. 276/1 She said that paper warn't anything but a book-mark to keep her place.
1906 J. Jastrow Subconscious i. x. 141 When we fall asleep or interrupt our labors, we carry in mind the bookmark that tells us where we left off; it is recognized as the same piece of work, to be resumed by the same worker.
1963 J. Fishman My Darling Clementine xviii. 365 A miniature Blue Garter Sash, with the initials ‘W.S.C.’..embroidered on it..was the bookmark.
1999 Needlecraft Mar. 68/1 This brand new design from Textile Heritage features three checked hearts and a traditional Shaker saying on a length of aida band which turns into a bookmark.
2010 Wired May 14/4 He made a mental bookmark. ‘I wanted to use the idea for something’, he says.
2. A mark or label placed in or on a book to indicate ownership; a bookplate. Now rare.
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1876 H. E. Scudder in Public Libraries U.S.A.: Special Rep.: Pt. I (Dept. Interior, Bureau Educ.) i. 28 Several months ago I saw in Prince Edward County two folio volumes with the bookmark of Dr. Blair.
1880 J. L. Warren Guide Study Book-plates ii. 14 Insigne librorum..means simply the book-mark.
1927 A. B. Hart Commonw. Hist. Mass. xiii. 365 It has a printed bookmark, stating that it ‘belongs to the New England Library, begun to be collected by Thomas Prince’.
1936 William & Mary Coll. Q. Hist. Mag. 16 455 His..library [was] scattered by the contending armies... A friend, visiting Philadelphia, remarked on a centretable [sic] there, one of his valuable books, containing his book-mark.
3. Computing. A record of the location of a document or of a place within a document, made to allow quick access; (in later use) esp. a record of the address of a particular web page, typically stored within a web browser.
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1982 Byte June 55/2 Other commands include..‘bookmark’ commands that switch from computer control to manual control and resume again where the user had previously left off.
1988 Communications ACM 31 885/1 Readers need a ‘smart’ bookmark that keeps their place within the hypertext when their reading is interrupted.
1995 Multimedia Today Apr. 18/1 Most Web browsers allow you to create bookmarks for interesting Web pages.
2005 Computerworld 18 Apr. 31/2 Because the bookmarks are on the Web rather than within a single instance of a browser, they can be accessed from any computer with an Internet connection.
2013 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 28 Nov. b1 Users can install the wish list button as a bookmark, which should work with any browser.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
bookmarkv.
/ˈbʊkmɑːk/, U.S. /ˈbʊkˌmɑrk/ Chiefly Computing.
transitive. To mark a location in (a book) with a bookmark. In later use chiefly Computing: to create a bookmark in (an electronic document) or for (a web page). Also intransitive.
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1959 A. Sillitoe Loneliness of Long-distance Runner 156 A Holy Bible bookmarked with tapes and paper.
1985 PC (Nexis) 5 Mar. 133 Any program executing when the ‘dir’ key is pressed is ‘bookmarked’..and resumes when ‘dir’ is pressed again.
1991 Computer Shopper (Nexis) July 702 Sections..can be expanded and ‘bookmarked’, so that you can return to them easily.
1996 Internet World Sept. 72/2 The tendency when Web surfing is to bookmark and run.
2006 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 16 Nov. 25/1 This is one of the most professional and interesting Web sites that you could possibly bookmark on your browser.
2011 Business Insider (Nexis) 10 June The Kindle even provides great tools for bookmarking pages.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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