单词 | word mark |
释义 | word markn. 1. A (real or invented) word used as a trademark; a trademark in the form of a word (as opposed to a design, a colour, etc.). Also: a word used in a distinctive style or font as the symbol of a company, institution, etc. ΘΠ society > communication > indication > marking > marking to identify > mark of identification > [noun] > mark identifying goods merchant mark1540 merchant's mark1557 shop mark1592 skin mark1703 brand1728 chop1828 trademark1839 tally1851 scribing1859 trade name1890 word mark1902 TM1961 UPC1974 countermark- 1902 Encycl. Brit. XXXIII. 387/1 The registration of ‘word marks’ was first provided for by the Trade Marks Act, 1883. In that statute, however, clause (d) read ‘a fancy word or words not in common use’. 1920 Yale Law Jrnl. 29 306 There are different opinions as to the essence of the word-mark. 1976 Century of Trade Marks (Patent Office) i. 1/2 These were early instances of word marks, though usually in conventional form—for example, CATIM (Cati manu: from the hand of Cato), and OFALBIN (officina Albini: the workshop of Albinus)—whereas earlier marks had been almost invariably devices or ideographic symbols. 1992 Numismatist Mar. 298/1 An interesting article appeared recently in The Wall Street Journal. It had to do with a study of corporate logos, known in the jargon of the advertising world as ‘wordmarks’. 2004 Wall St. Jrnl. 11 Feb. (Central ed.) a13 (advt.) The Bluetooth word mark and logos are owned by the Bluetooth SIG, Inc. and any use of such marks by Lexus is under license. 2. Computing. A bit whose value indicates whether or not the character or location containing it is at one end of a word; a character containing such a bit. ΘΚΠ society > computing and information technology > programming language > program or code > [noun] > bit level codes > word mark word mark1962 1962 Brit. Patent 904,516 1/2 A plurality of words of variable length are stored in available locations in rows of the array, the length of each word being defined by a word mark positioned at the beginning and ending of each of said words. 1980 J. Frates Introd. Computer vi. 165 The storage location of the last piece of data will store a word mark in addition to the character to indicate to the computer that it has reached the end of that particular item of data. 2006 IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci. 53 2473/1 The other bits are used as follows:..5 bits for the number of the logic set handling the hit, 4 bits for the number of the hit silicon strip, and 1 bit for a word mark. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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