bookmark

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   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.

2. 2
   noun

   a marker (a piece of paper or ribbon) placed between the pages of a book to mark the reader's place

3. 3
   noun

   A record of the address of a file or Internet page, serving as a shortcut to it.

4. 4
   noun

   A pointer found in a nonclustered index to a row in a clustered index or a table heap

5. 5
   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”).