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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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.
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences A record of the address of a file or Internet page, serving as a shortcut to it.
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Computing, Databases, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences A pointer found in a nonclustered index to a row in a clustered index or a table heap
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”).