bookmark

Pluralbookmarks

Formsbookmarks, bookmarking, bookmarked

1. 1
   nouncountable

   A small strip of paper or other material that holds your place in a book.

   Like a little flag that shows where you stopped reading.

   She slipped a bookmark between the pages so she could find her spot later.

   He used an old movie ticket as a bookmark.

   Similarbookmarker

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2. 2
   nouncountable

   A saved link that lets you quickly return to a website or file.

   Like writing a phone number down so you can call again without searching.

   I saved a bookmark for the recipe so I could find it again.

   Click the star to add a bookmark for this page.

   Similarfavourites

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3. 3
   verbtransitive

   To save a link to a website or file so you can open it again quickly.

   Like saving a friend's number so you don't have to look it up again.

   I bookmark every article I want to read later.

   She bookmarked the page before closing her laptop.

   Similarsave

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4. 4
   nouncountable

   In a database, a link that points from one index to the exact spot where a row of data is stored.

   Like a tag that tells you the exact shelf where something is kept.

   The database uses a bookmark to jump straight to the right row.

   Each entry in the index keeps a bookmark to its data row.

   Similarpointer

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