different between device vs marker

English

Etymology

From Old French devis, from Latin divisus, past participle of dividere (“to divide”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??va?s/
• Rhymes: -a?s

Noun

device (plural devices)

1. Any piece of equipment made for a particular purpose, especially a mechanical or electrical one.
   • 1949. Geneva Convention on Road Traffic Chapter VI. Provisions Applicable to Cycles in International Traffic

     Every cycle shall be equipped with: [...] (b) an audible warning device consisting of a bell [...]
2. (computer hardware) A peripheral device; an item of hardware.
3. A project or scheme, often designed to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice.

   • His device is against Babylon, to destroy it.

   • He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.

   • 1827 Hallam, Henry, The English Constitution, Harper

     Their recent device of demanding benevolences.
4. (Ireland) An improvised explosive device, home-made bomb
   • 1979 Stiff Little Fingers, "Suspect Device":

     Inflammable material is planted in my head / It's a suspect device that's left 2000 dead

   • 2014 September 3, Cliodhna Russell, The Journal "A viable device was found in Cavan today, it has now been made safe"

     THE ARMY BOMB Disposal Team rendered safe a viable device in Cavan this afternoon.

   • 2014 August 3, Louise Kelly & Conor Feehan "Suspect device found at shopping centre revealed as hoax" Irish Independent

     The army bomb squad carried out two controlled explosions on the device. It was later found that the suspect device was a hoax and not a viable explosive.

5. (rhetoric) A technique that an author or speaker uses to evoke an emotional response in the audience; a rhetorical device.
7. (heraldry) A motto, emblem, or other mark used to distinguish the bearer from others. A device differs from a badge or cognizance primarily because as it is a personal distinction, and not a badge borne by members of the same house successively.
   • 1736. O'Callaghan, Edmund Bailey. The Documentary History of the State of New York Chapter I, Article III: Enumeration of the Indian Tribes.

     The devices of these savages are the serpent, the Deer, and the Small Acorn.

8. (archaic) Power of devising; invention; contrivance.
   • 1824. Landor, Walter Savage "King Henry IV and Sir Arnold Savage" from Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen, page 44

     Moreover I must have instruments of mine own device, weighty, and exceeding costly

   • 1976. The Eagles, "Hotel California"

     And she said,

     "We are all prisoners here,

     Of our own device"

9. (law) An image used in whole or in part as a trademark or service mark.
10. (printing) An image or logo denoting official or proprietary authority or provenience.
    • 1943 United States Post Office Department. A Description of United States Postage Stamps / Issued by the Post Office Department from July 1, 1847, to April 1, 1945 [sic], USGPO, Washington, p1:

      Prior to the issuance of the first stamps, letters accepted by postmasters for dispatch were marked "Paid" by means of pen and ink or hand stamps of various designs. [...] To facilitate the handling of mail matter, some postmasters provided special stamps or devices for use on letters as evidence of the prepayment of postage.

11. (obsolete) A spectacle or show.
12. (obsolete) Opinion; decision.

Synonyms

• (piece of equipment): apparatus, appliance, equipment, gadget, design, contrivance
• (project or scheme): scheme, project, stratagem, artifice
• (obsolete, power of devising): invention, contrivance

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Translations

Slovene

Noun

device

1. genitive singular of devica
2. nominative plural of devica
3. accusative plural of devica

English

Etymology

From mark +? -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m??(?)k?(?)/
• Rhymes: -??(r)k?(r)

Noun

marker (plural markers)

1. An object used to mark a location.
2. Someone or something that marks.
   1. One who keeps account of a game played, as of billiards.
   2. A counter used in card games and other games.
   3. The soldier who forms the pilot of a wheeling column, or marks the direction of an alignment.
   4. An attachment to a sewing machine for marking a line on the fabric by creasing it.
   5. (Britain) A person who assesses the standard of a student in a test or examination.
3. A real or virtual objective, something to be aimed for.
   • 2013, Phil McNulty, "Man City 4-1 Man Utd", BBC Sport, 22 September 2013:

     Pellegrini insisted this was a game City had to win - this they did and with the sort of performance that put down a marker for how the Chilean wants his team to play.

4. A felt-tipped pen.

   Synonym: marker pen

5. (colloquial) Marks of ink left by this type of pen.

6. (US, slang) A signed note of a debt to be paid.
7. (US, slang, figuratively) A nonmonetary debt owed to someone, especially in return for a favor.

   We may not be able to do this alone. Maybe it’s time to call in some of our markers.

8. (paintball) A device that fires a paintball.
9. (sports)
   1. A defending player who stays close to an opponent in order to mark them.
   2. (dated) A player employed by a private club and available to compete against members.
      • 1903 Eustace Miles Racquets, tennis, and squash p.39 (New York: Appleton & Co.)

        The Court itself, with its rent, the wages of the Marker and the tips to the Marker, the rackets and the balls, the baths and the flannels and the washing of the flannels, do much to account for the costliness of play.

      • 1904 "Squash and Racquets" in Frederick George Aflalo ed. The sportsman's book for India p.519 (London: Horace Marshall & Son)

        Some of the native markers attain to great skill, and the brilliant success in London of " Jamsetjee " the Bombay professional affords sufficient testimony to their capabilities.

      • 1904 "A Foreign Resident" (George Washburn Smalley and Thomas Hay Sweet Escott) "Where Wit, Wealth and Empire Meet" Society in the new reign p.76 (London: T Fisher Unwin)

        Of his victories over the curate at this game he is as proud as are others of his sex and cloth, not being old maids, of their mastery of "side" at billiards, and of an occasional victory over the club marker at evens.
10. (biology) A gene or DNA sequence with a known location on a chromosome that can be used to identify individuals or species.
    • 2012, N Manikanda Boopathi, Genetic Mapping and Marker Assisted Selection: Basics, Practice and Benefits, Springer Science & Business Media (?ISBN), page 88:

      Markers are mapped relative to one another on chromosomes and used as signposts against which to map genes of interest that are linked with marker. This process of finding the linked markers/genes is referred to as grouping.

11. (biology, medicine) A substance used as a diagnostic indicator or for other analysis; a biomarker.
12. (competition law) A recognition given by a competition authority that a company is the first to approach it to reveal the existence of a cartel, as a prelude to a formal application for leniency for the company.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

marker (third-person singular simple present markers, present participle markering, simple past and past participle markered)

1. To mark or write on (something) using a marker

References

• “marker”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

Anagrams

• Kramer, re-mark, remark

Danish

Etymology 1

See the etymology of the main entry.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mark?r/, [?m?????]

Noun

marker c

1. indefinite plural of mark

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /marke??r/, [m??k?e???]

Verb

marker or markér

1. imperative of markere

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

marker m

marker m or f

1. indefinite plural of mark (Etymologies 1 & 2)

Verb

marker or markér

1. imperative of markere

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

marker f

1. indefinite plural of mark (Etymology 2)

Verb

marker or markér

1. imperative of markere

Polish

Etymology

From English marker.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mar.k?r/

Noun

marker m inan

1. marker pen, sharpie
2. (biology) marker (gene or DNA sequence with a known location)
3. (paintball) device that fires a paintball

Declension

Further reading

• marker in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• marker in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Swedish

Noun

marker

1. indefinite plural of mark

Anagrams

• kamrer