different between inscription vs earmark

English

Etymology

From Latin ?nscr?pti?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?sk??p??n/
• Rhymes: -?p??n
• Hyphenation: in?scrip?tion

Noun

inscription (countable and uncountable, plural inscriptions)

1. The act of inscribing.
2. Text carved on a wall or plaque, such as a memorial or gravestone.
3. The text on a coin.

   Synonym: legend

4. Words written in the front of a book as a dedication.

Translations

See also

• epigraph

French

Etymology

From Latin inscr?pti?, inscr?pti?nem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??s.k?ip.sj??/

Noun

inscription f (plural inscriptions)

1. registration, enrolment
2. inscription

Related terms

• inscrire

Further reading

• “inscription” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

ear +? mark

Pronunciation

Verb

earmark (third-person singular simple present earmarks, present participle earmarking, simple past and past participle earmarked)

1. (transitive) To mark (as of sheep) by slitting the ear.
2. (transitive, by extension) To specify or set aside for a particular purpose, to allocate.

Synonyms

• (set aside for a particular purpose): appropriate, sepose; see also Thesaurus:set apart

Translations

Noun

earmark (plural earmarks)

1. A mark or deformation of the ear of an animal, intended to indicate ownership.
2. (US, politics) The designation of specific projects in appropriations of funding for general programs.
3. A mark for identification; a distinguishing mark.
   • 1860, John Wharton, The Law Lexicon

     Money has no earmark.

   • 1959, Brunettie Burrow, Angels in White

     I saw in my patient one of the most forbidding men I have ever met. He had all the earmarks of a criminal.

Coordinate terms

• (US politics): phonemark

Translations

See also

• expenditure
• pork barrel

References

• http://m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?earmark