different between sticker vs earmark

English

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

stick (“to pierce, to be fastened, to adhere”) +? -er (“agent”)

Noun

sticker (plural stickers)

1. Something or someone that sticks (pierces, or adheres).
   • 1918, Decisions of the Courts of Pennsylvania (Supreme, Superior and Common Pleas), in Workmen's Compensation Cases, page 158:

     […] and I said to Mr. McCauley, whatever is the matter with your neck, it is all swelled up, and he said he got it in the mill; he said he had an arm load of wool and a sticker stuck him in the neck, here (indicating the right hand side of the neck just below the jaw).

   • 1982, Fernando Alegria, Fernando Alegría, Chilean Writers in Exile: Eight Short Novels

     The prisoner fell flat on his face. They dragged him again, this time towards the grove of calafates. They lifted him up there and they threw him in the middle of the bushes. The boy screamed. Thousands of stickers pierced into his flesh.

   • 2010, Valerie Estelle Frankel, From Girl to Goddess: The Heroine's Journey through Myth and Legend, McFarland (?ISBN), page 212:

     When the prickly pear stickers pierced their paws they howled with pain, but they kept running. Sinopa, who hated the fighting, had followed her brothers. She shot a magic arrow over their heads, which pushed the brothers to safety, […]

   • 2013, Cathy McDavid, Cowboy for Keeps, Harlequin (?ISBN), page 118:

     He toppled backward, landing on a particularly large cholla and crying out as hundreds of stickers pierced his flesh.

2. One who sticks to something, or does not give up; a stayer.
   • 1930, The Strand Magazine (volume 80, page 321)

     He's a sticker. He was a goer to the end in all he did — and in Rugger outstandingly […]

3. An adhesive label or decal.
4. A price tag.
5. (by extension) The listed price (also sticker price).

6. (Internet) A cartoonish illustration of a character that represents an emotion or action, often accompanied by text, that may be superimposed on a digital image.
7. (informal) A burr or seed pod that catches in fur or clothing.
8. (colloquial, dated) That which causes one to stick; that which puzzles or poses.

   • "That's what I call a sticker for Wagg!"

9. A wooden strip placed between courses of lumber to allow air circulation (also kiln sticker).
10. (music) A small wooden rod in an organ which connects (in part) a key and a pallet, so as to communicate motion by pushing.
11. A brand, label, or company, especially one making and distributing records.
12. (US, politics) A paster.

Derived terms

• stickery
• Tipper sticker

Translations

References

• sticker in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• sticker in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• “sticker” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.

Verb

sticker (third-person singular simple present stickers, present participle stickering, simple past and past participle stickered)

1. To apply one or more stickers to (something)
2. To mark as the sticker price

Etymology 2

stick (“sticky”, adjective) +? -er (“comparative”)

Adjective

sticker

1. (nonstandard, informal) comparative form of stick: more stick (stickier).

   A sticker type of glue that always stays sticky.

Anagrams

• restick, rickets, tickers

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English sticker.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?st?.k?r/
• Rhymes: -?k?r
• Hyphenation: stic?ker

Noun

sticker m (plural stickers, diminutive stickertje n)

1. sticker (adhesive decal)

   Synonym: plakplaatje

Derived terms

• bumpersticker
• prijssticker
• stickeralbum
• stickerboek
• stickervel
• waarschuwingssticker

Hunsrik

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??tik?/

Adverb

sticker

1. about, approximately

Further reading

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /es?tike?/, [es?t?i.ke?]

Noun

sticker m (plural stickers or sticker)

1. sticker

Swedish

Verb

sticker

1. present tense of sticka.

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