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Definitions: Earmark |
EarmarkNoun1. Identification mark on the ear of a domestic animal. 2. A distinctive characteristic or attribute. Verb1. Give or assign a share of money or time to a particular person or cause; "I will earmark this money for your research". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: EarmarkSynonyms: hallmark (n), stylemark (n), trademark (n), allow (v), appropriate (v), reserve (v), set aside (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Indication | Put an indication, put a mark; Noun: note, mark, stamp, earmark; blaze; label, ticket, docket; dot, spot, score, dash, trace, chalk; print; imprint, impress; engrave, stereotype. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Earmark |
| English words defined with "earmark": allow, appropriate ♦ Earmarked, Earmarking ♦ Lugmark ♦ reserve ♦ set aside. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | In November 1999, the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) decided to earmark a USD 310 million fund for developing biotechnology parks. (references) | |
Children | Costa Rica | The 7 percent earmark for the PANI was not included in the government budget. (references) |
Costa Rica | In June the Constitutional Court ordered the Government to pay the PANI funds from the 7 percent earmark. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Earmark" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 92.86% of the time. "Earmark" is used about 14 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 92.86% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 7.14% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 14 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "earmark": earmark-muffs. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
earmark | 16 |
audio car earmark | 10 |
audio earmark | 2 |
earmark record | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "earmark"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | tipar dallues (characteristic, trademark), shenjë (accent, aim, auspice, Beck, brand, butt, cue, denotation, denotement, ensign, evidence, exponent, fleck, foretoken, impress, index, indication, insignia, Mark, marking, obelisk, obelus, office, omen, pledge, pointer, portent, presage, prognostication, scratch, seal, sign, signal, stamp, symbol, symptom, tally, target, token, vestige, Wale, weal), shënoj (aim, arrow, book, calendar, catalogue, chalk, charge, commit to paper, denote, indicate, itemize, jot down, kick, Mark, note, note down, pencil, post, punch, put down, record, remark, score, scribe, set off, sink, tally, tick off, write down), rezervoj (bespeak, book, engage, hive, lay in, reserve), damkos (stigmatize), damkoj, damkë në vesh. (various references) | |
Arabic | وسم بأذانة, علامة مميزة (badge, diagnostic, impress, insignia, stigma), خصص (allocate, allow, appropriate, assign, consign, designate, destine, detail, devote, give, particularize, spare, specify), الأذانة سمة أذنية. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | слагам белег, белег (guide, impress, incision, marking, patent, peg, print, scar, seam, sign, snick, stigma, sully, symptom, tincture, token, trace, vestige, weal, welt), бележа (notch up, put on), прегънат ъгъл на лист в книга. (various references) | |
Chinese | 耳上记号. (various references) | |
Czech | znaèkovat (stamp), znaèka (brand, make, Mark, sign, sort, symbol), vyèlenit (detach, hive off), urèit (allocate, appoint, assign, define, design, designate, destine, determine, fix, identify, intend for, lay down, ordain, reserve, settle, state, will). (various references) | |
Danish | bestemme (destine, ordain). (various references) | |
Dutch | uittrekken (abstracting, destine, emigrate, evulsion, extraction, lengthen, ordain, put off, take off), bestemmen (destine, ordain). (various references) | |
Esperanto | destini (destine, ordain). (various references) | |
Faeroese | ætla (conjecture, destine, intend, mean, ordain, surmise). (various references) | |
Farsi | نشان هویت , نشان کردن (Sight), کنارگذاشتن (Deposit, Layaway, Overrule, Reserve, Shelf), اختصاص دادن (Allocate, Appropriate, Assign, Dedicate, Devote, Reserve). (various references) | |
Finnish | tunnusmerkki (characteristic, distinctive emblem, distinctive feature, distinguishing mark, mark, sign, sign(badge)). (various references) | |
French | destiner. (various references) | |
German | kennzeichnen (characterize, denote, designate, flag, identify, indicate, label, Mark, mark off, number plate, point out, show, signalize, signify, signpost, to denote, to earmark, to flag, to label, to mark), bestimmen (appoint, ascertain, characterize, classify, condition, decide, define, design, designate, destine, determine, fix, govern, identify, intend, lay down, locate, mark out, mean, ordain, position, prearrange, qualify, set, specify, to appoint, to designate, to destine, to determine, to intend, to ordain, type, will). (various references) | |
Hebrew | ליע" (allocate, appoint, assign, destine, ordain, reserve), סימן "יכר (recognition signal). (various references) | |
Hungarian | szamárfül (crease), fülbélyeg. (various references) | |
Indonesian | memberi tanda, ciri (characteristic, feature, sign). (various references) | |
Italian | destinare (aim, appoint, destine, devote, fix, intend, mean, ordain). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | イメージ調査 (99.999999999 percent., bad bounce, bad hop, ear protector, ear valve, earphone, earring, eleven, eleven nines, eraser, eruption, Ile de France, illegal, Illinois, illumination, illumination control, illusion, illustrated map, illustration, illustrator, image change, image survey, in, include, income, income gain, income tax, increment, incremental, incremental business, incubate, incubation, incubator, ink, inn, Iran, Iraq, iridium, irony, Iroquois, irrational, irregular, irregular bound, yearbook, year-round fashion). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | イヤマーク . (various references) | |
Manx | cur dy lieh (lay aside), cur cowrey cleayshey er, cowrey er lheh, cowrey cleayshey. (various references) | |
Papiamen | destiná (destine, ordain). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | earmarkay.(various references) | |
Polish | przeznaczyć. (various references) | |
Portuguese | destinar (appropriate, define, design, destine, determine, frame, mean, ordain, reserve). (various references) | |
Russian | тавро (brand), клеймо (brand, chop, countermark, note, seal, stamp, stigma, stigmata, trademark), отличительный признак (distinguisher, hallmark, note), накладывать клеймо, предназначать (allot, appropriate, design, destine, intend, intend for, mean, reserve). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | podvijeni ugao stranice, podvijati ugao stranice, žigosati (brand, sear, stamp, stigmatize), žig na uvetu. (various references) | |
Spanish | destino (destination, destiny, die, fate, fluke, lines, luck, portion, posting, purpose), destinar para (attach, station), asigno, asignar (allocate, allot, allow, apportion, appropriate, assign, detail, instruct, mete, settle, to allot, upgrade). (various references) | |
Swedish | reservera (engage, reserve). (various references) | |
Thai | ทำตำหนิบนใบหู (ใช้กับสัตว์). (various references) | |
Turkish | tahsis etmek (allot, assign, dedicate, devote), kulak işareti, kulağını işaretlemek, işaret (augury, badge, character, chop, clew, clue, cue, device, distinguishing mark, ensign, foretoken, gesture, glimpse, graph, harbinger, hint, index, indication, indicator, landmark, logo, logotype, marker, note, pip, prognostic, prognostication, representation, sign, signal, signature, symbol, symptom, token, touch, trace), damga (brand, cachet, cancellation, impress, impression, imprint, Mark, marker, print, seal, signature, stamp, stigma), ayırmak (abstract, allocate, allot, allow, appropriate, assort, book, choose, classify, comb, comb out, contradistinguish, cut off, cut out, demarcate, detach, devote, disband, discard, disembody, disjoin, disrupt, dissever, dissociate, distinguish, disunite, divert, divide, divorce, divorce from, except, hive off, insulate, intend for, isolate, keep apart, mark out, part, particularize, partition, partition off, pick out, portion, reduce, reserve, resolve, seclude, segregate, select, separate, sequester, set apart, set aside, sever, shut off, single out, snatch away from, snatch from, sort, sort out, spare, specialize, split, spread, spread out, sunder, sweep off, take apart, tear away, tear off, unpick, unstick, wall, winnow). (various references) | |
Ukranian | таврувати (brand, burn, cauterize, note, stigmatize), тавро на вусі, клеймити (brand), відмітна ознака, позначати (appellate, check, denominate, denote, designate, ink, tick off). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "earmark": earmarked, earmarking, earmarks. (additional references) | |
Words containing "earmark": unearmarked. (additional references) | |
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"Earmark" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aerhart, aramar, Ehrhart, Herzmark, iarmarki, Neimark, Neumark. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "earmark" (pronounced i"rmÄ'rk or ē"rmÄ'rk) |
| 4 | -m Ä' r k | benchmark, birthmark, hallmark, landmark, pockmark, postmark, trademark, watermark. |
| 3 | -Ä' r k | aardvark, ballpark, matriarch, meadowlark, monarch, oligarch, patriarch, Skylark. |
| 4 | -m Ä' r k | benchmark, birthmark, hallmark, landmark, pockmark, postmark, trademark, watermark. |
| 3 | -Ä' r k | aardvark, ballpark, matriarch, meadowlark, monarch, oligarch, patriarch, Skylark. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-k-m-r-r" | |
-1 letter: marker, remark. | |
-2 letters: armer, karma, makar, maker, raker, rearm. | |
-3 letters: arak, area, kame, maar, make, mare, mark, merk, rake, rare, ream, rear. | |
-4 letters: ama, are, ark, arm, ear, era, err, kae, kea, mae, mar, ram, rem. | |
-5 letters: aa, ae, am, ar, em, er, ka, ma, me, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-k-m-r-r" | |
+1 letter: carmaker, earmarks, warmaker. | |
+2 letters: carmakers, earmarked, rainmaker, trademark, warmakers, watermark. | |
+3 letters: earmarking, papermaker, rainmakers, remarkable, remarkably, trademarks, watermarks. | |
+4 letters: aftermarket, papermakers, phrasemaker, trademarked, unearmarked, watermarked. | |
+5 letters: aftermarkets, phrasemakers, trademarking, unremarkable, unremarkably, watermarking. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 61 72 6D 61 72 6B |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references). .- .-. -- .- .-. -.- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01100001 01110010 01101101 01100001 01110010 01101011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E a r m a r k |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0061 0072 006D 0061 0072 006B |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)39678479678477 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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