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Marker or Clapperboard, equipment used during filming; Marker, a set of sewing patterns placed over cloth to be cut; Historical marker, a plaque erected at historically significant locations; Marker pen, a felt-tipped pen; Paintball marker, or paintball gun, an air gun; Survey marker, an object placed to mark a point
Rollings (2004) uses the term "markers" for such letters. Letters may mark different types of information. For instance, e in once / ˈ w ʌ n s / indicates that the preceding c is pronounced / s / , rather than the more common value of c in word-final position as the sound / k / , such as in attic / ˈ æ t ɪ k / .
Markers should be distinguished from the linguistic concept of markedness. An unmarked form is the basic "neutral" form of a word, typically used as its dictionary lemma, such as—in English—for nouns the singular (e.g. cat versus cats), and for verbs the infinitive (e.g. to eat versus eats, ate and eaten).
A cairn is a human-made pile (or stack) of stones raised for a purpose, usually as a marker or as a burial mound. The word cairn comes from the Scottish Gaelic : càrn [ˈkʰaːrˠn̪ˠ] (plural càirn [ˈkʰaːrˠɲ] ).
Some sources distinguish "diacritical marks" (marks upon standard letters in the A–Z 26-letter alphabet) from "special characters" (letters not marked but radically modified from the standard 26-letter alphabet) such as Old English and Icelandic eth (Ð, ð) and thorn (uppercase Þ, lowercase þ), and ligatures such as Latin and Anglo-Saxon Æ (minuscule: æ), and German eszett (ß; final ...
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Grammatical abbreviations are generally written in full or small caps to visually distinguish them from the translations of lexical words. For instance, capital or small-cap PAST (frequently abbreviated to PST) glosses a grammatical past-tense morpheme, while lower-case 'past' would be a literal translation of a word with that meaning.
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