markup
NOUN · English
Experimental / limited support
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The corpus records 4 senses of markup. Each sense below has its own Add to list, so you choose the one you mean.
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Experimental coverage — measured below Partial on the number of recorded words, definitions, translations, word forms and pronunciation. Treat entries as evidence to check; meanings may be incomplete.
English is Experimental in Words. Support is measured, not declared: a language reaches Partial only when every measure meets its threshold, and a measure that has not been taken does not count. The development corpus holds 60 source-backed words in English. What is shown may be incomplete, and pronunciation audio, generated forms and generated examples are not offered.
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Definition: The percentage or amount by which a seller hikes up their buy-in price when determining their selling price. From a source of medium confidence.
countable · uncountable
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- You don’t make much money selling gas because the markup is so low. Usage example — not an attested quotation.
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Definition: An increase in price. From a source of medium confidence.
countable · uncountable
No translation has been attempted for this sense.
- There will be a markup on those products next week; better buy them now. Usage example — not an attested quotation.
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Definition: The notation that is used to indicate the meaning of the elements in an electronic document, or to dictate how text should be displayed. From a source of medium confidence.
countable · uncountable
No translation has been attempted for this sense.
- For example, a filename of “home.html” would be appropriate for an ASCII/text file containing HTML markup. 1996, Bebo White, HTML and the Art of Authoring for the World Wide Web, Springer, →ISBN, page 25:
- You can display the icon on any site you offer your software for download using the following markup[…] 2003, “Creative Commons GNU GPL”, in Creative Commons, archived from the original on 22 Jun 2009:
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Definition: The process by which proposed legislation is debated and amended. From a source of medium confidence.
US · countable · uncountable
No translation has been attempted for this sense.
No example is recorded for this sense.
No paradigm has been compiled for this word yet.
Etymology: Deverbal from mark up. From a source of medium confidence.
No related word is recorded for this word.