bookmark

«bookmark» in Mova's school dictionary: a strip of card, paper or ribbon you put in a book to… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a bookmark, bookmarks); verb (bookmark, bookmarks, bookmarked, bookmarking)

meaning for a pupil

1) A bookmark is a strip of card, paper or ribbon you put in a book to show where you stopped reading. tree →

2) A bookmark on a computer or phone is a saved link to a website so you can find it again quickly. tree →

3) To bookmark is to save a web page in this way. tree →

sense in the lessons

In reading and library lessons, children use bookmarks instead of folding page corners, which damages books. In computing lessons, pupils bookmark useful websites for research. In art, children make bookmarks as gifts. Phrases: «make a bookmark», «bookmark a page».

examples

• I put a bookmark in my book before bed. tree →
• Don't fold the page; use a bookmark. tree →
• We made bookmarks for Mother's Day. tree →
• Bookmark this website so you can find it again. tree →
• My bookmark fell out and I lost my place. tree →
• The library gave us free bookmarks. tree →
• I bookmarked the page about volcanoes. tree →
• The bookmark has a tassel at the end. tree →

note

Countable; one word. Past form: bookmarked. A bookmark saves a link, not the page itself, so if the website changes, the page may change too.

In the corpora

• A library book is kept dry, clean and away from food, and you use a bookmark instead of folding pages.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «bookmark» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.