Marking
Look up marking in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Marking may refer to:
Symbols
Marking may refer to human-made symbols and annotations in several contexts:
On vehicles
- Aircraft marking
 - Emergency vehicle equipment markings
- Battenburg markings, emergency vehicle patterns
 
 - Vehicle markings of the United States military
 - Police vehicle markings (US/Canada)
 - Sail Class Markings, figures placed on the sail of sailing boats to mark the boat type
 - Semi-trailer truck marking lights
 
On other manufactured goods
- Card marking, altering playing cards in secret for use in magic tricks or cheating
 - Conductor marking lights, power line markers
 - Direct part marking, a process to mark parts with product information
 - Photographic film markings
 - Road surface marking, such as lines or words, or the stripes of a zebra crossing on a road surface
 - UID-marking, permanent marking used by the US Department of Defense
 
Other symbols
- Grading (education), evaluation of the performance of a student
 - Lamb marking, a process of earmarking, castration and tail-docking of the lambs of domestic sheep
 - Postal marking, annotation applied to a letter by a postal service
 - Road surface marking, such as lines or words, or the stripes of a zebra crossing on a road surface
 - Territorial marking, a behavior used by animals to identify their territory
 - Trail blazing, marks in outdoor areas that indicate the direction of a trail
 - The process of assigning priorities to objects of interest, for the purposes of targeting, surveillance or analysis
 - Timber marking, selecting the trees to be cut in a forest stand by marking them with a marking axe
 
Linguistics
- Marker (linguistics), a free or bound morpheme that indicates the grammatical function of the marked word, phrase, or sentence
 - Markedness, the state of standing out as unusual or divergent in comparison to a more common or regular form
 
People
- Havana Marking, British producer and director of documentary films
 
Sports
- Marking (association football), assigning a defender to a certain offensive player:
 - Mark (Australian football), the action of catching an airborne kicked ball in Australian rules football
 
Other uses
- Animal markings, such as the spots of a leopard or horse markings
 - Lamb marking, a process of earmarking, castration and tail-docking of the lambs of domestic sheep
 - Jehovah's Witnesses "marking", withdrawing of close association from a congregant according to Thessalonians 3:14
 - Sole markings, a type of sedimentary structure
 - Trace evidence, in forensic science
 - Vägmärken (Markings), a book by Dag Hammarskjold
 
See also
- All pages with titles beginning with Marking
 - All pages with titles containing Marking
 - Marking gauge
 - Marking knife
 - Marking out
 - Marking scheme
 - Marking Time (disambiguation)
 - Mark (disambiguation)