Marking may refer to:

Symbols

Marking may refer to human-made

symbol A symbol is a mark, Sign (semiotics), sign, or word that indicates, signifies, or is understood as representing an idea, physical object, object, or wikt:relationship, relationship. Symbols allow people to go beyond what is known or seen by cr ...

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annotation An annotation is extra information associated with a particular point in a document or other piece of information. It can be a note that includes a comment or explanation. Annotations are sometimes presented Marginalia, in the margin of book page ...

s 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 Card marking is the process of altering playing cards in a method only apparent to marker or conspirator, such as by bending or adding visible marks to a card. This allows different methods for card sharps to Cheating in poker, cheat or for magic ...

, 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 Lamb marking is the term applied to the procedure of Earmark (agriculture), earmarking, Castration#Other_animals, castration and Docking_(animal)#Sheep, tail-docking of the lambs of domestic sheep. Vaccination is usually carried out then, too. She ...

, 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 Surveillance is the monitoring of behavior, many activities, or information for the purpose of information gathering, influencing, managing, or directing. This can include observation from a distance by means of electronic equipment, such as ...

analysis Analysis (: analyses) is the process of breaking a complex topic or substance into smaller parts in order to gain a better understanding of it. The technique has been applied in the study of mathematics and logic since before Aristotle (38 ...

* 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 In linguistics and social sciences, markedness is the state of standing out as nontypical or divergent as opposed to regular or common. In a marked–unmarked relation, one term of an opposition is the broader, dominant one. The dominant defau ...

, 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: ** Man-to-man marking ** Zonal marking * 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 *

, 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